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April 25, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 25, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers and thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the uh fruited plain, Rush Limbaugh, man, legend, living legend, way of life, and all that, you know, all that.
Uh here on the one and only EIB Network.
We're coming to you today from high atop the EIB building in uh in uh Midtown Manhattan.
Uh looks like you're gonna be here a uh couple of days.
And it's uh already Wednesday, hump day.
Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
For you people that are watching the Ditto Cam today here at Rushlimbaugh.com.
We have been working since my last trip here to the uh studio here.
We have been working diligently to uh to get as as good a quality picture as we can out there.
Worked on it this morning, uh, and and it it looked pretty good to me, and that's all it counts.
Uh, and so I just uh there shouldn't be any complaints.
If there are any complaints, keep them to yourself or complain to your friends, because yeah, it's kind of like a Gonzalez thing.
I'm gonna do it my way, and and I'm not gonna resign if it's not good and uh and all that.
I have to tell you, you know, I had this super secret meeting yesterday about which nothing I can divulge.
But I'll tell you, yesterday, and we all have these, except I haven't had one in a long time.
Generally, as a powerful, influential member of the media, I am immune from these kinds of I had a day yesterday where everything that could go wrong did, other than the super secret meeting.
Uh but I mean I was you have these days where you walk through a door and you miss it by an inch, and you bang your shoulder because you're carrying something.
Uh had my garment bag, uh, and yes, I carry it myself uh many places, but I had house just it's just my clothes and hangers in there.
But but uh one of the hangers came loose.
Uh quite it just caused it it just was it just a disaster in there, and then the briefcase fell apart.
The handle of my briefcase fell apart.
Uh uh uh well, cigars, a whole bunch of stuff's in the briefcase.
Uh briefcase like my purse is uh was just I mean, th uh uh it one of those days that that I was and it started and I became irritable about all kinds of things, everything, of course, except the super secret meeting, about which nothing can I divulge.
Uh and then I uh super secret meeting was in Philadelphia and get time to leave Philadelphia to uh fly up to the got was late uh getting out of there.
So we uh what we got wheels up out of Philadelphia.
What time was it?
About 10 after 7, and five minutes after we get up in the air, pilot comes back and says, guess what?
They just put a 30-minute hold on all landings at Teterborough because some politicians gone in there.
So we started speculating who the hell could this be?
Why would they close an airport because of politicians arriving?
Had to be Hillary, had to be the uh Reverend Dax.
Uh and so we start, you know, this circle holding pattern.
I don't care.
Everything else is going wrong today.
It became a comedy of errors.
Then he five minutes later comes back, they've just closed it for an hour.
And I said, Well, hell with it.
Let's go to Newark.
Now, normally you avoid Newark because it's a lot of traffic out there, and you never know how you're gonna be in a holding pattern and land there.
We got in there in 16 minutes.
Cool.
Get in a car on the way into the city.
I'm told, by the way, the air conditioning at your apartment is not working.
Uh they're working on it.
They expect to have it fixed.
Now you might think, well, it's not that hot outside, but for some reason, without the air conditioning on, it is always hot in the door.
So I'm running around opening windows trying to create drafts uh through the through the place to uh to uh to cool it off and so forth, and and it was just uh what one of one of those days.
And I thought, you know, it better it better get better tomorrow, or I'm gonna drop the F-bomb and not even know it.
You know, just in it in a in a uh peak just a little what was that?
Who said something to me?
Uh oh, it's snurgling.
It's not out of touch.
That's right.
These kind of days happen to me.
And I uh uh look at I'm leaving out a whole bunch of stuff here.
I'm just I'm giving you the highlights.
I mean, everything that could have gone wrong.
Well, not everything, but the vast majority of what could have gone wrong.
That's why I was I was waiting for the Ditto Cam not to work today.
I was waiting for the key to not work to get into the studio.
Here's all kinds, because this it was it was one of those days, and generally they're not contained into uh in just one day.
But everything cool, and We're up and running and uh uh looking forward to the next two days and all the state and city taxes I get to pay as the uh privilege and honor for uh being in New York, uh earning a living, even though I don't live here.
Oh, and then another thing.
This morning I get up, you know, I'm I'm ready to get in here at the usual time to begin show prep, and I get a note from Cookie Hey, they got this is this semi-annual fire drill day at the EIB building.
And I said, for crying out loud, I'm not gonna go in there, and as soon as I get there, have to be rushed out down to the street and a fire drill.
I understand I got to do this, Homeland Security and all it.
So did a lot of work from home this morning, delaying my arrival here, and I got here, and they still hadn't gotten to our floor for the uh fire.
So I hid in the closet when the fire alarm went off.
