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Dec. 15, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 15, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Where is the official program?
Oh, there you are.
I was pondering how in the world can we start the the big program here without the official program observer seated and observing.
But he's seated and observing, and we're all here.
We feel like we never left.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Rush Limbaugh program.
It's Friday, so let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Oh, goody goody gum drops.
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On this day, every week, we go to the phones.
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Uh pretty much about whatever you want, other than the cost of living.
We don't talk about that.
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Well, as you know, uh, we were talking about it during the program yesterday.
We uh we had uh record rainfall uh yesterday, right here.
Uh down in Miami, they got less than an inch, less than half an inch in Miami, which is just 67 miles down the road.
We had over eight and a half inches here yesterday, and uh the whole crew here, all four of us, we did not get out of here until 11 o'clock last night.
Because the the uh the parking garage here is below street level, and it had three feet of water in it.
Uh there was a car in there.
It was a Mercedes, and we were happy to see a Mercedes get ruined because we have class envy here.
I'm glad it wasn't some little Toyota thing.
A Mercedes was ruined in the uh parking garage.
The owner couldn't be found, the keys were nowhere to be found.
He was he was off at a meeting someplace.
Uh it was it was a mess, folks.
It was literal mess.
And the the building owner, when El Chepo got one tiny little pump that was removing about an inch or inch and a half of uh water per hour.
None of us well, Snurdley uh and and uh Brian were able to drive out because they've got these behemoth SUVs.
Uh the water level was what, 15 inches when you guys left 15 to 17 inches.
As long as uh you're above the tailpipe, it's no problem.
Water gets a tailpipe, then uh you have big problem.
I could not get my car out, had to traipse.
Now, folks, this is so demeaning to me.
I had to actually walk down some steps.
And and then I had to traipse through about an inch of water that was still in the lobby floor uh in my dress shoes.
I mean, it was it was humiliating.
It was tough duty.
Uh and then one of my staff picked me up in a staff SUV.
I had a hat sitting around on the street like I'm hitching a ride.
Um thank goodness it was night and the street lights were not uh on, or I would have attracted a crowd.
And I can't just go to bed when I get home.
So I was up till two in the morning doing things that I would have done had I gotten home at a normal time.
It stopped raining.
This is the thing.
It stopped raining at three in the afternoon for all intents and purposes.
And we and it was not just us, although we are the most important people in this building.
Uh everybody in this building was stuck here for as long as we were.
Uh FEMA was no FEMA was nowhere to be found.
There was, and of course, you know, we we've got a very nice complex here.
So it wasn't bad.
I mean, it was just it it we it's just absurd.
You go down there and take a look at the progress on sucking the water out with that tiny little play school pump.
And it was just, it was what is this?
This is 2006 America.
Where do you think we are, Baghdad?
And it was just uh I I told these guys, this happened once before, but it was over a weekend back in the mid-90s.
And I told these guys of Brian's tomorrow, oh, they'll have it for about a half hour, an hour.
He's telling me this at 3 30 yesterday afternoon.
I said, Brian, we'll be lucky to get out of here tomorrow.
Oh, no, no, no.
They're working on it.
Pump kept blowing a circuit breaker.
They couldn't keep the pump running.
And that, of course, was our fault.
Uh the stairgood breakers are on our floor, of course.
Anyway, the uh the poor pump guys, there were two guys just standing here all night watching the pump pump an inch of water an hour.
I just standing there drove back in this morning, those poor guys are still standing there in the same place I saw them.
When I left, yes, pump observers.
That is exact exactly what it was.
At uh at any rate, we we found time to occupy ourselves here, but it was just it was frustrated.
Like we feel like we've never left.
And I I, of course, I had a dinner last night.
Couldn't go to the dinner, could nobody could come here.
Other residents of the building, tenants.
I didn't hear this personally, but Snerdley and Brian would go down there every ten minutes or so to check the water, just to prove me wrong.
Uh come back up, and one time they came up, said some of the tenants down there wondering if you're still here.
Why?
Well, they think that if you can get out, they could get out, and you probably call a chopper or do something.
And I said, No, I am I'm the most important person in the building, and I'm not leaving until everybody else can.
This was about leadership.
Last night.
Was there any what?
There was no looting other than my potato chips.
You guys are eating my potato chips and uh and and pretzels.
