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July 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 7, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying, which has made me, your host, a huge target everywhere in this country.
And that's just fine.
Keep the Salvos coming.
It's open line Friday.
Let's roll.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
That's right.
And when we go to the phones, the show is all yours.
Meaning you can bring up whatever you want to bring up.
Talk about whatever you want to talk about.
It's not the case Monday through Thursday.
But it is on Friday.
It's um say a huge career risk.
That I take, allowing rank amateurs so much control over the program.
I wouldn't say it's a career risk.
It may be a show risk.
But nevertheless, we deal with it because you people are good.
Even though you might be rank amateurs.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 in the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Bob Mulholland, senior advisor to Democratic nominee Phil Angelitas, aims for controversy this morning, saying with North Korea leader Kim Jong-il back in the news, it reminds me that he and Schwarzenegger have something in common.
Both have their shoes specifically made to add a couple inches of lift.
What we don't know is does Kim Jong il have his shoes made by Schwarzenegger's shoemaker in Italy.
Hillary is hosting a fundraiser for Angelitas today in San Francisco.
Now, you may have forgotten this, but in 2003, Bob Mulholland warned Arnold Schwarzenegger that, quote, real bullets will be coming his way during his campaign to be governor.
Remember that?
Schwarzenegger's gonna find out that unlike a Hollywood movie set, the bullets coming at him in this campaign are gonna be real bullets, and he is gonna have to respond to them, warned Mul Holland.
People are off the the off the cliff now, folks.
The the they've gone over the edge.
They really have.
They're plummeting into the abyss.
They don't even know it.
Um Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad has warned today that continued Israeli strikes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip could lead to an explosion in the Islamic world that would target Israel and its supporters in the West.
Uh Ahmadinizad questioned Israel's right to exist again.
He said this is a fake regime.
It won't be able to survive.
I think the only way forward is that those who created it, the West take it away themselves.
The president told a rally in Tehran to support uh the Palestinians.
Um, what what he means by I read there was a really long interview of this guy in Der Spiegel back in May, and he just I mean, is obviously anti-Semitic, hates Jews, hates Israel, and wants it not to exist.
But his main point is is that, hey, we didn't do anything to the Jews in the Holocaust.
The Europeans did.
Put Israel in Europe.
Bring the Jews back there.
If you want to make amends, put them up there.
We don't want them here.
That's his uh.
That's his theory.
But he he keeps he keeps talking about blowing up Israel.
What's the oil price up to over $75 now?
This guy is along with the speculators, is uh manipulating the oil price uh uh quite uh artfully, I would say.
Another soundbite here from uh the President Bush press conference today in Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry.
This is the one that Snurdly uh has recommended, so we'll see how good a producer, Snerdley is.
This is Suzanne Malvo of CNN talking to the president.
Why shouldn't Americans see the U.S. policy regarding North Korea as a failed one?
It's time to get things done.
What objectives has the U.S. government achieved when it comes to North Korea, and why does the administration continue to go back to the same platform process if it's not effective in changing North Korea's behavior?
Uh, Suzanne.
These problems didn't arise overnight and they don't get solved overnight.
It takes a while.
Again, I think if you look at the history of the North Korean weapons program, it started probably in the eighties.
We don't know.
Maybe you know more than I do about developing increasing the number of nuclear weapons.
My view is we ought to treat North Korea as a danger.
Take them seriously.
No question that he has uh signed agreements and didn't stick by them.
But that was done during uh when we were at bilateral negotiations with him.
And it's done with during the six party talks.
You asked what we've done, we've created a framework that will be successful.
My judgment is you can't be successful if the United States is sitting at the table alone with North Korea.
You run out of options very quickly if that's the case.
Which leads us, if okay, if the president says, well, we can't we can't succeed if we're alone at the table with North Korea.
What does that mean?
Interesting call with a theory on that.
Let's go to Cincinnati.
David, thank you for waiting.
I appreciate it, and welcome to the program.
Muchos dedos, El Rushbo from the COVID.
Thank you, sir.
Muchos gracias.
Illegal immigration capital of Southwestern Ohio.
What's your theory on this North Korea business?
El Rush, though, my theory is just this.
