Call the media.

Hey everyone, Robert Evans here.

It has been quite a summer.

We've had two political conventions and I am just drained.

So again, we are taking a week off and running a rerun this week.

We do that occasionally because everyone deserves time off,

including every now and then me. I did want to note this is an old

episode on the latter days of El Ron Hubbard, one of our beloved podcast subjects

with Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson, two of my old friends from cracked.com.

They both have a podcast network called Small Beans, which you can back on Patreon and you can find wherever podcasts are.

And I also wanted to note and plug my friend Michael's novel The Clim, it's an epic fantasy memoir with some, you know, magic realism elements to it.

You can Google The Clim Michael Swaim Patreon.

You can also look up the climb wherever books are sold.

I'm seeing it right now on the Barnes and Noble website.

There's a bunch of other places that you can find the climb.

So check out the climb, Michael Swaim,

just type that into Google.

And here's the end of El Ron Hubbard.

For decades, the mafia had New York City

in a stranglehold with law enforcement

seemingly powerless to intervene.

It uses terror to extort people.

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