Uh no, there was no looting here at the uh at the building, although one guy, this is typical Palm Beach.
The reason this happened is because the street flooded and uh just it rolled into the bottom floor of our first floor of our parking garage, and it was really if you've seen any of the pictures, it was really more rain yesterday in a six-hour period than in the last two hurricanes.
Uh sorry, El Gore.
And uh one guy, Rolls Royce, just stalled because the the water in the street right in front of our complex here, and this the typical Palm Beecher, nobody else but him.
He just got out of his car and called a cab and left.
And the car, and a car stalled right in the middle of the road, blocking two lanes.
So they had to call a tow truck and so forth.
We're watching all of this, uh, saying, well, at least the Rolls-Royce guy is out.
We were stranded here last night, ladies and gentlemen, at the EIB, Southern Command, but all's well that ends well.
So, not much sleep last night.
Uh could be a giddy uh excursion into broadcast excellence today.
You know what that means.
We have audio sound bites.
I had these sound bites yesterday that I didn't have a chance to get to, but David Duke was on with Wolf Blitzer on CNN a couple of days ago, I think on Wednesday, it was about David Duke appearing at the Holocaust didn't happen convention with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in uh in Tehran.
And I mean, Duke, when you hear these, it's it's indescribable.
If you did, if you did if you missed it, uh we'll play it for you.
But Duke was just hammering blitzer and accusing him of all kinds of things, and Wolf is not used to uh having the uh uh uh interview taken to him uh that way.
So uh we'll play it just for the entertainment value.
The Duke Lacrosse accuser, can you believe this?
The Duke Lacrosse accuser gave birth to a baby.
She was sh she was not pregnant the night of the uh alleged rape by the lacrosse players.
Nobody, her identity has been more protected, and her whereabouts have been more protected than our soldiers in Iraq.
This is one of the strangest things.
Uh that one of the strangest legal cases uh that that's come down the pike.
And I have some comments about it because the nation and you uh need to hear what I have to say.
But now, first profit center timeout.
We'll come back and get started with all the rest of today's program.
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I should be honest, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Snerdley, very upset with me for lying to you about the dire circumstances we all faced in the flood and the aftermath of the flood last night here at the uh EIB Southern Command.
The rapes, the uh the murders that took place.
Uh nobody cared.
The media didn't show up.
Bush doesn't care.
There were three black people in this building, folks, and the White House never called them.
Nobody, nobody cared.
Nobody cared a whit about us.
Uh We had distress calls all over the place, but they sent one measly little pump.
We were stranded here.
No refrigeration.
All the food go under.
No, don't please understand here.
It's going to be a giddy day, ladies and gentlemen.
It really is.
I am barely awake here.
I mean, I'm awake, but I'm barely what?
Uh uh cogent.
Uh little story here, just hot off the printer, just came, was not in the original stack of stuff.
It's from the Chicago Sun Times.
Senator Barack Obama uh concerned about his personal security, telling the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board yesterday that he and his wife fear there is a potential for violence even if he does not run for president.
Being shot, obviously, that is the least attractive option, uh, said Barack Obama.
Uh Illinois Democrat told the Sun-Times he has concluded a 2008 White House bid would be viable and he would have a pretty good chance of winning the nomination.
Now, why is he concerned about being shot?
Perhaps this story might provide a clue.
It's a story from India, and it's in the Australian Times, the Australian newspaper.
Uh the headline, Raging Bull Elephant Osama to be shot dead.
An Indian state government has issued shoot-to-kill orders against a rampaging uh elephant named Osama bin Laden.
The rogue bull elephant has killed at least a dozen people in the Northeast Indian state of Assam in recent weeks, including three in a single day.
Now, you might what's this got to do with Osama uh uh Obama Barack Ears, folks?
It's the ears.
And we have a public service announcement about that, by the way.
You might The Big Ear Institute.
Now, if you're wondering what all this is about, let's go back to the archives.
This past Sunday in New Hampshire, Barack Obama held a press conference, and after the press, after it was over, the cameras and microphones kept rolling, and Obama made a beeline to uh the audience to talk to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and had this exchange with her.
Talk about my put you on notice.
I'm very sensitive about what I told him was I was pleased relentlessly when I was a kid about my beings.
Trying to toughen you up.
Just, you know, it's you know, I have a hearing problem, but doesn't she sound like Helen Thomas?