The West, it's particularly the United States has been at war with Russia and the Soviet Union since the end of World War II.
This is not about the dog eating uh little potbellied, potbellied dictator, yes.
Thank you, of North of North Korea or Amadina John and the Syrian terror alliance.
This is about the Sino Ruski conspiracy against the United States that has been going on since I said the end of World War II.
We cannot uh an economic boycott will not work as some consumer at try the year ago by boycotting all uh Chinese-made products.
You found out how impossible it was.
The only thing the United States can do is to exploit the natural antipathy and paranoia between those two communists or former communist regimes, if you will, uh, to our advantage.
Uh any time the Chinese want to, as you well know, they can turn off the natural gas and oil and and food spigots to North Korea, and they would die on the vine overnight.
They choose not to for their reasons, for the reasons I just articulated.
Well, I think, you know, there's an interesting piece today, uh, Bill Gertz, uh, inside the ring column in the Washington Times, and this guy Gertz, and we've had him on this program before, Gertz is wired.
He has got sources uh that the drive-by media are envious uh to the to the gills that he has, as jealous as they can be.
Uh and as such, Gertz is not permitted in the club of the drive-by media.
When Gertz leaks something, they get all over him for leaking it.
They leak something, they're heroes, and they want Pulitzer prizes.
Gert's piece today says, Pentagon officials tell us that China's government failed utterly to come through on private pledges to the Bush administration to halt North Korea's missile tests.
Worst, uh, some officials say it's likely that Beijing deceived the U.S. about its efforts to dissuade North Korea from the apparent tests, and that China may have tacitly backed the seven missile launches earlier this week.
One official told Gertz this demonstrates how impotent the Chinese are and the incredibly low level of influence they have over their North Korean brethren.
Well, I don't know.
It might mean that I happen to think here that David in Cincinnati is right.
I think the the uh the the unstated secret.
The big elephant in the room, any time we start talking about North Korea and we want to go to the Security Council and we want to get a joint resolution condemning them and dealing with them, guess who it is that always steps up to oppose it?
The Chinese and the Russians.
Now we are we are economically uh interlinked with both of these countries, but primarily China.
Uh we're linked in incredibly economically with them.
But there is uh uh there's a large school of thought that says China is preparing for war against us, that they're threatened by us and that they would assume and hope that we would not be the lone superpower, uh, and not by virtue of them becoming a superpower, but by reducing us as not being one.
In other words, they are our enemy.
And you know something, folks.
I I um I'm I'm just gonna wild guess here, but remember when uh President Hujunto uh came here to have his uh meeting with the president.
this was a diplomatic nightmare in a sense, because the Chinese wanted an official state visit with a big time state dinner, an official greeting, a pomp and circumstance, the whole mess.
The White House didn't want that.
They wanted Hugent Toll to come to Crawford to go out and have talks while chopping logs.
And of course, Chinese didn't want any part of that.
So the compromise was to do this big pomp and circumstance arrival with a luncheon.
And the press conference, you remember that the Fulan gong uh uh woman interrupted the press conference, started shouting insults and pleas at President Bush saying, please stop him, he's a murderer, so forth and so on.
This unprecedented.
These kinds of things with that kind of security, uh, you know, uh some somebody in the media gave her a credential and she got in there, but you just know that the Chinese were seething over there.
I don't care what they said to Bush uh privately and how they assured him during the uh diplomatic channels afterwards, you just know they were seething.
And they might have even suspect, because they are paranoid.
It might have suspected the whole thing was done on purpose.
Who knows?
It may have been, for all I know.
But the point is, Hugent Tolkien can go back to China and be all livid about this, and for that reason alone, who knows, uh want to undermine any effort that we might make stabilize North Korea.
But I think it's clear that China does not want to stabilize North Korea.
I think they want us distracted uh in places like Iran and North Korea.
And I think that's why China and North Korea and the uh uh Iranians have have deals to exchange nuclear technology and so forth, and Russia is in bed with the Iranians uh militarily uh in a number of uh ways as well.
It's it's lonely at the top, folks.
It's uh it's lonely at the top.
We're the big guys, we think we're the good guys.
The other people don't.
Uh we are a huge threat to them by virtue of our existence.
