Valuetainment - August 30, 2025


＂Dark Money For Influencers＂ - SHOCKING Payments EXPOSE Democrats’ Secret Pay-To-Play Strategy


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A dark money group is paying pro-Democrat influencers up to $8,000 a month to spread their leftist talking points. Who are these influencers and where are they coming from? And why are they being paid?

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00:00:00.000 Democrats are trying to find ways to find a Rogan, all that other stuff.
00:00:05.100 A story comes out from Taylor Lorenz, dark money group paying pro-Democrats influencers
00:00:11.300 up to $8,000 a month, New York Post.
00:00:13.840 What's the story, Rob?
00:00:14.960 This is, do you have a video on it or no?
00:00:18.180 It's just a story.
00:00:18.900 Just a story.
00:00:19.420 Okay, let me read it.
00:00:20.700 A secretive dark money group titled Democratic Party, the 1630 fund, is paying online influencers
00:00:27.000 up to $8,000 a month through their course creator incubator program to disseminate left-leaning
00:00:32.880 talking points with participants, including Olivia Juliana, the Gen Z activist who spoke
00:00:39.200 at the 2024 DNC convention, Loren Pierta, a former Playboy executive turned to Occupy Democrats
00:00:47.040 YouTuber, Barrett Adair, who runs a viral American, do you know these people or no, Rob?
00:00:52.140 I don't know.
00:00:52.380 Viral American Girl dot-themed meme account, Susan Lambert, who styled herself as a Regina
00:01:00.920 Georgia liberal.
00:01:02.720 That is a Mean Girls reference. 1.00
00:01:05.740 There's our girl.
00:01:07.060 Arielle Fedor, who is a teacher with 1.4 million TikTok followers, Sandra Jennings, TLC reality
00:01:15.360 star and older brother of trans influencer Jazz Jennings.
00:01:18.680 Weird.
00:01:18.960 David Pakman, host of YouTube show.
00:01:21.520 Oh, our boy.
00:01:22.140 Pakman's on this list? 1.00
00:01:23.280 Oh, weird.
00:01:24.120 But Pakman's got a couple million, why does he need $8,000 a month?
00:01:27.420 Pakman, okay, so along with Leigh McGowan, better known as Politics Scroll, so Assistant
00:01:34.360 31 told the Post that it is a fiscal sponsor, of course, receiving donations on course, we
00:01:40.120 have providing operational administrative support, but it is not the original source of financing,
00:01:45.460 and the fiscal sponsorship model is common across philanthropy and in compliance with
00:01:49.800 all laws.
00:01:50.980 Is that what this is?
00:01:51.780 Rob, do we know anything else about the story?
00:01:54.060 That's all that I know right now.
00:01:55.500 It said how many people were involved?
00:01:56.800 90 of them?
00:01:57.940 90 influence were expected to join.
00:02:00.160 Wow.
00:02:00.260 Go a little bit lower according to WIRED.
00:02:02.340 Go a little bit lower.
00:02:03.040 So that's Pakman right there. 0.99
00:02:05.100 Lower, lower, lower.
00:02:06.300 Is there, let me see what it says, some walk at the group chanting influencer debating the
00:02:10.720 terms.
00:02:11.500 One pro-abortion creator, Perry, would have quip, I believe we are in stage five acceptance.
00:02:16.680 Aaron Pernas, Gen Z influencer once held the Gen Z.
00:02:19.420 Walter Cronkite is reported to have told the colleagues it was take it or leave it.
00:02:23.840 The program secrecy clause was deliberate.
00:02:25.860 It avoids a lot of public disclosure that you see on political ads.
00:02:28.980 A lawyer of Chorus, for Chorus, said in a Zoom call with creators, according to WIRED,
00:02:34.680 your names aren't showing up on reports filed with the FVC.
00:02:38.020 Well, he was wrong.
00:02:39.260 Go a little lower up.
00:02:40.800 So they were thinking their name wasn't going to be on the list.
00:02:43.040 Now it is.
00:02:43.860 That's not good.
00:02:44.460 Okay, so why is this not good?
00:02:46.160 Tell me why this isn't good.
00:02:47.360 I mean, they're paying them, like when it's dark secret money, who's paying it?
00:02:50.560 Is it a specific candidate?
00:02:52.580 Is it a campaign?
00:02:53.360 When they say Democratic Party, it's like, who is it?
00:02:56.560 I'm just curious to who and who's leaking the story.
00:03:00.420 So what's the difference between this and the Russia thing that they were paying people $100,000?
