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00:03:09.000A significant portion of our emails the last couple weeks have been about what is happening in the Illinois education system.
00:03:19.000We were the first program to highlight, expose, and put a light on the blatant indoctrination that is happening in Illinois high schools.
00:03:29.000This is a proposed bill, and I'm actually reading from CharlieKirk.com.
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00:03:46.000But we have a story that we wrote here, and it's a bill pushing left-leaning politics into the classroom in Illinois has officially passed.
00:04:37.000When you hear what's happening in Illinois, which used to be a wonderful state, it used to be a conservative state, state I grew up in, a state that was somewhat reasonable and normal, you will be shocked.
00:04:47.000So we previously covered and wrote also on CharlieKirk.com about how the Illinois State Board of Education was passing a bill called, quote, culturally responsive teaching and leading standards.
00:04:58.000I actually got this from a friend of mine, a former teacher and football coach, who anonymously emailed us saying, Charlie, don't read my name on air, but I can't believe what's happening here.
00:05:08.000I couldn't believe it when I first read it.
00:05:11.000But the new standards that were being pushed by this bill, which when we first covered it was a proposed bill, was to have teachers assess, quote, how their biases affect how they assess tools to mitigate their own behavior, such as racism, sexism, homophobia, unearned privilege, and Eurocentrism.
00:05:29.000A prominent advocate, Bettina Love, of critical race theory, she said that white teachers need an anti-racist therapy.
00:05:39.000And this bill argued that students need to get involved in the activism in the local community.
00:05:55.000This bill would become law, not suggestion, not recommendation, not guidelines, not outline, law, that every student in Illinois must participate in activism, political activism.
00:06:07.000So when we first covered this story, it was a proposed bill.
00:06:11.000It has now passed in committee in the Illinois State House of Representatives.
00:06:16.000I think it's getting marked up right now in the Illinois State Senate.
00:06:21.000So let me read part of this bill directly from you.
00:06:23.000I'm reading from the ThomasMorrisSociety.org, and this is straight from the bill.
00:06:28.000The Illinois State Board of Education Notice of Proposed Amendments.
00:06:32.000It goes on to explain what this bill is and the purpose of this bill, to prepare a program, of course, of studying and teaching for school support or administrative field pursuant to the State Board of Education rules.
00:06:44.000It continues by going, the number one objective of this bill of what's happening in Illinois is to teach self-awareness and relationship to others.
00:06:53.000You see, teachers, as it says, must become culturally responsive.
00:06:57.000And leaders are reflective to gain a deeper understanding of themselves and how they impact others, leading to a more cohesive and productive student development.
00:07:03.000But this is how they're going to do it.
00:07:06.000They are going to know about their students and their lives outside of school, using this knowledge to build instruction that leverages prior knowledge and skills.
00:07:14.000It will engage in self-reflection about their own actions and interactions and what ideas motivated those actions.
00:07:21.000It continues by saying that understand and value the notion that multiple lived experiences exist and there's not one correct way of doing or understanding something and that what is seen as correct is most often based on our lived experiences.
00:07:38.000The Illinois State Board of Education that will teach children, by the way, in both private and public schools.
00:07:43.000We got lots of emails from people in the Chicagoland area saying, oh, I go, my kid goes to St. Viter, my kid goes to Loyola, my kid goes to Notre Dame, my kid goes to Mount Carmel.
00:07:55.000According to this bill, both private and public education will be impacted.
00:07:59.000Now, that might be argued in the courts, that might be litigated.
00:08:03.000I don't know how that is possibly constitutional, but that is the current status of this bill, which, by the way, has passed and all it's going to take is a Senate markup and then a governor's signature.
00:08:14.000But let me say this again: that there's not one correct way of doing or understanding something, and that what is seen as correct is most often based on our lived experiences.
00:08:24.000So, let's pretend you're a physics teacher, and you say, Today we're going to learn Newtonian physics.
00:08:31.000And according to these guidelines, it says that there is not one correct way of doing or understanding something.
00:08:38.000So, you're a seventh-grade teacher and you say, Today, we're going to learn about Sir Isaac Newton.