Good citizen that I am.
Um just I think everything's okay now.
I think everything's cool, and I think it's it's it's gonna be smooth sailing, but I just I just wanted to uh warn you.
I made a prediction on Tuesday.
No, that was yesterday.
Made a prediction on Monday.
You know, we spent a lot of time on Monday with toilet paper demonstrations, one sheet uh and all that, uh, bouncing off uh Cheryl Crow's admonition that we save the planet by using one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit.
And I said this.
This is what I said on Monday on this very program.
Here's the lesson.
She's serious about this.
Now, I fully expect, by the way, by before the end of the day, we were just joking to make a point, is what they'll say.
But they're serious about it.
Well, sure enough, because I know these people, folks.
I know them like every square inch of my glorious and still amazingly shrinking naked body.
Here's Cheryl Crow yesterday on uh good morning America, the uh who?
The correspondent Bianca Golodriga Galadriga, never heard of her, was interviewing Cheryl Crow and uh the uh producer of an inconvenient truth, Lori David, on their global warming tour bus, and they had this exchange about toilet paper.
I wanted to go by and see if I could spare a square in your in your bathroom there.
We've run out of toilet paper.
Um we're just we're just so happy that people are talking about Guillauming today, even if it's brought about by a joke.
Yeah, and they also wrote their piece uh on the Huffing and Puffington Post out there saying that it was all a joke.
But it was not a joke.
These people this this has been on the wacko environmentalist fifth list of fifty things to do to save the planet since the late eighties.
So uh I not a big deal here.
I just wanted to let you know I'm I predicted it.
I know what they're gonna do before they even do it.
By the way, CNN um went to me, America's anchor man and a caller to demonstrate the nation's reaction to the uh requirement of Cheryl Crow, the one square solution for bathroom visits.
This is a montage here of reporter Genie Moss's uh story.
This is a story that kept unrolling and unrolling, a toilet paper tale that stretched round the world from Australia to London.
Rush Limbaugh's listeners rush to experiment.
He rolls up to the size of a penny.
I don't know what the heck you're supposed to do it.
You can't blow your nose, or you can't do anything with it.
This is this is utterly insane.
Well, now wait, did you try the four-ply or using the cheaper two-ply?
They uh did not get to the uh actual demonstration that uh was foisted upon me unwittingly.
Now, do you remember uh back Thursday, April the 19th, we're talking about the uh the massacre at Virginia Tech.
And well, here's what I said.
We'll go back to the audio soundbikes.
We'll just play this because I want to tell you it worked.
The media matters people fell for it, and the drive-by media fell for it, and this is a perfect illustration of what I was talking about on that day, and what this illustration was about.
The critics of this program do not listen to it.
They go to these watchdog websites that are bought and paid for by the Democrat Party in the Clinton machine, in the case of media matters, and uh that's where they get what I said.
And then they take it and they run with it as though some giant controversy has arisen when there is no controversy.
There was no controversy when I said what I said.
Here is the first part of this illustration.
If this Virginia tech shooter had an ideology, what do you think it was?
This guy had to be a liberal.
You start railing against the rich, and all these this guy's a liberal.
He was turned into a liberal somewhere along the line.
So it's a liberal that committed this act.
Now, the drive by's will read on a website that I'm attacking liberalism by comparing this guy to them.
That's exactly what they do every day, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm just pointing out a fact.
I am mating no extrapolation.
I'm just pointing it out.
They try to.
Whenever I can tell you for the history of this program, starting way back in the early 90s, when there was any kind of an incident, crime or what have you that attracted national attention.
In the early days of this program, the drive-by media went out, and they tried to connect the perpetrator to this program.
They did everything they could.
In fact, it went so far as Bill Clinton blaming me for influencing Timothy McVeigh to blow up the bureau building.
These are the people sponsoring lies and distortion for the purposes of dividing this country and creating hatred.
They're just double standards all over the place, folks.
And I'm telling you, I'm fed up with listening to who it is that's supposedly coursing the culture when I watch it on television every day and I read it on obscure websites every day.
These are the people that write books about how to assassinate George W. Bush.
Sure enough.
Sure enough, folks.
The drive-by media, national and local, across the fruited plain, running with the story, limbaugh calls Cho a liberal.
Political pundit Rush Limbaugh is under fire for this remark, claiming Cho's envy of wealthy students means he was a liberal.
Rush Limbaugh, stirring up controversy about the Virginia Tech massacre.
Limbaugh said it had to be a liberal who committed such an act.
Marshall Limbaugh appeared to blame liberals for the shooting, claiming that the assailant just must have been one.
There is controversy this morning over comments talk show host Rush Limbaugh made about the Virginia Tech show.
