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The Ben Shapiro Show Ep. 257 - Is Trump Actually Making The Left Insane?


Summary

Trump was wrong about a phantom terror attack in Sweden, but he was correct about increased crime among Muslim immigrants in the country. Ben Shapiro explains why conservatives don t trust the media, and why they're willing to give President Trump the benefit of the doubt so long as he's talking about real problems the left refuses to contemplate. Today's guest is Ben Shapiro, host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio's "The Five" and host of the show "The Daily Wire's" "First Take" podcast, where he deconstructs the culture and culture of the far-left, and explains why Americans don't trust the mainstream media to be as objective as they should be. He also explains why the media overreacted to Trump's suggestion that there was some sort of terrible event in Sweden last Friday night, and how it's a perfect example of how the media is out of touch with the reality of what's actually going on in the real world. Ben Shapiro's show is available on most major podcast directories, including Apple Podcasts, Podcoin, and The Huffington Post. Subscribe to the show wherever you get your news and information, and don't forget to leave us a five star rating and review the show! Thanks to our sponsor, VaynerMedia! If you like what you hear, please consider becoming a patron, leaving us a review, rating and reviewing the show on iTunes, and supporting us on your favorite podcast platform! We'll be looking out for more great guests in the next episode! Subscribe, review and subscribe to our newest podcast, and we'll be giving out a special bonus episode on the next one! coming soon! Thanks again next week, Ben Shapiro and much more! - The Best of Ben Shapiro and Sarah Downey - Thank you, Sarah Gooden, Sarah Gooding Cheers, - Yours Truly, Sarah Baden-Briggs, The Best Effort, by: & Sarah Goodin, the Best of the Week, . Sarah, Sarah Goodman, , . . . , and Sarah, the Best Week Ever? ... Ben, Sarah, The Best Week Yet Again, Sarah Best, and Sarah Best? - Thank You, Sarah Green, ? And so Much, Sarah's Best Effing Gooding, etc.,


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00:00:00.000 This week, the media blew up over President Trump's allegations last Friday night at a rally that there had been some sort of terrible event in Sweden.
00:00:06.000 He said, quote, last night.
00:00:08.000 They suggested that Trump had mentioned a phantom terror attack in the same way Kellyanne Conway mentioned the Bowling Green massacre and Sean Spicer referenced a terror attack in Atlanta that never happened.
00:00:17.000 Here's what Trump actually said in his speech.
00:00:19.000 We've got to keep our country safe.
00:00:21.000 You look at what's happening in Germany.
00:00:22.000 You look at what's happening last night in Sweden.
00:00:25.000 Sweden!
00:00:26.000 Who would believe this?
00:00:27.000 Sweden!
00:00:28.000 They took in large numbers.
00:00:29.000 They're having problems they never thought possible.
00:00:33.000 This is a near perfect example of how Trumpian rhetoric polarizes the electorate.
00:00:36.000 Why?
00:00:37.000 Because Trump was wrong to say something had happened in Sweden last night.
00:00:40.000 Nothing had happened that night.
00:00:42.000 But he was absolutely right to point out increased crime problems among Muslim immigrants to Sweden.
00:00:47.000 Conservatives reacted to Trump's comments by pretending that Trump had never used the phrase last night.
00:00:51.000 Leftists pretended nothing terrible had ever happened in Sweden, ever, ever, ever.
00:00:55.000 Then, last night, actually last night, news broke of a Muslim immigrant rally.
00:00:59.000 This is from the local newspaper.
00:01:01.000 Sweden's capital was plunged into chaos on Monday as police were forced to fire at rioters after violence erupted in an area described as high risk.
00:01:08.000 The terrifying scenes took place just hours after the country's Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, slammed Donald Trump for claiming Sweden was in crisis as a result of its liberal refugee policy.
00:01:18.000 Stockholm police were forced to fire a shot into the rampaging crowd in the hard-hit suburb of Rinkby after a mob of around 30 thugs started attacking the officers with rocks.
00:01:27.000 Violence erupted after the police had tried to arrest a wanted person on the subway.
00:01:31.000 Here's the thing.
00:01:32.000 Sweden does have a serious problem with rising rates of rape correlating with increased immigration from Muslim countries.
