is willing to subsidize a little bit of their overpayment. So there are a million ways that you could do some sketchy things that launder money by overpaying for a book. And that's probably what happened given the players involved and the fact that they sell influence for a living, you know, legally perhaps. I don't know that Joe or Hunter did anything illegal but it's obvious they were selling influence. That part seems well established by everybody basically. So be careful of that. Having said that, there's something sketchy happening with the Biden family. We just don't know exactly what.

Oh, let me finish one other point about book advances. If you say to yourself, Scott, the likely number of total sales of a Biden book could never justify an $11 million or whatever the advance was, we don't know what the advance was, could never justify that much of a payment. Here's what you need to know about publishers. For the big-name books, and he would be a big-name book, they don't often, they don't always try to make money. Did you know that? Sometimes they will overpay for a big-name author so that they can tell the next author, well, we have this author. I mean we just did the big Biden book so you should work with us. It's almost marketing. So a big publishing house will overpay a big name. And how do I know this? This happened to me. When Dilbert was a huge, well-respected hit, I negotiated a big book deal after I'd written The Dilbert Principle and it was a number one book. But when they offered the advance for it, it was like a five-book deal. Even I could tell they were overpaying. I mean it was o