00:03:05.620 You know, Dave Rubin's name was on there and a couple other people's name was on there.
00:03:08.700 You remember that list when it came out?
00:03:09.500 I think it's kind of the same.
00:03:10.460 When they say dark money, Pat, where is it coming from?
00:03:13.960 Who's paying to influence these people, to use their influence?
00:03:17.380 Because if I'm a Democrat, you know how I'm arguing this?
00:03:19.700 How cheap are you guys?
00:03:21.420 You guys are still Republicans, cost money apparently.
00:03:23.360 If you want Rubin, you need $100,000.
00:03:24.740 Or tell them these guys.
00:03:26.360 These guys are like, for $250, they're interested in.
00:03:30.080 So these are the names from Coors.
00:03:32.820 Coors is a creative nonprofit organization dedicated to expand their reach.
00:03:36.720 I'm saying that, of course, is recruiting, training, and supporting independent online voices.
00:03:40.780 And building the next era, training.
00:03:43.300 See, that's the part I have a problem with.
00:03:46.540 Go a little bit lower.
00:03:48.060 What does training mean?
00:03:49.840 Go lower, Rob.
00:03:50.680 Go lower.
00:03:51.100 Okay.
00:03:51.580 Can you go to the top that says get in touch?
00:03:53.460 What does get in touch mean?
00:03:56.240 But still stays there?
00:03:58.120 Nothing newer?
00:03:59.260 Okay.
00:03:59.480 Then go to the other one that says join Coors.
00:04:02.900 Apply now.
00:04:04.000 Go a little bit lower.
00:04:04.880 See if there's anything else.
00:04:06.480 Okay.
00:04:06.720 Let's see the FAQs.
00:04:08.160 What are the benefits of joining Coors?
00:04:09.540 Please.
00:04:10.240 Let's do an ad for it.
00:04:11.020 Guys, if you want to join us.
00:04:13.180 Coors and Cupida program is vibrant.
00:04:14.860 Pro-democracy learning community.
00:04:16.240 For participants receive a monthly stipend.
00:04:19.300 So they're open about it.
00:04:21.080 The joint will give support.
00:04:22.200 Okay, go to the next one.
00:04:23.480 Support and mentorship.
00:04:23.800 Rob, send me this link.
00:04:24.660 I'm going to sign up.
00:04:25.480 Will I be paid to create content?
00:04:27.080 Nope.
00:04:27.660 Nope.
00:04:28.280 Oh.
00:04:28.820 They've noped.
00:04:30.300 Yeah, I don't like that.
00:04:31.180 I don't like that.
00:04:31.920 Coors is a creator-led nonpartisan nonprofit for a really different model.
00:04:36.380 We don't pay creators to produce content.
00:04:38.320 Keep reading.
00:04:38.700 We just give you space to learn more about how to communicate.
00:04:41.240 Please note that we do ask incubators to submit one piece of content for growth analysis.
00:04:46.220 Keep going.
00:04:47.160 What is applicant to be part of?
00:04:48.800 Okay, online applications, information, your applications, reviewed, five-member panel.
00:04:54.020 The top scores for, okay, go a little bit lower.
00:04:57.500 Who funds us?
00:04:59.060 There's a 501c3 panel with grassroots support from hundreds of individuals.
00:05:02.260 Okay.
00:05:03.200 All right.
00:05:03.580 Can we find out who funds cores?
00:05:05.220 Go last one. 0.63
00:05:06.380 Will I be publicly listed?
00:05:07.760 Your privacy and safety is top security?
00:05:09.640 Well, you guys screwed up.
00:05:10.920 Shit.
00:05:11.860 Whoopsie.
00:05:12.340 If you do apply, they're going to know.
00:05:13.720 And doesn't this show you how the Democratic Party is in shambles?
00:05:18.020 They're going behind closed doors, dark secret money.
00:05:20.680 Notice how the Republicans have, you know, it's just organic.
00:05:23.560 The influencers are out there.
00:05:24.740 They're out in the open.
00:05:25.420 They're kicking ass because the Republican Party is. 0.62
00:05:27.940 This just shows you that they have to literally pay people, like, hey, please talk positive about us.
00:05:33.180 Make us look good.
00:05:34.080 Because the policies and everything is right in front of their face.
00:05:37.460 We need you to kind of slowly build it.
00:05:39.700 And that's where they're at, Tom.
00:05:41.120 They're in bad shape.
00:05:41.640 It's very, very simple.
00:05:43.080 Chorus coordinates consistent messages among these influencers.