Oh, there wasn't.
I was pondering what the shooter's ideology must have been, and said that he, quote, had to be a liberal.
After Don Imus, I think what radio commentators will want to do that.
Rush Limbaugh just said that this guy who killed all those kids at Virginia Tech was a liberal.
That's not the greatest thing.
They fell for it.
Hook, line, and sinker.
This illustrates exactly what I was talking about last Thursday, about the way all this stuff happens.
The point is there was no controversy.
There was no controversy on this program.
There was no eruption on this program Thursday or Friday.
Not until yesterday when the drive-bys heard about it three or four days after the fact.
And then they dream that the only controversy is with them because they think I called them out.
I mean, you people at Media Matters, you're going to have to learn not to be baited when I'm baiting you because you end up illustrating and proving exactly what I'm saying.
And by the way, speaking of this, there's one more thing.
Last week, and I did this on purpose.
Last week we hadn't played it in a while.
Last week we played Barack the Magic Negro, Paul Shanklin impersonating Al Sharpton through the bullhorn.
And guess what?
In the past three days, various elements of our PR apparatus have received calls from individuals all over the country, expressing their disappointment and their shock and their outrage that they, in fact, we've been playing this song for a month, maybe longer.
But last week we played it, and of course, these people heard it for the first time.
It's all over YouTube.
It's all over a number of places, and we're getting phone calls from solid citizens who are very concerned that in the post-IMUS era, uh, these kinds of comments are going, and we tell them, you know what?
This is a great example.
You don't listen to Russia's show.
You hear about what happens on Russia's show from a bunch of biased individuals, and then you have this cow and you go bonkers.
And we explained to them, do you understand?
It's right in the lyrics of the song.
The LA Times called him a magic Negro.
It was a black columnist complaining about the fact that Barack had no substance.
Prior to that, Al Sharpton had told the New York Post he's a little jealous that Barack was being called the first clean and articulate black presidential candidate when Sharpton bathes every day.
Joe Biden said this, though he's a little jealous out there.
Uh, and uh there's little contra attempts going on between um uh Sharpton and uh and Obama.
So we put the song together to ill, but if we if you don't listen to this program and you don't understand the context, and if you don't understand that we have railed against this kind of discrimination and so forth, I mean that it's been LA Times at two or three columns already on is Barack Obama black enough.
It's not happening here, it's happening out there.
We simply chronicle it, laugh at it, make fun of it, and then people hear it out of context and they go bonkers, and we send them the LA Times piece and so forth.
Well, what it all means, folks, is that there are these little nerdlings out there that are monitoring their radios in the post-IMUS era, and they're looking for any, any shred of evidence that could make me the next to get his butt kicked off of major American airwaves, but it isn't going to happen.
Because everything here has a political point, uh, is bounces off something somebody else, especially our parodies, and so forth.
But it's uh it it's illustrative of what I mentioned to you when we first started talking about this, and that is that the people that are raising all this hell don't listen.
They get it second and third hand out of context, and they're out there as an army trying to create this stink.
Uh but it it won't work.
Uh it's just funny to chronicle it all, particularly this supposed controversy over my calling the guy at Virginia Tech a liberal.
What controversy?
Everybody that listens to this show agrees with me, so how can you possibly have controversy there?
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB number just laughing because I'm scanning the early calls.
I'm setting a bad example by hiding in the closet during the fire drill.
Was Rosie fired?
Or was it the contract?
We'll get to Rosie in just a second, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh well, let me just say the real reason that that Rosie O'Donnell is leaving the view is that she did not like the flavor of the dog biscuits they put on the floor in her dressing room.
Uh and so she they couldn't come to an agreement uh on that.
So she's she's uh she's out of the see this headline strong corporate profits boost Dow Jones industrials over 13,000 for the first time.
Do you see that?
Not for long, folks.
The Democrats plan to change that.
They're going to raise taxes, they're going to impose all these nutty environmental wacko rules, they're going to investigate the companies making these profits and uh drive down the economy.
And they'll say it's all Bush's fault anyway.
Out there and they'll say that the the uh, well, it may be rosy out there on Wall Street, but it's not good on Main Street.
In fact, it's what they're saying in the New York Times today.
What's really squeezing the middle class?
They ask.
What's squeezing them?
My answer, nothing.
There is nothing squeezing the middle class.
Um the story about inequality is indisputably true, but we're starting to learn that the second story, the one about instability, is more complicated.
It may even end up being wrong.
It is wrong.
There's no maybe wrong about it.
The instability of the classes and the differences, layoffs seem to happen more frequently than they once did, and these job losses have caused workers' incomes to bounce around a lot more in the past.