Yeah, in that bite.
It's Maureen Doubt, it's not Helen Thomas.
We're just trying to toughen you up.
But if you again to translate this for you, uh Barafa uh.
Obama charges into the audience, beeline for Maureen Dowd.
Talk about my ears.
I just want to put you on notice.
I'm very sensitive.
What I told them was I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.
We're just trying to toughen you up.
So when there's a rampaging elephant on a loose named Osama bin Laden in India, elephants have big ears, uh, and Barack tells the Sun Times that he's worried about being shot.
Maybe the two have a connection.
Now the um the accuser in the Duke Lacrosse case gave birth late yesterday at uh the University of North Carolina hospital.
Her pregnancy had not been public knowledge until now.
WRAL called her boyfriend's home Thursday night.
The person who answered the phone had no comment and then hung up.
The twenty-seven-year-old accuser gave birth nine months after she alleges she was raped by uh three Duke University Lacrosse players at a March 13th team party.
After the party.
She was taken to a local hospital to be examined.
A defense attorney told the TV station that a test taken at the hospital showed she was not pregnant at the time of the party, and that she was given emergency contraception, commonly referred to as the morning after pill.
Uh this week, as you know, attorneys in the case filed a motion which they said mail DNA from multiple sources.
I think it's like five, Was found on the accuser, none from their clients.
In another motion, they ask that the judge presiding over the case throw out the photographic lineup in which she identified the defendant, saying the IDs were the result of a tainted procedure.
So, let's put this in perspective.
The accuser, who has had both her pregnancy and her identity more closely guarded than our troops' movements and our national security secrets.
Yet the names and photos and addresses of the innocent men she falsely accused of raping her have been public all this time.
And there's even more.
You know, a lot of people are poleaxed by this.
These kids at Duke, in the face of a rape trial, and it's not scheduled to go to trial until next spring...
She has this baby almost nine months to the day of the rape, but she was not with child that night.
She had anti-pregnancy drugs to assure she would not get pregnant by the lacrosse team.
But she would thus then have to have had sex shortly after the party when she was so traumatized, am I right?
No, she did if well, depends on how early before they gave her the morning after pill.
Uh at that at the time that they examined her for um for rape and found the evidence that that there were five DNA prints that were not the uh the any of the uh of the of the so-called uh uh defendants in this case.
But see, here's the thing.
The DA here, this this nightong character, has said that she was so traumatized, so traumatized by the rape that she could not go to trial until spring.
He has kept her away from everybody, including her family, for nine months.
I guess when the video of her pole dancing a week after the rape got out, he had to lock her up in a basement.
I don't know who's been paying for her to live where and with her two kids, but it's uh this is very curious.
He's never even talked to her yet.
This is you know, the with the original surmise on this was that uh you know he was in a primary election and and uh in a in a very uh predominantly black area uh and had to get the black votes, and this is what this is all about, and then move the trial next spring.
Uh and these guys are still hanging and their their lives have been disrupted, and it's it's just a devastating thing.
Now this is raising more doubts, and justifiably so over this whole thing.
Uh the Brits have an idea to help stamp out obesity.
Oversized clothes should have obesity helpline numbers sewn on them to try and reduce Britain's fat crisis.
This, according to a leading professor.
Uh, new urban roads should only be built if they have psycholanes, according to Naveed Sathar, professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow.
He's calling for more government intervention with a central agency set up to deal with the problems of obesity.
Britain's fat problems so acute it could even bankrupt the health system if uh if nothing is done.
Why stop at uh what why why stop at uh these helpline numbers have official warnings?
A warning label in close for the fat and for the obese.
By the way, Philadelphia has joined the anti-trans fat crusade.
They haven't come up with the penalties yet, but they have uh instituted uh uh city ordinance that would ban 99% of all trans fats from Philadelphia restaurants.
Folks, is this all troubling here?
I mean, in terms of the government overreach and the nanny state and the assumption that nobody knows how to protect themselves.
Nobody knows what's good for them, only your friendly nanny state government, state, local, or federal, uh, has the slightest idea how to take care of you, because you are inept and incompetent.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and continue right after this.
Snerdley getting a lot of emails with questions about your conduct last night during the flood and its aftermath here at our building.
One wanted to know what time of night did you go up to the roof, start shooting helicopters?