00:05:48.020 Yeah.
00:05:48.480 Anti-conservative, whatever you want to call it.
00:05:50.640 They coordinate those messages.
00:05:53.280 The chorus sings together.
00:05:55.380 Wow.
00:05:55.700 The chorus stays in tune.
00:05:57.720 Wow.
00:05:57.880 Their branding has got a reason behind it.
00:05:59.940 The 1630 fund is sending money to chorus.
00:06:03.340 We like what you're doing.
00:06:04.920 Here's some bucks.
00:06:06.040 And then they get a monthly stipend.
00:06:08.460 To do what?
00:06:10.120 What is a monthly stipend?
00:06:11.740 To do what?
00:06:12.660 Oh, no, no.
00:06:12.980 We don't pay you to make content.
00:06:14.660 Nope.
00:06:14.940 We give you a stipend.
00:06:16.420 And then 1630 says we invest in organizations that provide operational support to other groups.
00:06:25.540 So chorus.
00:06:26.400 So 1630 says, Vinny, I'm going to give you money for operational support.
00:06:30.100 Yeah.
00:06:30.340 What does that intend?
00:06:31.300 Operate.
00:06:31.780 Keep those liberal voices operating.
00:06:34.320 Yeah, exactly.
00:06:34.680 And keep them singing the same tune.
00:06:36.360 Yes, sir.
00:06:36.660 That's it.
00:06:37.280 Yes, sir.
00:06:37.480 There it is.
00:06:37.960 I have nothing more to say.
00:06:39.020 That's what's going on here.
00:06:40.540 So they are.
00:06:41.480 And by the way, it's the same thing that we were concerned about when we would show all the news media.
00:06:46.860 Do they all get a notice in the morning from somewhere?
00:06:49.280 Remember all those clip assimilators that were put together and you'd find out the news media was saying the same thing in the same way on the evening news all across USA?
00:07:01.760 Gosh, where did they all get the playbook?
00:07:03.460 This is just a playbook for influencers.
00:07:05.440 Rob, can you go back and ask ChadGBT the following question?
00:07:08.200 Ask the question of who funds chorus dark money.
00:07:12.540 Okay, there you go.
00:07:13.100 So let's see this.
00:07:14.300 Primary funder, 1630 fund.
00:07:16.120 Okay, so the 1630 fund, prominent liberal dark money, nonprofit that operates fiscal chorus, collects and administer donations.
00:07:22.680 1630 fund has dispersed up to $8,000 a month to about $90.
00:07:26.220 Okay, we read that.
00:07:26.900 Larger network and known backers, larger networks and known backers are Arbella Advisors, Washington, D.C.-based philanthropic, philanthropic consulting, administer 1630 fund.
00:07:37.680 Arbella manages a network of politically oriented nonprofits, including New Venture Fund, Hopal Fund, Windward Fund, North Fund, and others.
00:07:45.880 Okay, known financial contributors are Hansorg Wiss, a Swiss billionaire who has donated $245 million.
00:07:52.020 Interesting.
00:07:52.780 Okay, so we've got to come back and see who he is.
00:07:55.140 Rob, can we actually go to see who that guy is?
00:07:57.020 Hansberg Wiss?
00:07:58.500 Pierre Oudmiddar is co-founder of eBay.
00:08:01.280 Who is Hansberg Wiss?
00:08:04.860 So a Swiss billionaire.
00:08:07.120 He's a Swiss billionaire entrepreneur.
00:08:10.200 Why does he have interest in politics?
00:08:12.160 That's what I'm trying to find out.
00:08:14.140 He launched a pledging of billion dollars towards 30% of Earth's land and water.
00:08:17.960 Okay, so he's a climate change guy.
00:08:19.020 Go a little bit lower.
00:08:20.560 Major contributor, Democratic and Progressive Caucus.
00:08:22.620 Okay, got caucuses.
00:08:23.700 Got it.
00:08:24.880 Wisdom is going to go online.
00:08:25.840 Chelsea, okay.
00:08:27.120 The horizon burn.
00:08:28.360 Okay, so go back.
00:08:29.600 Can you ask the question, what's his relationship with George Soros?
00:08:33.180 What's his relationship with George Soros?
00:08:37.440 Let's see what it says.
00:08:38.320 Zoom in a little bit.
00:08:40.000 There is no personal relationship.
00:08:42.780 However, they do operate in overlapping spheres.
00:08:45.460 Both have major philanthropic donors.
00:08:47.260 U.S.