00:09:11.000Or what if a math teacher says that there's a certain way to do order of operations, that you must follow the order of operations, or else everyone's going to get different results when you do a math equation?
00:09:24.000But some kid raises their hand and they say, Well, based on my lived experience, order of operations is a white supremacist, Anglo-Eurocentric, which is a phrase that's used in this educational bill, to advance a phallologocentric patriarchy, and it's racist.
00:09:41.000What I've just given you a small window into, what I've just described in non-sarcastic terms, by the way, I am so serious when I say this, is postmodernism running the American Academy.
00:09:54.000Postmodernism started with, of course, Michelle Foucault, Jacques Derrida, amongst many other thinkers in the 1960s, who were Marxists from the Frankfurt School in Germany.
00:10:06.000They came to America, and they first said there is no such thing as absolute truth.
00:10:10.000There's an infinite amount of interpretations of everything: math, science, history, logic, reason, all of these are just tools to keep white people in power perpetually.
00:10:20.000Now, what they really were were economic Marxists that hit a nerve in the American psyche of people that were very uncomfortable, for good reason, with some of our racial past.
00:10:34.000So, because of that, Jacques Derrida and Michelle Foucault, Herbert Marcuse, amongst others, popularized a way of thinking called postmodernism.
00:10:44.000Now, I could do an entire podcast just on this, but what they are now passing in Illinois into law is the 1960s revolution of postmodernism, Marxist ideas, directly into the classroom.
00:10:56.000You keep on reading this bill, and it says that teachers must engage in self-reflection about their own actions and interactions and what ideas motivated those actions.
00:11:08.000Now, incredibly, you read this bill, nothing about this education bill is about actually teaching people what they need to succeed in life.
00:11:16.000It's never about increasing literacy rates.
00:11:19.000It's not about making children in the inner city of Chicago more likely to be able to understand the world around them.
00:11:24.000Instead, number six of the educational bill that has now been passed in Illinois is: quote, explore their own intersecting identities, how they were developed, and how they impact the daily experience of the world.
00:11:38.000In this bill, it also says, quote, recognize how their identity, race, ethnicity, national origin, language, sex and gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical development, emotional ability, socioeconomic class, and religion affects their perspectives and beliefs about pedagogy and students.
00:11:58.000You see, when I grew up in Illinois and I went to Wheeling High School, my teachers said, do you know what means nothing?
00:12:03.000Your race, ethnicity, national origin, language, sex, and gender, gendered identity, sexual orientation, physical and development, emotional ability, and socioeconomic class.
00:12:11.000Now the teachers are being told to do the exact opposite.
00:12:14.000Now teachers are now being taught to tell their kids, no, no, no, your race matters.
00:12:19.000If you're a black kid, you can't actually succeed in this country.
00:12:23.000An unbelievably racist, an unbelievably dangerous thing to tell any person.
00:12:28.000It is what Clarence Thomas, who's a black member of the U.S. Supreme Court, calls the bigotry of low expectations.
00:12:39.000You're actually racist towards that group of people.
00:12:42.000The bill continues by saying, educate themselves about students' communities, cultures, and histories.
00:12:48.000Critically think about the institutions in which they find themselves, working to reform these institutions wherever and however necessary.
00:12:54.000It continues by saying teachers must assess their own biases and perceptions, how they affect their teaching practice and how they access tools to mitigate their own behavior.
00:13:04.000I mentioned this earlier, but I'm rereading parts of this because it's mentioned in the bill twice.
00:13:09.000If you're teaching math, if you're teaching reading, you must now go through your own bias training as if what you are teaching might actually be racist.
00:13:20.000Part B of the bill says, quote, that teachers must understand the systems of oppression.
00:13:25.000And now let me just take a pause here.
00:13:27.000A lot of our podcast listeners are not in Illinois.
00:13:30.000This is coming to every single state across the country.
00:13:33.000Illinois is an incubator for the rest of the country.
00:13:37.000What you are reading here will be instilled and installed into public education all across the country.
00:13:44.000They will perfect it in Illinois and they'll export it to other states.
00:13:47.000They're already doing something similar in California.
00:13:49.000Continues by saying, culturally responsive teachers and leaders understand that there are systems in our society that create and reinforce inequities, thereby creating oppressive conditions.