Okay.
All right, we're back.
It's comical today, folks, to listen to the drive-by media worry and speculate about not the fate of Tim Johnson.
Now they're worried about the 82-year-old Daniel Akaka and Daniel in no way, the two senators from Hovayi, both Democrats.
Now they're worried about the health of uh Sheets Bird, 89 years old in West Virginia.
They're worried about this.
This this uh one seat majority very tenuous.
They're also worried that one of these Democrats might be cajoled into switching parties.
As you know, those nasty rascally Republicans.
They'll do anything to get their power back.
There's even the Democrat underground people are even speculating that uh that uh the the Republicans found a way to poison Tim Johnson just as they were behind the death of Paul Wellstone.
And it's extended now to beyond the blogs.
Yesterday, that blithering idiot Joy Behar actually raised the possibility.
The Republicans do something to him.
Is there something they could have done?
I think do we have the bite?
Let me look very yes.
Yes, audio sound bites three and four.
We'll go to the view yesterday discussing Tim Johnson.
Derry Alexander, one of the guest uh uh infobibs on the program said the Democrats took over in November by 5149 majority, and now if he has to resign, it'll make things 50-50 because the governor of that state's a Republican and in charge of putting an interim.
Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke?
In other words, did someone do this to him?
Maybe they gave the law.
They're applauding it.
This is a conspiracy.
I know what this party is capable of.
They were up, she thought the audience thought she's making a joke, or maybe not.
The audience of that this is this is a different planet.
And it has been on that show for a long, long time, but she raises the possibility.
In other words, did someone do this to him?
And then Elizabeth Hasselbeck said, Why why does everything come from the liberal perspective have to be conspiracy?
I know what that party is capable of.
Bayhard then uh got another question Well, well, the the thing that's sad about this is it takes a political angle when a guy is critically ill.
But there are millions and millions of people who depend upon this Congress.
Yeah, people in the world and people in this country.
And his illness is is sad, but it's not as important in the overall scheme.
There you have.
Now, this here is a liberal.
These are the people kind and patient and tolerant and compassionate and understanding.
And she just admits it doesn't give a rat's rear end about Tim Johnson.
No, what's more important is her liberal wacko d buddies uh maintaining control of the House of Representatives.
And remember, the oh, there's another great story here in the stack, too.
You know, the uh the Congressional Black Caucus has lodged a complaint uh to Nancy Pelosi, there aren't enough African American staffers in Congress.
On the Democrat side.
The Republicans have plenty of African American staffers.
They're cool.
Uh it's the Democrat.
So all of this, all of these stereotypes about liberalism, they are the tolerant ones, and they are the people, they're not racists, so and they're not bigots.
They're not hobophobes.
Uh they are kind and understanding and tolerant, patient and so forth.
Good people.
It's frankly, in most cases, it is just the opposite.
All right, to the phones, because it's open line Friday.
This is Margaret in uh Leavenworth, Kansas.
Nice to have you, Margaret.
Uh, yes.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
I'm afraid that you have taken the bait on the Obama ear thing.
The other day when I heard that, I said they that there's no accident that this is all over the radio.
They want, they want people that they want talk radio to take take this and run and start teasing Obama about his ears.
And every woman who has had a child is going to feel sorry for him.
And uh that I think that this is going to be the next election's biggest issue is how women are voting, just like it was during Clinton.
But yeah, but you're you're likely in the primaries anyway, you're gonna have women involved because you're gonna have Hillary there.
Well, I don't think I think when Tom Delay paired Obama and Hillary, that is the pair.
And that they're gonna have the feminist with Hillary, they're gonna have the single moms with Obama, they're gonna have all the blacks, they're gonna have to be.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Why are single women going to be drawn to Barack?
Is it the ears?
Well, yeah, single mothers, not single women, single mothers.
Single mothers.
Oh, well, okay, why are they gonna be that want you to make fun of their kid?
And they're gonna oh yeah, he's getting sympathy.
You know, this is not as you let me tell I know exactly what you're saying, but I don't think this was planned.
I think this is not this is the point.
This that was never you haven't heard that anywhere but on this show, have you?
Well, I don't know.
Well, you haven't.
Nobody's this was a press conference, and Barack Obama thought that the the microphones and the cameras were off, and he makes a beeline to Maureen Dowd because she's the one who teased him about his ears.
