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All right. Thanks for joining everybody. Watching the end of the summer stories is going to be fun. There's going to be a whole bunch of stuff that looks kind of weird and fun and humorous. So keep watching for that.

All right, I'm going to talk to the local subscribers. My beloved local subscribers. Yeah, it's beloved time. Oh yeah. You're right. There was a good... Thanks for reminding me. There was a topic that I swore I wrote down in my notes, but I didn't talk about it. So let me do that now.

There's apparently a Democrat-leaning organization that's paying influencers as much as $80,000 a month to say good things about Democrat policies and Democrats. And again, they're trying to use money to do what the Republicans do without money, which is, hey, Joe Rogan, do you have common sense? Yes. Would you like to say some common sense things about common sense things? Yes. And then you've got Joe Rogan. But they need to pay a Joe Rogan. So they named David Pakman as one of the people allegedly who may be getting payments for being on one side. Now, if I were a left-leaning influencer, I'm pretty sure I would take that money and then I would just do whatever I was going to do anyway because if you're left-leaning, you're always going to say good stuff about Democrats. You might as well take the money. So I can't see that this will possibly work. Like, it seems like they got nothing else to try, so they might as well try something. But I don't think any of them are going to break through and change anybody's minds.

And I have to tell you because I know some of you probably wonder. I have never been approached by anybody who wanted to try to pay me to influence what I say. I've never had that conversation. I don't know anybody who's even in the business of paying Republicans or right-leaning people or just Trump supporters to say good things about Trump. It's not necessary because there's so many influencers who are already there and they've got their own business model and they don't need to be paid.

Let me tell you what I'll compare this to. If you see a local restaurant that used to only serve lunch and dinner and then suddenly they announced that they're going to do brunch on weekends, that's a restaurant that's going out of business because adding brunch is sort of like a Hail Mary because you would have to be like the most wildly successful brunch place to even make a penny for brunch. So when you see that, you don't say to yourself, "Wow, that's a restaurant that's really making it all work. They went from two meals to three. They're expanding. They're getting better." Nope. That's a restaurant that is going to be out of business in one year. I've s