00:01:37.000 As Joe Curl of Daily Wire points out, quote, there were 66.5 cases of reported rapes per 100,000 inhabitants last year.
00:01:45.000 That's triple, right?
00:01:46.000 It's up from 24.9 in 2003.
00:01:46.000 It's one heck of a jump.
00:01:50.000 Even ABC News was forced to acknowledge that Trump wasn't entirely wrong.
00:01:53.000 This is from ABC News.
00:01:54.000 Last year, 112,645 violent crimes were reported in Sweden, an increase from 108,739 in 2015, 108,071 in 2014, and 104,738 in 2013, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.
00:02:00.000 Those numbers include attempted murder, muggings, and rape, but not other types of sexual assault and murder, the council said.
00:02:16.000 And this is from one of the mayors of one of the towns.
00:02:18.000 He said the police reports don't have a box you tick about whether it's a Swedish citizen or an immigrant.
00:02:24.000 The council looks instead at a number of factors, according to ABC News.
00:02:27.000 The council looks at a number of social factors, including income and education, but not immigration status or ethnicity.
00:02:34.000 Trump rightly tweeted, give the public a break.
00:02:36.000 The fake news media is trying to say that large-scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully.
00:02:41.000 NOT, all capital letters, like we're in 1993.
00:02:44.000 Malmo, Sweden has turned into a hotbed for anti-Semitism thanks to rising Muslim immigration.
00:02:48.000 Here's Fox News on the rising problem of violence in Malmo.
00:02:51.000 Last month, the police chief for the southern Swedish city of Malmo issued a desperate plea for help, curtailing a plague of attempted murders, beatings, and rapes.
00:02:58.000 About 32% of Malmo's occupants are migrants, although it is not clear what role migrants play in the crime wave.
00:03:03.000 We cannot do it on our own.
00:03:04.000 Chief Stefan Sintius wrote in an open letter about the upward spiral of violence.
00:03:09.000 Malmo had 52 hand grenade attacks in 2016 alone, a jump from 48 attacks in 2015, according to figures provided by the Swedish police authority.
00:03:18.000 You want to know why conservatives don't trust the media?
00:03:20.000 It's because of media overreach, suggesting that when conservatives get a specific wrong, but the general right, the general is also wrong.
00:03:28.000 That's not an excuse for Trump to make silly mistakes, he's the president, but it does demonstrate why conservatives are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt so long as he's talking about real problems the left refuses to contemplate.
00:03:38.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:03:44.000 Okay, tons to get to on today's show.
00:03:46.000 As always, we're going to get to the emotionality of left, why they seem to be over-emotional about this election.
00:03:51.000 We're going to talk about the ongoing war between Trump and the media.
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00:05:10.000 Okay, so.
00:05:12.000 I want to talk today about the absolute mental breakdown that is apparently happening among some folks on the left because of Donald Trump's election.
00:05:20.000 And I don't mean this figuratively.
00:05:21.000 I mean this literally.
00:05:22.000 This is an article from CNN, okay?
00:05:24.000 Wally Fingsten has always been a news junkie, but since President Trump was elected, he's been so anxious about the political tumult that even just having the TV on in the background at home is unbearable.
00:05:36.000 It's been crippling, said the 35-year-old San Mateo, California resident and political moderate who has supported both Democrats and Republicans in the past.
00:05:42.000 I feel angry, really, really angry, far more angry than I expected to be.
00:05:47.000 He's tried hard, this is CNN, he's tried hard to quell his anxiety.
00:05:51.000 First, he shut down his Facebook page to limit his exposure to the daily soaking of news from Washington, but not knowing the goings-on made him nervous too.
00:05:58.000 He found himself sneaking onto Facebook in an account he made for his dog.
00:06:02.000 Oh yes, there's a fellow who made a Facebook account for his dog.
00:06:25.000 Well, I can actually personally vouch for this.
00:06:27.000 My wife, who's a doctor, says that they've been having an influx of people who are coming in with stress-induced anxiety because of the election.
00:06:34.000 There are psychiatrists who are reporting all around the state of California that they've seen their roles just dominate.
00:06:39.000 They've been going up and up.