It's like everything else that happens with me.
I'm the one blamed for calling him Osama Obama when Teddy Kennedy got that started because he doesn't know what he was saying one day at the National Press Club.
Well, Mark's it was more it was gonna be a big issue, and it's gonna get a lot of people a lot of women to feel sorry for him.
I understand the risks that we're playing here, but you know, my I my job is not to get people elected or get them defeated.
I realize that.
But be but I tell you this the women are going to be a real problem in this next election for the for the Republicans.
Republicans have more problems than that.
Well, the biggest problem Republicans have is where are they?
Well, that's true.
Grab uh grab rev where all the conservatives gone, uh if you would, Ed.
We I mean, really, we've we put it we we're we have put this dilemma, this conundrum, this challenge to uh musical parody.
Have you heard this before?
Yes.
You have.
Well, we only played it once, so it must be you are a regular listener and loyal.
Yes.
I listen with earphones on.
Well, I appreciate it.
You know, you're not in prison in Leavenworth, are you?
No.
Okay.
Actually, um I might be.
I we have a small farm, and so I listen with my earphones on and I do my work.
See, you keep talking about ears.
Oh, yes.
No, I don't have an ear fed issue.
And you are blaming me.
All right, thanks for the call, Margaret.
Here we go.
Uh where have all the conservatives gone.
The parody of the big tune by Paula Cole.
That's the first cousin twice removed of Paul Shanklin doing the vocal portrayal there, the takeoff on where have all the cowboys gone by uh Paula Cole.
Out to the phones, this is Terrence in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hello, sir.
Rush.
I'm depressed.
I have a problem.
Yeah.
I live in Cambridge.
They do not like Christmas.
And I mean I'm surrounded by liberals.
Their depression is really starting to affect my outlook on Christmas.
I don't feel like I can get into it this year.
It's so depressing.
I get happy holidays, if that, wherever I go.
I mean, uh I I don't know how to respond to this.
It gets to the point to I mean, I'm I'm surrounded by liberals, and as we all know, they're not a big thing.
Well, I know, but unless you're unless you're prepared to move, that is uh uh challenge you're going to have living where you live.
I'm not prepared to move.
I'm gonna I'm kinda stuck here, but you need some therapy.
And and uh I'm gonna give you uh one of the best pieces of advice I have ever given in my life.
It's tough to do, but it's fun to try.
All right.
And it is when you succeed, and you won't succeed all the time at it, but when you succeed, you will feel liberated like you can't believe.
And it's very simple.
You are allowing other people, many of whom you don't even know to affect how you feel about yourself.
You are giving so much power to a bunch of people that you have no respect for in the first place.
Right.
Uh you have to learn.
We all have to learn how to make our own selves happy by virtue of our own existence being things that we do, pursuing our passions.
If you w if if you need it to get in the Christmas spirit to see a bunch of outside things like uh uh Christmas trees, or if you have people say, Merry Christmas out there, Terrence, great to see you.
Uh and that's not happening, then you're you're not gonna enjoy it.
If you can get yourself out of the circumstance where you need that kind of Feedback from uh people.
I know community is a big part of Christmas, it really is, but you can make it what you want inside your own home with your family.
Right.
Well, I agree with look at liberals are depressing as as as all get out.
They're never laugh, they they're never happy.
I mean, we when I say even when I say Merry Christmas to someone, it's a startled look they get on their face, and uh it it's almost like an aggressive response.
Like, oh yeah, Merry Christmas.
You know what I mean?
Like they're angry about it.
You have offended them.
You have offended them.
See, they're also granting you way too much power, but what th to to uh affect the way they feel.
The difference between you and them, and I'm dead serious about this.
When you offend them, they will go and do whatever they have to wherever to make sure you don't say whatever you say to shut to to offend them.
They want to shut you up.
When they offend you, you call me.
But you don't go to government.
You're not trying to force your way on them like they are trying to force their way on you.
Right.
The reason you feel depressed is because they have systematically over the years done their best to take Christmas, the spirit, and everything associated with it out of public life.
Uh well, I mean, you know what?
I'm not gonna stop saying Merry Christmas to anyone.
Uh in fact, I'm gonna up the ante and continue to say it even more.