00:08:48.120 Wiss Foundation.
00:08:48.840 Okay, 1635.
00:08:49.760 All right, go back.
00:08:50.440 George Soros through Open Society.
00:08:51.640 Okay, go back to the chat, GBT, to continue reading it.
00:08:55.260 Other disclosures.
00:08:55.960 Nick Connor, American Federation of Generals, and Mike Kuhnbrung.
00:08:58.640 Okay, $45 million.
00:08:59.980 Major of its funding.
00:09:01.320 Eight and a half million dollars.
00:09:02.480 These are the anonymous ones.
00:09:04.280 When was it founded?
00:09:05.420 2009.
00:09:05.820 By the way, Pierre Omidyar.
00:09:07.460 Yes.
00:09:07.820 He's the founder of eBay and the grandson of a general in the Imperial Iranian Army.
00:09:13.020 Really?
00:09:13.540 He served under Pahlavi.
00:09:15.640 Wow.
00:09:16.200 Okay, keep going a little bit more.
00:09:17.020 Now he's liberal.
00:09:17.920 Grandson.
00:09:18.520 Liberal.
00:09:19.820 So, yeah.
00:09:20.680 I mean, so what they're trying to do is what?
00:09:23.100 Just to give you talking points to say, can you talk about these points and be favorite,
00:09:27.420 you know, favoring what we're talking about?
00:09:31.480 Is that kind of what they're doing?
00:09:32.600 It's all about, right.
00:09:34.060 Social media is about trend.
00:09:36.220 Trend is momentum.
00:09:37.440 Momentum is reach.
00:09:38.520 Yep.
00:09:38.960 All they're trying to do is put together, I shouldn't say all they're trying to do, is
00:09:43.700 they're giving a bunch of money, dark money.
00:09:46.560 The dark money comes from all these people that don't want to be listed.
00:09:48.860 Whoops, there's a list.
00:09:50.300 And then 1630 gives that money over to Chorus.
00:09:53.520 Chorus makes sure everybody is singing the same tune.
00:09:55.920 And today, the word of the day today is authoritarian Trump gun control.
00:10:00.380 Go, Adam.
00:10:01.460 Yeah, great point.
00:10:02.180 Well, this is why people want to get big money out of politics.
00:10:06.000 I mean, this all traces back to the big decision in 2010, I believe it was, which was Citizens
00:10:11.380 United, and it happened under, I don't know if it was under George Bush or it was under
00:10:16.380 Obama, right around that time frame.
00:10:17.900 It was a John Roberts decision.
00:10:19.000 Okay, John Roberts decision.
00:10:20.120 It opened up unlimited corporate giving.
00:10:21.820 Yeah, exactly.
00:10:22.500 And we all remember when Chris Cuomo, shout out to you, buddy, basically called out the
00:10:27.600 big money, dark money donors, whatever you want to call it, at the DNC.
00:10:31.480 And this was following Bernie on stage, like, we got to get the billionaires out of elections.
00:10:38.480 We got to get the money out of this.
00:10:39.600 The billionaires, the billionaires.
00:10:40.760 Please welcome to the stage your next speaker, billionaire governor, J.B. Pritzker.
00:10:45.880 Hey, how you guys doing?
00:10:46.660 So if you want to see cognitive dissonance, look no further than the Democratic Party.
00:10:50.320 But here's Chris Cuomo basically calling out essentially what we're talking about.
00:10:53.980 How long is this clip, Rob?
00:10:55.220 One minute, 58 seconds.
00:10:57.940 Okay.
00:10:58.180 Greg, look at the ring of sweets.
00:11:00.020 Okay?
00:11:00.460 This is not unique to Democrats.
00:11:02.500 There is a game of money.
00:11:04.420 When people talk about Uniparty, we are strangled by the money reality in our politics.
00:11:11.020 Those sweets start at 500 grand.
00:11:13.380 Damn.
00:11:14.180 You think there's like a teacher group up in there?
00:11:16.500 Yeah.
00:11:16.820 You think it's like the Cub Scouts up in Columbia County, South Carolina, that's up in those boxes?
00:11:22.080 Some of them are lobbies and good things.
00:11:24.940 The media boxes, you think they're free?
00:11:27.040 Why do you think I'm on the floor?
00:11:29.380 News Nation is not a broke company.
00:11:31.640 Nextdoor is a massive organization.
00:11:33.680 We are corporate media.
00:11:34.920 We don't have one of those boxes because that's the game.
00:11:38.180 You pay to play.