They have uh they have an impression of us that many liberals in this country have, and that is we want to wipe everybody out that's not like us.
And that's why we have nukes.
And uh they they they firmly believe this.
And that they're always standing in our way at the Security Council.
You can count on Russia and China when this situation, just like you can count on France and Germany when it came to the Iraqi situation.
When you go to that situation, you find that there were uh multi-level economic ties, uh, even with the oil for food program and even some weapons of mass destruction between France and uh and Germany.
So you can you can learn a lot by always say by following the money.
But in in this case with China and uh and Russia, I think it it's it probably it is the elephant in the room.
The dirty little secret is those two countries really represent the huge I don't know say threat, but that's with whom we are really at quote unquote war uh in all of this.
And I think in Iraq, uh, and I have said this and I said this many years ago, I think Iraq is actually uh first stages perhaps of war with Iran.
I I uh not that that's gonna happen, but those two are linked.
China, Russia are linked where it comes to North Korea.
Uh I think we're just fortunate we have somebody that takes all this seriously and is willing to deal with it rather than uh appease and take steps that would weaken our position with all of these uh nations by giving in to their demands.
A quick time out will be back like the Clintons did with North Korea and Kim Jong-il.
This is why they have a nuke in the first place.
Stay with us, folks.
And welcome back, El Rushbo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have from the EIB Southern Command.
This is Scott in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey Russ, how are you doing today?
Fine, sir.
Thank you very much.
Good.
I've been uh curious about your operation that you have over there for years.
But one thing in particular.
Several times throughout the week, you'll always say the first hour or the second hour of the program is on its way to the museum of broadcast excellence by armored carrier.
Yes.
Why don't you just wait until the third hour is complete and send it all over at once?
Is it because you can't get enough insurance to carry the whole load or something?
What's up with that?
Uh as soon as the product is completed, it is it is it is shipped out of here via armored courier to protect it.
We also back it up digitally on several servers.
Uh uh you never know what's gonna happen in this in this county from hour to hour.
Uh and and so uh we we take every step possible to make sure that a completed product is saved for posterity in the archives.
Uh I mean to sit around here and wait for all three hours every day.
You just you just never know.
It's uh it's a standard operating procedure.
All right, I just thought maybe you couldn't find an insurer to carry the whole three hours at once the museum.
No, the insurance is not a insurance is not a not a problem.
The armored courier provides the insurance company.
They like the business.
I mean, uh I'm sure that they would go for just one trip a day, but you know it it's it's um it's just something I have learned over the over the course of uh of many years in broadcasting.
There's several broadcasts and tapes that I've lost uh that that don't exist or that weren't taped in the first one.
I'm talking about not this show, but earlier on in my career.
Uh and even some of the first couple years of this program are uh uh a couple shows are missing, and it's because we we didn't take steps on that day to preserve it.
So it's it's um and then this is I'm telling you, th this this is classical historical stuff being produced on this program each and every day.
Yeah, but with gas prices at all these days, I figure three trips is just unbelievable.
You must be rolling in the cash over there, but thanks for the call anyway.
Uh you know, it's a cost of doing business.
Uh well, you know, I uh it is what it is.
Um and besides, you know, when you when you're talking about paying your debt to history and and and uh uh endowing history uh as it were.
What what's gasoline prices?
Uh what what are gasoline prices when we're talking about history?
I I don't I don't concern.
Yeah, I I I I know what gas prices are.
I did I I actually have to remind me of this.
I'm actually pretty uh pretty pretty proud of myself, folks.
I actually went to gas station the other day myself because the staff screwed up and forgot to fill up the car.
And it had uh it only had three quarters of a tank, half a tank had a half a tank in there, and I've I have strict orders, never anything less than three quarters of a tank.
You never know when you have to make a big getaway and how far you're gonna have to go.
And I can't, you know, it's risky for me to get out of a car anywhere, uh, such as a gas station or whatever, to to fill up, and uh most of them don't have self-service.
I pulled into a gas station the other day, and uh uh uh the one that that we always use, and there's a self-serve pump there, so two self-served pumps.
When I drove up, there was a sign.
This pump is uh is uh they're they're full surf pump, rather.