00:06:40.000 They've never had to book patients like this because people are so upset about the election.
00:06:45.000 You know, says, in the past, therapists say it's been fairly uncommon for patients to bring up politics on the couch.
00:06:50.000 It's big money to talk about politics with me.
00:06:51.000 That's not what we do, said Maria Limberis, a psychiatrist in Santa Monica, California.
00:06:55.000 So the question becomes, why is it that the left has lost its mind about this particularly?
00:07:00.000 You remember there was Bush derangement syndrome.
00:07:01.000 They really hated George W. Bush.
00:07:03.000 They couldn't deal with the fact he was president.
00:07:04.000 But this is, it's another level.
00:07:06.000 Howard Dean, who's the former head of the Democratic National Committee, here's what he had to say about people being traumatized by the election.
00:07:13.000 Now is the intensity of the Hillary favorables becoming more intense, but it's not changing the overall numbers.
00:07:19.000 I don't hear her name lately.
00:07:21.000 Only when Trump brings it up.
00:07:22.000 No, really, not that she'll come back, but right now she should.
00:07:26.000 That is 100% right, but I'm betting what happens is these young people have been traumatized by Trump's election because it was essentially a reneging on every single value that somebody in this country under 35 has.
00:07:37.000 They were shocked.
00:07:38.000 Okay, so everybody is traumatized by the election.
00:07:41.000 James Franco, right, the overrated actor, he said that he has, this is what he said, he said, I mean, I've been reacting really badly.
00:07:49.000 I spiraled into depression.
00:07:51.000 I've been questioning everything that I am.
00:07:52.000 I wish he had questioned everything that he was before he was the Green Goblin in Spider-Man, because that was quite awful.
00:07:57.000 So the, okay, so everybody is losing their mind over Trump's election.
00:08:03.000 And now we have to discuss why that is.
00:08:04.000 So, there's no question that Donald Trump is a stressful human.
00:08:07.000 Okay?
00:08:07.000 Donald Trump is a stressful human.
00:08:09.000 He induces stress in his opponents, in his friends, in his family.
00:08:13.000 You can see, like, everybody around Trump is stressed all the time.
00:08:16.000 Trump's the only person who seems pretty sanguine about being Trump.
00:08:18.000 Like, it's kind of amusing, actually.
00:08:20.000 Donald Trump looks very happy to be him, but everyone around him looks like they're, like, they're biting through a pencil.
00:08:25.000 Like, if they had a pencil, there'd be teeth marks all over the pencil.
00:08:28.000 That's true, okay?
00:08:29.000 He says things that are wild and crazy.
00:08:32.000 He does things that are weird.
00:08:34.000 All of that's true, but that's not the real reason why people are stressed.
00:08:37.000 It's not the real reason why people are anxious.
00:08:38.000 Because it turns out that we've had a bunch of weirdos in the White House before.
00:08:41.000 That Bill Clinton was no picnic.
00:08:44.000 I think Trump's another level, but Bill Clinton was no picnic.
00:08:46.000 LBJ was no picnic.
00:08:48.000 We've had a bunch of weird presidents before.
00:08:49.000 People who are weirdos and kooks.
00:08:52.000 In the 19th century, there was a whole series of weirdos and kooks right in a row before the Civil War.
00:08:56.000 So, you know, this idea that the president is always some sort of beacon of calm and decency in the country is just not true.
00:09:04.000 It's just not real.
00:09:05.000 So what's the real reason why this is?
00:09:06.000 It's because the media ratchet everything up.
00:09:09.000 The media ratchet everything up.
00:09:11.000 Here's the thing.
00:09:13.000 Two things can be true at once.
00:09:15.000 Things can be very chaotic in Trump land.
00:09:17.000 And also, that chaos can manifest in very small ways that don't actually matter to most people's lives.
00:09:22.000 Here's my question.
00:09:23.000 How does it matter to your life, left or right, how does it matter to your life that Trump is president?
00:09:28.000 Has your life changed in any marked way?
00:09:30.000 Did it really change all that much under Obama?
00:09:32.000 Like, I hated Obama as a president.
00:09:33.000 I thought he was a terrible president.
00:09:35.000 I thought he was really bad for the country.