00:11:40.280 Those boxes are filled with the same people that they say they're going to regulate.
00:11:43.800 They are literally looking down on the faithful and being told, this is a clip that's going to be around forever.
00:11:51.980 We're going to make them pay their share. 0.99
00:11:52.980 Rob, you can pause it right there.
00:11:54.620 We play this clip multiple times.
00:11:55.880 Great messaging.
00:11:56.920 It'd be great to get rid of lobbying, but in order to do that, it's going to be a lot of fighting going on.
00:12:03.720 But, Tom, what would happen?
00:12:05.860 Actually visualize 100% of lobbying is gone.
00:12:09.600 The biggest one being Big Pharma.
00:12:11.060 I think it's $350 million, whatever the number is.
00:12:13.800 Take all the lobbying out.
00:12:16.160 Pharma, real estate, insurance, APAC.
00:12:21.320 Take every one of these guys out.
00:12:23.240 What happens?
00:12:24.400 Well, if you take the lobbying out of it, there's going to be a lot more variability in our elections.
00:12:30.520 Because someone who's in the seat, who now has the people in their pocket, that's very hard to overthrow.
00:12:36.960 It is very, very, very, very, very hard to defeat a U.S. senator.
00:12:41.080 Go look at the number of incumbent senators.
00:12:42.900 There's, absent some terrible scandal that could, I shouldn't say overthrown, that sounds revolutionary, that are defeated.
00:12:49.780 The most powerful word in American election lexicon is incumbent.
00:12:56.100 Because incumbent means there are people that you are serving that want you to stay there.
00:13:01.880 And the industries have the lobbying behind it.
00:13:04.780 Pat, if that wasn't there and those lobbies were there, then it would be much easier for people with new ideas and new focuses to run against, especially in the perpetual two-year race.
00:13:17.080 Because it's every two years for congressmen, every two years.
00:13:20.640 Without that incumbent label, without all the lobbying money that they get, they would now be raising money from grassroots, people like you and me.
00:13:28.160 Or unions could give directly, but you wouldn't have the active lobbying groups.
00:13:35.880 Remember, there was one of the biggest white-collar crimes in Washington was, what was his name, Jack?
00:13:42.780 He always wore the little black bowler hat.
00:13:46.180 And he was a paid lobbyist.
00:13:48.040 Help me out, Rob.
00:13:48.640 You know what I'm talking about?
00:13:50.020 And he ultimately, no, we'll find him.
00:13:55.420 He used to wear that dark black jacket all the way down and the hat.
00:13:59.160 But anyway, there was an example.
00:14:00.960 Sounds pretty shady is what you're saying.
00:14:02.320 It was criminal lobbying that was going on, where the lobbying was going beyond.
00:14:09.000 And so without the lobbying, Pat, elections would normalize quite a bit.
00:14:14.740 And you would also have the following happen.
00:14:18.900 Laws that get passed would have more scrutiny.
00:14:22.660 Because the lobbyists, if you go look at it, what percent of laws that are sponsored by a congressman are actually written by lobbyists?
00:14:32.340 That's him right there.
00:14:33.280 That's a jacket right there.
00:14:34.580 That's him.
00:14:35.120 Yeah, that was him.
00:14:35.840 And he was the OG badass of lobbying until he got busted.
00:14:40.520 Pat, it reminds me of a picture that you showed about some scary guy in a movie.
00:14:43.680 So there's the two things, Pat.
00:14:44.860 That elections would be easier for new people with ideas.
00:14:48.340 And laws would no longer be written by lobbyists.
00:14:51.380 And then just say, OK, Patrick, we got you elected.
00:14:53.860 Here's the thing.
00:14:54.920 Put the bill through.
00:14:55.880 And the lobbyists are writing the bills.
00:14:58.160 Dirty secret.
00:14:59.120 Who could get rid of them?
00:15:00.440 And who doesn't want to get rid of them?
00:15:02.240 We need a Buford Pusser type character.
00:15:05.940 Would Trump get rid of them?
00:15:07.860 I would hope.
00:15:09.420 I would hope.
00:15:10.140 He's never talked about it, though.
00:15:11.240 He could be our Buford Pusser. 0.91
00:15:12.720 Because let me tell you, all of corporate America wants to lobbyists because it makes their lives more stable because you don't have regulation coming and going.
00:15:21.920 Corporate America wants it, especially energy and pharmaceutical.
00:15:25.300 They want it.
00:15:26.460 Who else wants it?
00:15:27.420 The unions want it.