They're two full surf pumps, and there was a sign that says this pump is self-serf today.
So I said gulped.
I said, Oh my gosh, what do I do now?
Um I got out and I I looked at the pump and I saw the four different octanes.
I said, okay, I know what the best and the highest.
And I saw instructions saying, what do you do?
I looked for the credit card slot, there was no credit card slot.
Sign said, go inside and pay agent first.
Okay.
Walked in there, and I said, I want to fill it up and I'm pumped whatever out there.
Is that your car?
Yes, and I want to I want to fill it up.
Well, how much?
I said, I don't know how much it's gonna be.
So I I I I gave her I gave her uh the a hundred dollars.
The price at this pump was like four dollars and forty cents, because it was the full surf pump.
So uh after after I filled it up, and it came to about sixty-four bucks uh with just half a tank.
And I I said, okay, well, uh went in and and uh she counts out the change and I I let her keep thirty dollars of the change.
She stared at it.
You what this is for me.
I said, yeah, yeah.
Just and and when I walked out, this is the real funny thing.
When I walked out, another card pulled up to the full surf pumps.
And there's a guy pumping gas in his car and washing the windshield.
And I walked up to him, I said, I thought this was self-serve today.
He said, No, the signs backward, you pulled in in the wrong direction.
Uh so I said, Well, I'm sorry, I did your job for you.
He said, Yes, you did.
And I I learned something in the process.
So I gave him the remainder of the change uh as a tip for having uh encroached on his job and and uh so making him look useless and irrelevant.
Uh so it all ended well.
It all it all it all ended well.
But I mean the the point is the price of gas is the price of gas.
Um and when it comes to preserving this program for history uh and endowing history via the Limbaugh broadcast museum, gas prices uh will be of always uh secondary uh importance.
Staten Island, Jerry, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Good day, sir.
How are you doing?
Just sir, fine, sir, now very well.
Okay, you had uh Schumer earlier complaining about how New York is not getting the funding for security.
Yeah, Yet because Bloomberg's unrepentant policy of maintaining New York as a sanctuary city, you had him talking yesterday.
Yeah.
Uh he's breaking federal law.
Uh, you know, I'm sorry to say it because I'm a New Yorker, but we shouldn't get one penny of support until he does.
And yet, wait, whoa, whoa.
Well, breaking federal law by having New York as a sanctuary city.
Right.
Are we breaking immigration law like Los Angeles and uh Houston?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know what it is.
I hadn't looked at it that way.
You have a point.
Because Bloomberg did go out and say the city would crumble without the illegals and the slave laborers that we have here.
Right.
So Churtoff should say, well, then fine, then we're not gonna give you another penny.
Well, the U.S. still able to do the job and catch terrorists despite the fact that we got no money.
I understand it's fun to ponder.
I love New Yorkers.
I just I do.
Uh but but it th the political reality of that, uh they would they would never just never give New York Zilch.
Umly certain people are ever really held accountable to the law, folks.
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Now look, folks, I know what the House of Representatives is.
I know what the guy from Staten Island is talking about.
The House of Representatives working on a a new bill or a I guess it's a bill resolution that would ban all federal funding to any city that that that declares itself a sanctuary city.
Most of the sanctuary cities in the country are to be found on a left coast, like San Francisco and Santa Cruz, and the sanctuary city actually goes back to the uh the days of the Nicaragua Contra battle and uh the battles in El Salvador uh and so forth.
But but uh today it would include terrorists, anybody else who wants to come in uh that's got a grievance against the United States, um uh they will be given sanctuary.
New York is one of those places because Bloomberg Bloomberg is has declared it.
So the Republicans in the House coming up with this legislation to to take away all funding.
Now, I don't want to strip you of any joy uh over the motion here, but it ain't gonna happen.
Uh my guess is it's it's uh it's uh uh and I hate to say this, but it's a politics is politics.
I think I think it's uh a campaign year issue.
Uh it is it is a way for members of the House to get footage of themselves proclaiming their support for this, uh have it in the congressional records on the campaign trail, they can go out and say, I made sure that the sanctuary cities were gonna be defunded and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But I guarantee you, if this ever gets out of the house and goes to the Senate, John McCain will use it as toilet paper.
