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Every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way, we bring critical thinking, skepticism and irreverence.

To any topic that makes the news, makes it big or makes us mad. It's skeptical. It's political. And there is no welcome that today is August 10th Thursday, 2023.

And it's our show. And there's a possibility. You just tuned in. You heard an auto ad because we turned auto ads on the show.

You might have heard an ad. You don't like. And recently I got a message to someone who said, hey, I got a recruitment ad from the border patrol.

Hey, guys, in case you wonder what are stances on joining the border patrol, you don't wonder what are stances on joining the border.

What I love though is that it's probably wasted money. You remember that site 419 eater where those people would waste the

waste time of the scammer, right? So if you get, let's say a supplement ad that's garbage or fake boner pill ad or something, something that you would normally raise or a Republican ad,

understand it's perfect. They're wasting their money. Think of us as like 419 eater, but for ads. And so what we do is we take the money that comes in from them.

But then they wasted the ad on our skeptical audience who is never going to listen to anything that they say.

And like, we do want to tell you guys just so you understand that we do feel like there is a difference between the ads that we write.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So we endorse happily adamative.com. Yeah.

We endorsed happily manscapes. That's a good product. Like I literally use that product. It's a good product.

Earwolf. Earwolf presents. Earwolf presents. Absolutely. We endorse that.

There are, when we've had ads that we've spoken about, feel comfortable knowing that like, yeah, we think those are actually decent products.

They're worth your time in fashion. We've got we've got them. Right. We don't think their creeps were, you know, like we stopped better health.

I was like, fuck that. We stopped it. I don't want to fuck the money. I told them to go pound sand.

We were not happy with how they use their data. But when it comes to the auto ads, we don't endorse that shit.

I don't, I don't even know what goes in. You can't get it. You can't even guess guys. It's here because they pay for time.

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