00:13:59.000Educators work actively against these systems in their everyday roles in educational institutions.
00:14:04.000Performance indicators, the culturally responsive teacher and leader will be able to understand the difference between prejudice, discrimination, racism, and how to operate at the interpersonal, intergroup, and institutional levels.
00:14:15.000Collaborate with colleagues to determine how students from different backgrounds experience the classroom.
00:14:24.000Be aware of the powers of privilege and the need for social advocacy and social action to better empower diverse students and communities.
00:14:33.000It is now the obligation, it is now the requirement of a teacher in Illinois to mobilize their students for social activism and be aware of the effects of power and privilege and how social advocacy can better empower diverse students and communities.
00:14:51.000Now that would be bad enough, but it continues by even saying no and understand how a system of inequity creates rules regarding student punishment that negatively impacts students of colors.
00:15:01.000Oh yes, telling a young child who might be a student of color, a black or Hispanic kid, to not swear, to listen to the rules and discipline them for that might negatively impact the student for color, but not the white kid.
00:15:19.000Continues to say this, quote, culturally responsive teachers and leaders view their students as individuals in the context of their families and communities.
00:15:28.000They will provide parents with information what their child is expected to learn, know, and do at their grade level in ways to reinforce these concepts at home because the indoctrination must not just stop in the classroom.
00:15:38.000It must spread all across the community.
00:15:44.000A lot of you guys have had Mike Lindell's back.
00:15:47.000I know a lot of you guys want to continue to have his back.
00:15:49.000And the amazing company that you guys are supporting is MyPillow.
00:15:53.000The inventor and CEO of MyPillow, Mike Lindell, is fighting very, very hard.
00:15:57.000And a lot of you guys say, I want to reward courage.
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00:16:32.000Part E of this bill, quote, leveraging student activism.
00:16:37.000Culturally responsive teachers and leaders will support and create opportunities for student advocacy and representation in the content and classroom.
00:16:46.000The culturally responsive teachers and leader will, quote, offer guidance, get this, to students on how to develop a, quote, self-advocacy plan to inform decisions and choices.
00:16:57.000So it's not just enough to educate children, which, by the way, Illinois schools are some of the worst in the country.
00:17:03.000Literacy rates, graduation rates, kids are not reading at grade level.
00:17:07.000And while they're trying to teach kids to become activists, Illinois' education system objectively rates 30th according to the NAEP ranking in 2013.
00:17:16.000Now, I spent a couple minutes just going through trying to find where Illinois education ranks now.
00:18:08.000I repeat, culturally responsive teachers and leaders will support and create opportunities for student advocacy and representation in the content and classroom.
00:18:19.000I quote, identify actions that can be taken to apply learning to develop opportunities and relationships for alliances.
00:18:28.000Create a risk-taking space that promotes student activism and advocacy.
00:18:34.000So for every young person that might be listening to this right now, if this ends up becoming law and you're a conservative student in Illinois, you should tell your teacher that you want to create an action plan to start a turning point USA group at your local high school.
00:18:49.000Maybe there's some kids listening to this right now in St. Viter.
00:19:05.000Your tax dollars in Illinois, and yes, your tax dollars outside of Illinois because federal government money is bailing out the broken Illinois pension system education system will now be going to subsidize the creation of a generation of Greta Thunbergs.
00:19:20.000People that are ungrateful, people that have no wisdom, people that are now going to be mobilized for political action in their community.
00:19:28.000And that's not even about Greta Thunberg.
00:19:30.000I think she was used and manipulated by her parents and self-righteous activists for a political gain and purpose.
00:19:42.000What I'm saying is that the type of activism she engaged in is now the blueprint that they want to employ in Illinois.
00:19:49.000We've warned against this for quite some time here on this program, that education is far less about teaching young people how to be or how to interact in the world, and instead it's about training activists.
00:20:05.000It's about giving students a toolkit, literally, as it says in this bill, to go destroy the country around them.
00:20:16.000It continues by saying, quote, family and community collaboration, culturally responsive teachers and leaders will partner with families and communities to build rapport, form collaborative and mutual relationships, and engage in effective cross-cultural communication.