00:09:36.000 You know, and that made me anxious.
00:09:38.000 It made me upset.
00:09:39.000 Did it make me, like, go see a psychiatrist?
00:09:40.000 No, of course not, because that's silly.
00:09:42.000 But, you know, but did he change my life in any serious, material way?
00:09:46.000 I don't...
00:09:47.000 I think so.
00:09:48.000 I really don't think so.
00:09:49.000 And I don't think that, and I think that's true for most Americans.
00:09:51.000 Like, if you're, if you're a baronel stutsman living in Washington State, and the local government is shutting you down because you're a religious business owner, then you can say the government is really affecting your life in tremendously horrible ways.
00:10:01.000 But the truth is, most of what happens in Washington, D.C.
00:10:03.000 does not have direct impact on you.
00:10:05.000 Yes, there are times when it impacts you, but it's few and far between, I think, for the vast majority of Americans.
00:10:11.000 So why is everybody really going nuts?
00:10:12.000 It's because everybody's into the news, and we watch the news as entertainment, and the entertainment news has decided that everything in the world is about to collapse.
00:10:19.000 We are on the edge of collapse.
00:10:21.000 We're sitting right there on the cliff, and one little push by Trump, and the entire country is going to be like Wile E. Coyote.
00:10:26.000 We're going to look down, we're going to be in midair, we're going to look down, realize we're in midair, and then it's going to be
00:10:32.000 Thank you.
00:10:50.000 Yesterday has this headline.
00:10:51.000 It's a real headline.
00:10:52.000 President Trump reaches 32 days, won't be shortest U.S.
00:10:55.000 president.
00:10:57.000 First of all, James Madison was the shortest U.S.
00:10:58.000 president at 5'4", but second of all, it says he reaches 32 days and he won't be the shortest U.S.
00:11:03.000 president.
00:11:04.000 The implicit expectation of this headline is that we are so crazy here that we have to get Trump out of here, like right now, in the first 30 days, and we should just be grateful the world hasn't ended in the first 30 days of his administration.
00:11:16.000 I think, number one, everybody is underestimating the durability of the constitutional system.
00:11:20.000 There are lots of checks and balances.
00:11:22.000 It turns out it's actually hard to push your agenda.
00:11:24.000 It turns out that Barack Obama couldn't do all the things that he wanted to do because there were checks and balances in the system.
00:11:29.000 Trump is discovering those same checks and balances inside the system.
00:11:32.000 He really hasn't done anything that major yet.
00:11:34.000 He hasn't.
00:11:35.000 Right or left?
00:11:35.000 I understand the right wants to be over the moon about Trump.
00:11:37.000 Okay, fine.
00:11:38.000 I understand the left wants to be crazy about Trump.
00:11:39.000 That's a little less fine.
00:11:41.000 Here's the reality.
00:11:42.000 Trump hasn't done anything very big yet, right?
00:11:43.000 He had the Mexico City policy.
00:11:44.000 He's done a lot of little things that I think are good.
00:11:46.000 He's nominated Gorsuch, which I think is a big, good thing.
00:11:49.000 But that's pretty much it.
00:11:50.000 Have you seen a big piece of policy come out of the Trump administration?
00:11:53.000 Not yet.
00:11:54.000 And so wouldn't it behoove us to wait and see?
00:11:56.000 I was talking to Andrew Klavan about this yesterday, because Klavan is over the moon about Trump.
00:11:59.000 And what I was saying to him is, it's a little too early to make hard and fast judgments about whether to be over the moon about Trump.
00:12:05.000 You're at a museum right now, and you're standing right up close to a Seurat painting.
00:12:09.000 Okay, for people who don't know Seurat, he's a pointless painter.
00:12:11.000 You know, Sunday in the Park with George, which just made this more obscure.
00:12:14.000 Okay, if you're standing in front of a Seurat painting, okay, it's a bunch of dots.
00:12:17.000 That's all you see.
00:12:18.000 If you're right in front of it, there's a bunch of dots.
00:12:19.000 And then as you pull out, you see that it's this amazing picture of Sunday in the park with George.
00:12:24.000 But if you are too close to it, it just looks like a bunch of dots.
00:12:28.000 We're only 30 days in.
