Hey, everybody. You are about to experience the awesome power of the third hour of the TBTL podcast.

First though, let me just take this opportunity to remind you that this podcast is sponsored

exclusively by AT&T. And I have very good news on the Monkey Union front

been talking in the previous two hours about the challenges we have with the expense of creating

this podcast, multi-million dollars per month, mostly because we signed a bad contract with our

Monkey Union. They do a lot of our web programming and some of our audio uploading. It's just a room

full of monkeys. I was able to renegotiate the contract with them just during the last hour of

the show, using a little bit of, you know, old fashioned negotiating is what it came down to.

Basically, I locked myself in a room with Mr. Fussy Bridges, who was their elected representative.

And I basically said, what do you guys want? We can't keep paying you 15 million dollars a month.

And he grunted something at me, which I took to mean we will start working for much less money if

you will stop making us wear human clothes to work. We've been having the monkeys wear

our tuxedos because it's adorable. They don't like that. And so what we did was we agreed that

they don't have to wear tuxedos. We're just going to cover the floor of their workroom with old

newspapers. So they can do whatever they need to do. And they have agreed to work for basically

half the money. So now we're only spending about eight million dollars a month on our monkey

workforce. And we just couldn't be more happy about that. Also, we couldn't be more happy

about having AT&T as our official sponsor. That's the reason, by the way, you get to listen to this

podcast for absolutely free. Make sure you go to their website, which is att.com. Call them up on

the telephone, 1-866 mobility. Find out the nearest store location. Go in there and tell them

thank you very much for supporting the TBL podcast. Buy one of their great phones, sign up for one

of their great plans. And we'll all just have a we'll have a grand old time, won't we? All right,

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