00:20:30.000This entire bill is written using the belief that our country is irredeemably racist, and the only way to fix it is massive social action, mobilizing students and young people into the streets, and also teaching them that they have privilege if they're white in the curriculum using critical race theory.
00:20:56.000And then finally, reinforcing that your actions can't actually improve your life.
00:21:05.000That the world around you is so broken, the only action you can take is full-scale revolution.
00:21:12.000In addition to that, the Illinois State Board of Education with the critical race theory racists and the Democrats that run the state of Illinois have partnered together with this piece of curriculum to teach young people that skin color matters.
00:21:54.000And finally, this bill forces teachers, gives them no freedom whatsoever, gives them no suggestions or guidelines, but forces them to become community organizers.
00:22:08.000You see, the left, they are not pleased that Illinois is already a bankrupt, miserable, broken state where Illinois loses a taxpayer every 11 minutes.
00:22:22.000They want a complete totalitarian takeover of Illinois to lead the country in misery.
00:22:29.000If you're listening to this right now in Illinois, every single parent, regardless of political affiliation, needs to listen to this podcast.
00:22:37.000If you're listening to this outside of Illinois, I encourage you guys to text this podcast to your family or friends.
00:22:43.000Everything I have talked about here is actually reading the bill, which I'm not even sure every single person that voted for this bill in the Illinois State House actually read the bill.
00:22:54.000That every single person on this Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, JCAR, actually understood this bill.
00:23:08.000The JCAR does not require a governor's signature.
00:23:12.000The ISBE, the Illinois State Board of Education, passed the Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards in December.
00:23:19.000And so then they have this joint, allegedly bipartisan committee, the JCAR, split evenly between Democrats and Republicans from out the House and the Senate.
00:23:28.000And they needed eight of their 12 members to oppose the cultural standards in order to block them.
00:23:32.000But instead, it passed along party lines.
00:23:34.000So all the Republicans voted against it.
00:24:01.000And well-meaning, mostly suburban families that were just raising their kids were not engaged enough to understand that their entire livelihood has been hijacked by the most radical, racist, and I say that word intentionally, forces in our country.
00:24:19.000So this is now going to become implemented in the state of Illinois, the Illinois State Board of Education.
00:24:28.000You could try to sue about it, but it's not going to happen immediately.
00:24:31.000It's going to take a little while to implement it.
00:24:35.000But some of you are going to be listening to this program, God willing, 10 years from now and 20 years from now.
00:24:41.000And we're going to be watching someone at Stevenson High School, one of the largest high schools in the country, all of a sudden mobilize their fellow students because their teacher told them to go protest climate change.
00:24:55.000And when you see that story happen 10 years from now, I want you to remember back to this podcast.
00:25:00.000When this was passed and it was a below-the-radar bill, this is going to pass all across the country.
00:25:06.000That we must have culturally aware teachers.
00:25:09.000Oh, the word, the term they use is culturally responsive teachers.
00:25:13.000It's hard for me to even find the words to describe how dangerous, disappointing, and how threatening these guidelines are to our republic.
00:25:23.000It will create millions of future liberal activists, create teachers that are incentivized, subsidized, and paid to create more Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:25:36.000Republicans did the right thing and voted against it in the state committee.
00:25:39.000They should have done a lot more than that.
00:25:41.000Republicans in Illinois have been rather corrupt over the last couple decades and weak.
00:26:15.000I hope this results in a grassroots call to action of the wonderful patriotic people of Illinois that might have been taken it easy before to start running for school board positions across the country, to start running for local government.
00:26:26.000This is going to impact all of Illinois, from the very conservative southern Illinois area of Fairfield and Mount Vernon and Salem and Centrilla, Nashville, Greenville, all the way up to northern Illinois, Crystal Lake, Waukegan, even Naperville and Rockford.
00:26:57.000It is now time for conservatives to take this at least one fraction as seriously.
00:27:02.000And for maybe some of your liberal friends that might be listening to this out of state, maybe you're listening to this program in South Carolina or Oregon.
00:27:11.000Have them listen to this part of the program where I started up going through this Illinois culturally responsive teaching standard, which is now in, it's implemented, it's done, unless J.B. Pritzker will repeal it, which he won't.
