I've heard him say stuff like this before, but not with that kind of desperation that I feel coming from him. Like I said, it's coming off a really long sales pitch for this new special, and all I can hear is this, like, ratings are not good at the local stations. No one wants to buy ads on those stations. All I hear is Alex signaling that he is in jeopardy of losing some of these stations unless people who are pulling for him step in and buy ads. Not as a sound financial decision, but as an ideological move to support him.