00:12:29.000 Right now, Trump's administration is a bunch of dots.
00:12:31.000 It's a little too early to say that when you pull out from the picture, it's going to be a picture of nuclear Armageddon.
00:12:36.000 Or that it's gonna be a picture of utopia.
00:12:38.000 We just don't know yet.
00:12:39.000 But the media are portraying it as Armageddon, or they're saying we're right on the verge of Armageddon unless you're worried.
00:12:44.000 Unless you're worried.
00:12:45.000 Quick rule about worrying, folks.
00:12:47.000 Worrying has never done anybody any good.
00:12:49.000 Concern that drives you to action is one thing.
00:12:51.000 Worry, fretting, nobody's ever had a better life because they worried more.
00:12:55.000 Okay, worry does not make your life any better.
00:12:56.000 But this is what the media are pushing, this idea that we're in the middle of this giant crisis all the time.
00:13:02.000 NBC released this series of propaganda videos starring children who are worried, worried about Donald Trump.
00:13:08.000 These kids, I mean, this is indoctrination here.
00:13:10.000 Dear Mr. President.
00:13:11.000 Dear Mr. President.
00:13:12.000 Dear Mr. President.
00:13:18.000 I'm excited for a political outsider that can solve the disconnect between the American citizens and the legislators in Washington.
00:13:24.000 When you speak on things that make me feel uncomfortable or I disagree with, you make me feel small because I know I can't change it.
00:13:33.000 I want you to know that I don't like your definition of American because I don't seem to fit within it.
00:13:40.000 Most of my family is black.
00:13:43.000 I'm afraid that you're gonna hurt some of us blacks.
00:13:46.000 Right now, you're just kind of in the middle.
00:13:48.000 You're swaying towards bad, but I think you can sweep back to good.
00:13:51.000 You are here attempting to whitewash America.
00:13:54.000 You're gonna separate me away from my family, and I really don't want that.
00:14:03.000 Beautiful piano music.
00:14:04.000 Okay, I hate, I hate in politics when people use children as a sort of proxy for what they want to say themselves.
00:14:12.000 I hate when you use children as tools.
00:14:14.000 Unlike some other folks.
00:14:15.000 I hate when you use children as tools.
00:14:17.000 I think that it's just terrible.
00:14:18.000 And so, you know, when you look at this kind of video and the media is using these kids as propaganda vehicles, what do you expect people to feel like?
00:14:25.000 Does this make you feel not anxious?
00:14:27.000 Makes me feel more anxious?
00:14:28.000 Does it make you feel anxious?
00:14:29.000 It makes you feel like, this poor kid, right?
00:14:31.000 She's gonna be walking around homeless on the streets of Los Angeles because Donald Trump personally went and kicked in a door and dragged away her screaming mother.
00:14:38.000 Right?
00:14:38.000 How's that supposed to not make you feel nervous?
00:14:40.000 And then you wonder why the anxiety is up?
00:14:42.000 That's not good, by the way.
00:14:43.000 When the country's anxiety is up, like, we on the right, we can laugh at it.
00:14:46.000 Ah-ha-ha, the snowflakes!
00:14:47.000 Ah-ha-ha!
00:14:47.000 Okay, first of all, the easiest thing in the world is melting snowflakes.
00:14:49.000 I do it for a living.
00:14:50.000 It's very easy.
00:14:51.000 It's not hard.
00:14:52.000 But, beyond that, it's not good when the entire country feels like it is a series of snowflakes that are melting, because eventually, when you have a bunch of people who are in constant crisis, anxiety, panic mode, something busts loose.
00:15:03.000 And I think that we're entering the verge of that, and the media is really propagating that in a major way.
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00:16:55.000 Final note about the media.
00:16:58.000 Especially about immigration, they're really making it seem like crisis point, like Trump is going out there knocking down doors, dragging people out of their houses.
00:17:04.000 I mean, I seem to remember when Bill Clinton literally knocked down doors, literally had his SWAT teams knock down doors to drag a kid away from his family and back to Cuba.
00:17:12.000 And the media didn't make a huge deal, as huge a deal out of that as they're making out of this.
00:17:16.000 It was a big deal, but it wasn't as big a deal as what they're doing now.