00:27:36.000What makes a white person different than a black person?
00:27:38.000Don't give me this nonsense of shared experiences and all that garbage.
00:27:42.000There are twice as many white people that live in poverty in America than black people.
00:27:46.000Yes, there are more white people, but this idea that every single white person in this country grows up with unforeseen and unprecedented privilege is nonsense.
00:27:54.000You want to know the true privilege in our country?
00:28:09.000Because we subsidize single motherhood in our country.
00:28:11.000So instead of the State Board of Education going in and teaching young black men to stay loyally married to the women that they impregnate or that they end up getting in a relationship with, we're passing this 35-page bill about, quote, leveraging student activism.
00:28:28.000Instead of rebuilding the American family, which, by the way, if the Republican Party was serious about ever winning elections again, we, of course, have to talk about voter integrity, big tech censorship.
00:28:37.000But the idea of rebuilding the American family and saying we're going to cut fatherlessness in half and we're going to be a responsible nation again is very, very popular.
00:28:46.000Why Republicans don't talk about this is beyond me.
00:28:49.000Some of them mention it here and there.
00:28:50.000We need a Marshall Plan to slash single motherhood in our country.
00:28:54.000And so this is where our education system is going.
00:28:57.000Not teaching young people to make good choices, not teaching young people to act ethically.
00:29:01.000Instead, look at everything through a lens that our country is racist, bigoted, homophobic, backwards.
00:29:07.000It needs massive social revolution and action.
00:29:11.000And this blueprint will come to all of your children's schools soon.
00:29:17.000And if you think you're above this, oh, it's never going to happen in my neighborhood.
00:29:22.000I was in Illinois schools nine years ago, where if you dared to say any of this stuff, my Democrat teachers would have called you out for it.
00:29:32.000If you would have said that skin color matters when I was in high school, nine years ago, everybody, nine years ago, I was in high school.
00:29:41.000You would have been kicked out of the school.
00:29:42.000If you would have said America was a racist country, even to the 53% Hispanic high school I was in, the Hispanic kids would have said, what are you talking about?
00:29:51.000This is the least racist country in the world.
00:30:08.000Boy, if you live in Illinois or across the country and you're not involved in your school board, I'm going to say this as lovingly as I can.
00:30:13.000If you can't name every school board member right now, their names, if you can't name every school board member in your local area, and if you've not personally contacted them, then you have not done what the left has done.
00:30:27.000Email them this podcast and say, do you support this?
00:30:30.000Do you support the Illinois State Board of Education?
00:30:33.000New notice of proposed amendments, which has now been passed and it's going to be implemented.
00:30:38.000But most conservatives and Republicans are too busy building our businesses, going to church, building our local communities, taking care of our families.
00:30:48.000But you're not going to have a country to do all that stuff in very soon because you're now going to have millions and millions of 13, 14, 15, and 16-year-olds instructed by law with your tax dollars to be taught that everything is racist, the country is awful, and then develop a social activism plan to get out in the streets about it.
00:31:29.000Use what I use to digest big ideas quickly at thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org.
00:31:35.000They summarize the key ideas from new and noteworthy nonfiction, giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite-sized form.
00:31:42.000Read or listen to hundreds of titles in a matter of minutes, from old classics like Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to the recent bestsellers like Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life.
00:31:51.000When I'm going for walks or when I'm riding on the bike, I always pop open thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org, and I just try to learn something new every day.
00:32:01.000That's something we talk about here a lot on this Charlie Kirk show.
00:32:23.000Congratulations, you and a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:32:26.000I'd really appreciate it if Charlie put together a show describing how the aspects of our government, democracy, capitalism, et cetera, were founded on the Bible, giving specific references.
00:32:33.000I'm trying to learn so I can teach others.
00:32:35.000Michelle, thank you, Michelle, for the question.
00:32:39.000I'm happy to dive into it even further about how the Bible was the foundation that built our entire country.
00:32:47.000It is a fact that if anyone says anything different, they're using revisionist history.
00:32:52.000From William Blackstone to John Locke to the Founding Fathers to Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, they were all inspired from the Bible and by the Bible.