Uh George W. Bush would never sign this.
It just it isn't gonna happen.
And as I said, I'm sorry to strip your joy from this, but it's uh it's political posturing, and I'm I'm not afraid to admit that our guys do that.
It's uh sometimes clever politics when it comes time to being re-elected, which is the second most important thing a politician does.
First is spend money, and that's oriented toward getting re-elected.
Uh let's see.
John in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Uh good afternoon, Russ.
Afternoon.
Uh I've been uh a listener since 1988 or 89.
By the way, congratulations on the budget deficit there, the budget crisis being solved and the casino's opening up soon.
Congratulations on that.
Congratulations on the new sales tax.
Congratulations on the new property tax.
Uh just great to be a New Jersey, right?
We're just perking right along here.
We're uh living large and loving life.
I was just I was just wondering how many Snerdleys have worked for the EIB network.
I think I can count three.
Three?
Who do you think what what what what are the snerdleys that you remember?
Well, it seems to me there was a Bob.
No, there was never a Bob Snerdley.
Uh okay, it was it was a hot thing.
No, it was Chin Yang.
And uh, of course, Bo, who uh, you know, is uh here's here here here are the name the Snerdley family's legion here at the at the EIB network.
The first one was uh Melva.
Melville Snerdley was the very first call screener of the EIB network, 1988, August 1st, when we uh started the program.
Then there was uh Marvin Snerdley, there was Mervyn Snerdley, there was Melvin Snerdley, and Chin Yang.
He was he was adopted.
Uh Chin Yang snurdly was adopted and he was just an an intern.
Uh and of course the most famous of the snerdleys is Bo.
Uh Bo Snerdley.
So there have been what is that?
Five?
That's six.
That's So there have been six Snerdleys over the course of our almost eighteen years here at the EIB network.
Well, they've been a great support group, and I hope they have gone on to bigger and better things.
Oh, uh everybody that leaves this program, and so few so f so few people leave this uh program uh uh uh uh John because there is no bigger and better uh to go to.
Uh some have left and have discovered that.
Um they they left trying to I mean I uh the the the there wasn't any place left here for them to go.
Most of the snerdleys have been call screeners.
And uh after a while you you uh you want to take the experience that you've learned and parlay it.
And some have gone on to uh I don't even know some of the jobs.
One what was it?
Uh I think it was it was Mervin uh who ended up carrying a camera for inside edition or some such thing.
In fact, I'll tell you a little story about Merv Mervyn Snerdley was probably the most disrespectful and the most problematic Snerdley that that I have on the uh head on the staff.
Uh no, this he was not suspended.
Uh Bo was suspended once for for yelling at callers, but no, and I think it was Mervyn.
Uh but you know, uh when I I hate walking.
If I despise it, I hate it, except when playing golf.
I literally hate it.
To walk for the sake of it is the biggest waste of time.
It is boring.
Twenty-four.
If I go on a treadmill, which I tried this once and I don't do it anymore.
See, people said, well, just watch something you really like on television where the time flies and do that at a treadmill.
So fastest going show in my life is 24.
Zip zip zip zip.
I felt like I've took me two hours to watch the thing after being on the treadmill for 40 minutes.
And I said, Who needs this?
Well, it well, it's been well known that I uh don't like to walk.
Uh when I first got to New York, uh I I uh leave the EIB building and head to the nearest corner and hail a cab or what have you.
And Mervin said, let me give you a ride home.
Let me give you a ride home.
You don't need to mess around with cabs.
He said, Where's your car park?
It's real close.
It's just it's just a lot right right across the street.
His lot was twelve blocks away.
It was a trick to get me to walk twelve blocks.
Uh and it was not long after Mervyn was also the snerdly that we sent into McDonald's to buy two hundred Big Macs uh in Manhattan on Eighth Avenue once the uh uh when the the global warming environmental crowd was going nuts over cow flatulence.
Anyway, that that's recent history of uh of the Snerdley family.
Mine not North Dakota, this is Brad, your next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
How are you doing?
Fine, sir, thank you.
I um I've been a huge fan of yours since I was in the sixth grade, like the guy on the report you played in the first hour.