And smile when you do, and be the nicest, sh most cheerful, joyful person in the world you can muster when you say and just if they can't accept good cheer and you being nice, don't make it your problem.
That's right.
Merry Christmas.
Same to you.
They're telling you more about who they are than they are telling you who you are.
All right.
Now, here's here's a great illustration here of Liberals in Christmas.
Nancy Pelosi.
This is how screwed up they are.
She had her press conference yesterday announcing her agenda for the 110th Congress, and she tries to wish everybody a Merry Christmas at the end of her press conference.
I wish you all a very happy holiday, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, whatever it is you're celebrating.
I wish you well with it.
I am celebrating your eventual defeat as speaker in 2008.
Merry Christmas to you, too.
Yes, have yourself a merry little Kwanzaa.
Happy New Year, a happy Hanukkah.
The words of Nancy Pelosi or whatever else you're celebrating, Rush Limbaugh here, open line Friday.
Donald in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hello.
Hello, Rosh.
Hey.
I was uh a quick question for you.
Why do you call your chair the Till of the Hun Chair?
It's at Till of the Hun, uh the at Till of the Hun, just to irritate liberals.
At Till of the Hun was supposed to he you know, i they say that people to the right of Attila the Hun.
Uh and I just do it just to irritate the libs.
All right.
That's it.
It's it's nothing more.
I do a lot of things to irritate the libs, and they work.
Don in Winston, Salem, North Carolina.
Hello.
Rush, I have a Friday type question.
Uh when I listen to the show on the ditto cam, it doesn't sound nearly as good as when I listen over the air, and I was curious if you could tell us what sort of digital processing or what you do to the signal to make it sound so good.
Uh you you're telling me that the streaming audio that you hear on the internet while watching this program of the ditto cam doesn't sound as good as it does as when you listen to AM radio.
That's correct.
Told you, Brian.
We've we've we've had an engineers don't listen to me.
And I've been hearing this complain.
We had when we installed the low-end quark modulator bus here, we had an infestation of sand fleas.
I don't know where they came from.
I think the guy that came in to install this stuff, I'm laughing at me on the other side.
But I think I think what that has led to is that we're not able to compress the signal because it would fry the sand fleas.
When you listen to AM radio, the signal is compressed.
I wish I had a way to demonstrate this because uh it it does make a huge difference.
AM radio, FM is not as compressed.
And when I say compressed, it's even hard to describe.
If how old are you, uh, Don?
I'm fifty-seven.
All right, then you remember back in the sixties, driving around in your car when all there was was AM radio, and you're listening to top 40 music and the Motown stuff and how the bass just thumped at you, and there was a uh uh the songs didn't fade out because the compression kept them kept them as loud as ever, right to the very end, and it sounded like the the music was literally being sucked up uh to to get to the uh loud volume.
Uh that's what compression does.
Uh I only listen to music compressed.
I refuse I I loved it so much.
Uh and you can tell the difference, and the reason AM radio stations did it uh was there were a lot of convertibles back then, and it makes the music louder, and every radio station wanted to be the loudest on the dial as people were punching buttons and turning the dial.
The loudest stations are the ones you tend to stick with.
Uh and uh certain kind of music doesn't lend itself to being compressed because as a purist engineer will tell you it's pure distortion.
But that's rot gut.
Uh I I the music I I went out and bought a compressor like our in-radio stations, and I run it's called uh the the Apex, right?
Apex 2020, and the high setting is called flamethrower.
So I put everything through the flamethrower setting and listen to music that way.
Uh when you go when you buy a C D at a store or download it or whatever, it's just flat.
There's no compression added to it at all.
I wish I could do a side-by-side comparison here and show you.
Anyway, we're probably not compressing it does the same thing to voices, too.
Your voice sounds great on the radio, but very plain over the internet.
Well, now that that's not that bad.
I'm hearing myself, and I one thing I do not sound is plain.
I'm there's nothing about me that is plain.
I can understand how it would sound different.
Yeah, let's just say different.
Yeah, but but it's I'm I'm telling you it's because AM radio compresses their signal.
They still do.
It's it's a it's part and part of amplitude modulation, which is what AM stands for.
FM is frequency modulation.
You compress it in a different way.
At any rate, uh I'm happy for the question.
A great open line Friday question, had nothing to do with anything, but I got to tell people about the sand flea infestation here in the quark modulator bus.
Back after this.
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