00:33:00.000What was the verse that the Founding Fathers put on the Liberty Bell?
00:33:04.000It was from Leviticus that you might proclaim liberty of which the land that you are in.
00:33:09.000The Founding Fathers were Bible-believing, church-attending patriots.
00:33:16.000I talked about this a little bit in the program last week.
00:33:44.000William Bradford was an advocate of private property.
00:33:47.000And one of the most important documents that I encourage all of you to know and to understand is the Mayflower Compact.
00:33:54.000The three most important documents that led to the American Constitution, which is the greatest political document ever written outside of the Bible, is the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, and the Declaration of Independence.
00:34:06.000If you don't know those three documents, then you're missing out.
00:34:10.000Now, they don't teach that in our schools anymore, obviously.
00:34:14.000They're definitely not going to teach it anymore.
00:34:16.000But if you understand the Mayflower Compact, you understand so much about our country.
00:34:20.000The Mayflower Compact, of course, was a document that was signed on the Mayflower as the Mayflower was coming to America.
00:34:27.000And it was really amazing because the people that signed onto the compact, they did not know where they were going or what would happen to them.
00:34:34.000But instead, they created almost this covenantal culture with each other, which was inspired, of course, by the Hebrews.
00:34:41.000There were many people that were involved in the Mayflower Compact.
00:34:44.000But what's so amazing is that they recognize in the compact that their rights come from God, that their charter is from above, and that they will be good to each other, not perfect to each other.
00:34:55.000Now, William Bradford, who wrote an amazing book called The History of the Plymouth Plantation, I encourage all of you guys to check it out.
00:35:03.000And all the people that signed the Mayflower Compact understood Hebrew covenantal culture, which was a civil body of politics.
00:35:12.000This big breakthrough was the consent of the governed, that if we do not agree to this government, it is invalid.
00:35:19.000We do not agree to the government of King George.
00:35:21.000We're going to go to a rocky, cold, blustery, barren wasteland, which ended up being very fertile land, but in the winter, it was very barren, and start something new.
00:35:32.000And what was so incredible about the pilgrims, and by the way, why do we call them pilgrims?
00:36:02.000Pilgrimage I don't believe in theologically, but they're still in a pilgrimage.
00:36:07.000If you, as a Jew, go to Jerusalem, you're being a pilgrim.
00:36:11.000But all of a sudden, you have Christians going from Britain to America, and we call them pilgrims because they were going to a land that they thought that they could create new inspired by God's teaching, the most important text ever written, the Holy Bible.
00:36:28.000The biggest reason, the other person that you just can't get over, and all the atheists and the secularists and the people that try to say that we are founded purely on reason and not on revelation or the teachings of the Bible, you can't get over William Blackstone.
00:36:41.000You cannot get to the American founding without William Blackstone.
00:37:32.000So in the case of the Ivy Leagues, we have a bunch of overeducated, indebted, angry young people that know a bunch of facts about things that are irrelevant but have no wisdom.
00:37:44.000No, I wouldn't necessarily agree to do that.
00:37:47.000I'm not a big believer in camouflage politics, saying you're one thing, even though you might be another.
00:37:54.000I'm a believer that you tell people who you are honestly.
00:37:57.000Whether or not you tell the truth in the little things, I think actually manifests whether or not you're going to tell the truth in the big things.
00:38:03.000So maybe there might be a strategy or a tactical reason to do that.
00:38:35.000I'm not sure why nobody talks about this, but the platform Trump ran on appears to be the platform of the Reform Party started by Ross Perot.
00:39:35.000There's also evidence to show that he took away from both Republicans and Democrats.
00:39:38.000Ross Perot got around 22% of the vote.
00:39:41.000The Ross Perot Revolution was really about talking about how trade and immigration, the current policy that H.W. Bush were pushing forward, were hurting the country.
00:39:52.000Ross Perot famously used to say, do you hear that sucking noise?
00:40:29.000But the legacy lives on in those of us that are unafraid to think outside of the box, think creatively, and do so for our country.
00:40:36.000I want to thank all of you guys for emailing us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:40:57.000Can you text this episode to some of your other friends, maybe 10 of your friends, 12 of your friends, maybe one of your friends, who knows?