My dad got you turned uh turned on to uh your TV show.
Thank you, sir.
So uh my question for you is though, do you think that Al Gore will be championed as the person who educated us all when the global warming cycle, the you know, the global heating cycle cools down, everything balances back out and even starts to go through the cooling cycle.
Is he gonna be the champion of the Democratic Party for you know enlightening us all?
I think he already is.
You think so?
Oh, I think I think if I'm reading you right, I I think Gore is already being heralded as the lone voice of reason on global warming.
Never mind the fact that that scientists at MIT and British universities are saying, this is nonsense.
What Gore is saying is nonsense.
He's out there saying the uh the uh guesswork is over, uh the uh controversy is over, it's time to act.
He's been he's been showing this slideshow that says we got ten years left for twenty years.
He may have been showing it for even longer by his own admission, he said this.
Uh this this slideshow that's in his movie, he created a long, long time ago.
Uh you ought to read, you ought to go online and and find your favorite local newspaper.
Uh go to the Florida Sun Sentinel, uh uh South Florida Sun Sentinel, go to the Palm Beach Post and just go to the letters to the editor and and uh read what these I I read one the other day.
Some guy uh wrote in, I forget which newspaper it was, but uh it was one of those two, and he was saying we all need to see Al Gore's movie.
Members of Congress ought to be required to watch this and act on it.
Uh it's reading letters to the editor in a liberal community newspaper is like reading a liberal blog.
So I'm telling you that people already have anointed Gore as the as the hero on this and the lone spokesman, uh, and he will be championed as having educated us all.
And I'll guarantee you this.
Let's say that your hypothetical happens.
Let's say that in the next ten years, uh this this uh there's an obvious change in the warming of the planet, and I'm not even conceding that it's that great right now.
In fact, I read something the other day that says in the last four years, surface temperatures on average have not gone up, they've gone down one-tenth of a degree Celsius.
If they're trending anywhere, they're trending down the last four years.
Gore talks about what global temperatures were 650,000 years ago.
What measurements did the people, what if human Cromagnon, Neanderthal, whatever they were, what measurements were they using to take temperatures, and then where did they record those temperatures for Al Gore to go find them in the historical record?
To claim you know what the temperatures were 650,000 years ago, even if you do.
What in the world was man doing back then to cause any fluctuation in them, as opposed to what man is supposedly doing, not man Americans, uh supposedly doing today.
Bottom line is this.
If there happens to be a noticeable measurable reduction in global temperatures, uh rather than Al Gore being proved wrong, and rather than all of the global warming alarmists being proved wrong, what do you bet that the template for that story becomes thanks to the consciousness raising of brave Americans like Al Gore and other scientists that want to get named?
The conclusion will be that enough citizens of the planet heard the warning and made adjustments, will credit the hundred thousand hybrids on the road, will credit something uh that these guys supposedly caused to happen as the result uh or as the reason the temperature fell.
Uh I'm telling you, this is etched in stone now, so uh whatever happens.
It's like here, try this story.
Where's this from?
Uh I think this is Reuters, AP Nutsure which wildfires may be linked to global warming.
Of course they are.
Of course they are.
What isn't?
The increase in the number of large Western wildfires in recent years may be a result of global warming, researchers say.
And analysis of data going back to 1970 indicates the fires increased suddenly and dramatically.
In the 1980s, uh Reagan and the wildfire season grew longer, according to scientists in Arizona and California.
The increase in large wildfires appears to be another part of a chain of reactions to climate warming, said Dan Cayenne, uh co-author of the paper, director of the climate research division at Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
He said that while part of the increase may be attributed to natural fluctuations, maybe.
Uh evidence also links it to the effects of human-induced climate warning.
Uh the scientists have been increasingly concerned in recent years about the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh yeah, this whole story.
There is not one mention, not one of the asinine, stupid environmentalist wacko-inspired laws that prevent us from harvesting forests and getting rid of the underbrush and the dead tinder.
It becomes these forests because you can't go in there, you can't clear them, you can't do anything anymore.
They become natural kindling for lightning strikes.
Are we gonna actually say that lightning strikes are a result of global warming?
Since when did we not have lightning?