00:15:28.640 It makes their lives more stable.
00:15:30.780 In what way do they play a positive role?
00:15:34.000 Is there anything positive that they play?
00:15:35.920 Well, when you see parent groups joining, when you have, OK, I'll give you a great example.
00:15:43.240 There is, oh, I just blanked on her name.
00:15:45.520 She's in Texas.
00:15:46.540 She's a doctor that was anti-vax. 0.61
00:15:48.520 She works at Houston Hospital.
00:15:50.380 She has a very vibrant Twitter account.
00:15:53.100 But she's been out there with grassroots people talking about.
00:15:57.200 Mary Bowden.
00:15:58.000 Yes, Mary Tally Bowden.
00:15:59.560 And she's been out there with Citizens Group.
00:16:01.640 There's an example of good.
00:16:02.860 They have been trying to lobby and get their voice heard about, you're wrong about the vaccine.
00:16:08.640 We have other data.
00:16:09.720 But they get drowned out by the big money.
00:16:12.300 And so small lobbying efforts, you know, that have a cause, sometimes they get vindicated like she.
00:16:20.280 They tried to cancel her how many times?
00:16:21.940 And now she's been vindicated that her and all the parents and the citizens that were saying there's other data, please listen, please.
00:16:30.360 They're pleading like little tiny voices in the night.
00:16:33.600 This is an example.
00:16:35.560 And now she's vindicated.
00:16:36.960 They were like, we're going to you're going to lose your medical license.
00:16:39.840 You won't be practicing.
00:16:40.860 And as soon as you lose your license, we're going to go after you for disseminating fraudulent information.
00:16:45.380 Well, guess what?
00:16:47.180 Guess what?
00:16:49.080 She did.
00:16:50.460 She's vindicated.
00:16:51.560 And now she's out there on podcast and on TV saying and you'll see things.
00:16:56.480 Mary, how did how did you, Dr. Bowden, how did you bear up under it?
00:17:00.300 We knew we were right.
00:17:01.220 We knew we had the data.
00:17:02.420 How did you get through that that that fog?
00:17:05.080 How did you move it?
00:17:06.040 I had the support of all these people that agreed with us.
00:17:08.460 We're doing it.
00:17:08.960 And that's an example, Pat, of a good lobby.
00:17:12.020 And now we find out that she was absolutely correct.
00:17:15.500 I don't think lobbying is all bad.
00:17:17.260 There's certainly pros and cons in it.
00:17:19.120 Like, for instance, you know, when I go to these Fonseca insurance type conferences, we go to the Hill and try to educate our congressmen on the benefits of financial services and, you know, using our expertise that helps the general public and representing interests.
00:17:33.700 And all these groups are special interests.
00:17:35.240 I don't have a problem with that.
00:17:36.380 But the problem when when you can just, you know, you hear they're bought and paid for, bought and paid for, bought and paid for when you have so much money, whether it's the farmer groups or whether it's big oil or whether it's a big, big war, you could buy these politicians and put them in your pocket.
00:17:51.820 And then that's how you get crony capitalism.
00:17:53.960 That's how you get corruption.
00:17:55.260 So I don't know the happy medium of it, but it's certainly getting out of hand.
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00:18:20.840 I think whatever the next rate is, and then the next rate will give you more access, videos, all that other stuff.
00:18:25.860 And especially last week when we posted a video with Tom doing the push, the, what do you call it, benching 135 pounds.
00:18:32.060 Absolutely crushed it.
00:18:33.340 Monster.
00:18:33.580 Killed it, Tom.
00:18:34.740 You're the new mayor now.
00:18:35.820 Real.
00:18:36.340 And I got so much hate telling me I was doing half bench presses.
00:18:40.960 So I have to go and do it again.
00:18:43.500 And I'm going to pause.
00:18:44.680 And I'm going to do this.
00:18:45.980 And I'm going to pause.
00:18:47.220 And what I'm probably going to do after today is I'm going to do that with a pause to see how many I'll do.
00:18:53.680 But it'll be only on The Circle.
00:18:54.460 Do a pause.
00:18:54.500 Do a story.
00:18:55.180 I'm going to do a pause.
00:18:56.500 And be like, how you doing?
00:18:57.440 And then boom.
00:18:58.120 But also you do the whole leg up, like this whole deal.
00:19:01.180 Well, they're saying I'm not going straight enough.
00:19:04.040 And I like being challenged.
00:19:05.460 So maybe if I do straight arms, I can only do three of them, four of them.
00:19:09.060 But we'll test it up.
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