00:17:18.000 Here's a story that's being promoted all over the media.
00:17:22.000 A child in an anti-Trump protest talking to MSNBC, talking about how his father and how the father and uncle were deported.
00:17:30.000 And actually, we've been walking with these marchers for a while now, and we were surprised to see that some of the littlest ones are leading this rally.
00:17:38.000 People like Jose right over here.
00:17:40.000 Jose, tell me, why were you leading the march just now?
00:17:44.000 Because I hate Trump, and so do my parents and other friends.
00:17:50.000 And he deported my father and my uncle because they were illegal immigrants.
00:17:58.000 Thank you so much, Jose.
00:18:00.000 So, the immigration issue very near and dear.
00:18:02.000 Random child who can now tell us a sob story.
00:18:04.000 Okay, we don't know anything about his father and his uncle.
00:18:07.000 You notice that we don't know anything.
00:18:08.000 Did she ask, like, so, do they have criminal records?
00:18:11.000 I don't know who they deported, right?
00:18:13.000 The Trump administration so far has been focusing on people with prior history of criminality, so I assume that he's not just rounding up illegal immigrants.
00:18:20.000 I live in Los Angeles, okay?
00:18:21.000 Los Angeles is like the number one city in America for illegal immigration, and I haven't seen the ICE vans on the street going and rounding people up at Home Depot.
00:18:28.000 It ain't happening.
00:18:29.000 So this idea that there's this vast crackdown on illegal immigration, it's just not true.
00:18:33.000 But now we're getting stories about women taking sanctuary in churches to avoid Donald Trump's evil deportation squads.
00:18:40.000 Jim, this is a Quaker meeting house, as they call it, where they have taken in a woman from Peru and her two young children who were born in the U.S.
00:18:49.000 because they say they don't want to see families split apart.
00:18:54.000 Not beyond the door does Ingrid Encalada Latore feel safe.
00:18:58.000 What will happen if you go back to Peru?
00:19:01.000 You know, I have two children here.
00:19:06.000 They go to school and I don't want to go back.
00:19:10.000 Here in the Mountain View Quaker Meeting House, she and her two children have been living for the past three months.
00:19:16.000 The assumption is immigration agents would not come and get her in a church.
00:19:22.000 We don't expect that ice would violate that sanctuary here.
00:19:28.000 She came here from Peru 17 years ago to visit a relative and didn't leave.
00:19:33.000 She was convicted of a felony for using a false social security number and has been ordered to be deported.
00:19:42.000 That is pretty much why Jeanette Vizquerra, a mother of four, took sanctuary in a Unitarian church.
00:19:48.000 So now we've got all these people taking sanctuary in churches.
00:19:50.000 It's something out of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, right?
00:19:52.000 Quasimodo swings down on his rope, grabs Esmeralda, and there they are up in the tower shouting, Sanctuary!
00:19:58.000 Okay, so, do we need a better comprehensive immigration policy?
00:20:01.000 Yeah, we do.
00:20:02.000 We do.
00:20:03.000 Okay, I've been an advocate for a long time of the idea that we close the border and then we go through the illegal immigrants who are here and we figure out who deserves to stay and who deserves to go.
00:20:11.000 I don't think that we ought to treat people as a class exactly.
00:20:14.000 I don't think that just because you came in the country illegally, everybody who came in the country illegally is exactly the same.
00:20:18.000 I don't think that's right.
00:20:19.000 I think that's actually kind of silly.
00:20:21.000 That said, the media coverage of this makes it seem, like, if you watch this, you would think that the Trump Gestapo is going door to door knocking down doors and grabbing people out of their houses.
00:20:29.000 I mean, how can you watch that and not feel anxious?
00:20:31.000 This is why the left is anxious, and that's not going to be good.
00:20:34.000 That's not going to be good.
00:20:36.000 Now we're going to have to continue talking about this on the other side of the break over at dailywire.com.
00:20:40.000 There's a lot more to come.
00:20:41.000 I want to talk about how Trump is responding to all of this and whether it's ratcheting down or ratcheting up tensions.
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00:20:56.000 We have the Shapiro store, which is coming, I think, next month.
00:20:58.000 I think so.