We wouldn't want to give away the real reason we have more fires, would we?
The real reason we have more fires is environmentalist wackos whining that we're destroying all the trees, and so we can't go in there and get rid of the underbrush that's dead and just serves as kindling.
So now nature does it.
Fire goes in there, takes out the dead forests, and they get to blame it on the new deity of their religion, global warming.
But they're not fooling us.
Back after this, stay with us.
Y'all.
Yeah.
Old buddy Billy Gibbons Z Z Top never did send those custom bumps he promised me.
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We forgot a Snerdly.
We forgot Mario.
Mario Snerdley, there were seven Snurdlies.
It was Mario who tricked me into walking all those blocks to get to his stupid beat-up Jalopi car to uh to take me home.
Mario Snerdley, the biggest provocateur of the Snurdleys.
And in fact, it was Mario Snerdling.
I'm gonna f I'm gonna unburden myself with something because I have taken the heat for this for I don't know how long, and I've always been on the theory account.
I'm the guy at the top, and so I will take the heat.
When somebody in my in my organization makes a mistake, it's mine, and I'll take the heat.
And I I, you know, d I'm I'm really I'm not being chintzy about this, because I actually did it, so it ultimately is uh my responsibility.
But some of you may remember back, I guess it was 19 89 or 90, where we required for a a period of time any woman, any female calling the program had to have a photo on file.
Uh that was that was Mario Snerdley's idea.
And uh, well, it would it was a lot of fun.
And we there was tremendous response to it.
Uh uh Dawn's in there shaking her head.
I know how uh you women in the audience are reacting to this.
You just it it it didn't well, it went over with some women, but but uh got me in a well, some pictures are quite interesting.
Those uh uh on the rocks out in uh Carmel Bay.
Uh but uh uh nevertheless I remember one night we went into Bimmelman's, which is the uh bar at the Cafe Carlisle, a Carlisle Hotel in New York, and uh dad some singer in there singing with a piano player playing, and was in there with my sister-in-law, my brother, before he was homeless.
And uh CBS Patricia still wanders around town in Cape Girarde.
At any rate.
My sister-in-law, and there was another couple, and uh and and so the two women just started berating me over this.
Why would you take it personally?
I said, What?
I've never asked for your picture.
And they just thought it was cheapening uh and and horrible and terrible.
And finally we had that we had to suspend it.
The pressure just got um pretty uh pretty pretty it was just you know, fun, young guy on the prowl kind of thing to do.
Snurdley still wants it done.
Uh, but no, we've we've moved beyond that.
But it was Mario Snurdley's idea.
That's the uh that's the point.
Uh Kathy and Peoria, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
I started watching 24 on your recommendation, and I was really delighted when I saw that they got twelve Emmy nominations.
Yeah.
I started looking for all the Emmy news, which I never have looked at ever before.
Yeah.
So I started looking online, and online I see, you know, the other you know winners, or the other nominees, I should say, 24 a win.
And they were always listed first, even though they got fewer nominations than 24.
And so I started looking at other websites, and it was across the board everywhere.
They mentioned the other nominees instead of 24.
And I started watching some of the TV coverage on it.
Same thing.
They blew off 24 like it was nothing and kind of went on to the other one.
You know, it's now you I've you're you're the second person that has mentioned that to me.
I myself did what you did when I saw that they got uh twelve Emmys.
I I couldn't have cared less than the past, but Emmy nominations.
I mean, I think that that's a business takes itself way too seriously.
Uh but a lot of businesses do, but uh uh I I there was a Boston Globe review today.
Most of what I'm seeing is uh that the experts, the television entertainment writers, don't like the new process that was somehow used to help underdogs get nominated.
Um but I haven't I haven't seen any direct hits at 24 for being nominated, nor at any of the actors, uh Greg Itsen and uh Gene Smart and uh Kiefer Sutherland.
So I haven't seen it the way you're seeing it, and I was on the lookout for it too, by the way.
I don't think where they list the nominees in the in the stories hasn't to do with uh uh personal preference on the part of the journalists in this case.
Gotta run here because of time.
Folks, I've been saving this news so as to disappoint you as little as possible.
Uh I will not be here next week.
I am going on vacation.
Sorry.
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