So uh not only have middle class families been getting meager raises, their finances have also become more volatile.
Uh this is the same thing.
They write that every time you got a Republican in a White House and the economy's going through the roof, there's got to be a disaster somewhere, and it's always the middle class.
This is simple, it's just a rehash of the way they dealt with the Reagan economy back in the um in the 1980s.
A couple quick hits on some global warming stories.
This is this is incredible.
The story is uh this is Reuters, it's from coal mine seven from Svalbard, Norway.
Coal mine seven, Svalbard Norway, fossils of a hippopotamus-like creature on an Arctic island show the climate was once like that of Florida up at the North Pole, giving clues to risks from modern global warming.
How in the world do you get there?
We're talking something 55 million years ago.
Fossil footprints of a pantodont, a plant-eating creature weighing about 400 uh actually 880 pounds.
Uh these footprints add to evidence of a sequoia-type tree and crocodile-like beasts in the Arctic millions of years ago when greenhouse gas concentrations in the air were high.
Well, fine, and there might have been greenhouse gas concentrations, but out there weren't any masses amounts of humanity producing them.
All this does is illustrate, if it's true, that the Earth's climate is this massively complex, constantly changing, never static element, and that there's nothing we can do about it.
In fact, you know, it it's entirely possible.
Let me just throw this out there.
Antarctica could be, or Arctic, the Arctic Circle.
What could be up there now could have been Atlantis, the lost continent of Atlantis.
What could end it up up there, you never know.
All these all these shifts.
It may it may have always been called to the North Pole.
It's just that what now is the North Pole used to be somewhere in the tropics and moved up there.
We're talking 55 million years.
The idea that this somehow gives an indication of the threat that we face that we are causing and provides clues to modern day global warming is just it's irresponsible.
And there's no oh, and by the way, they're going gaga over this new planet out there, because we're destroying ours, you know.
Again, this new planet.
Oh, yes.
Hi, gosh, folks, I don't know how I missed this.
There's breaking news going on right before my eyes, and I missed it.
John McCain has announced for the presidency.
He's up in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
And he's a n.
I'm sorry to not be the first to tell you this.
Everybody's caught by surprise with this announcement.
Uh but McCain is gonna run for the uh for the presidency.
Who would have thought this?
Uh uh he thought that part of his uh remarks uh were that American people are tired of insults in politics and ideas not being uh part of politics.
At any rate, uh Senator McCain, as you know, laughed and joked the other day in South Carolina somewhere about bombing Iran, and uh uh he said, Come on, lighten up.
Just you you gotta you gotta take a joke.
And we have the song.
We've only played it once, but our microphones and cameras are everywhere.
Here is McCain singing me a song.
It's very appropriate here to honor his presidential.
I'm still stunned.
I had no clue he would run for president.
And we are back.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the uh program today, email address rush at eIBNet.com.
People have been patiently waiting.
Let's go to Terry in Albany, Georgia to start the phone uh rotation today.
Hi, Terry, great to have you with us.
Yes.
Yes.
Hello.
Hello.
She can't hear me.
Terry, are you there?
Yes, sir.
Limbaugh, good morning.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Do you hear me?
Yes, sir.
I'm not sure.
It only took four times.
It reminds me when I was married.
Um please.
Well, what I wanted to ask you today, did you really think that Rosie is leaving the view because of a contract dispute?
Or the network and the IMUS movement have had something to do about it.
I don't think the IMUS movement has to do with it.
You know, you you I told you back when that happened, it's not, it was never about Imus.
It's if it's about much more than that.
Uh and but Rosie would not be victimized by the so-called IMAS WHIS.
She's a lib.
How do you think she survived this long?
What happened was last week, or maybe it was yesterday.
I've you know that when you when you miss a day, uh the days run together, but some some uh wards uh down there at the Waldorfist area that Rosie M. C. The Matrix Award, and it's an award presentation for young girls.
And she's up there muttering some shouting obscenities left and right, insulting people, and Barbara Walt, is she dropping the F bomb and Barbara Walters on a dais, and she's covering her eyes and bowing her head.
I I think it just got to be uh it got to be too much uh to try to prop up and and uh and support.
You know, the the the problem for for uh ABC was that the the ratings on that program had improved.
And so that that became the question.
That that became their dilemma.
But no, this the the the contract issue is uh, and you'll be hearing that that Rosie, we couldn't come to a deal.
I'm telling you the deal was about the dog biscuits that they gave her on the floor in the dressing room, it's just the wrong flavor.
They couldn't come to agreement on the flavor of kennel ration that she eats.
So um Rush, you're just tempting them, aren't you?
You're just Rush Limbaugh inspired controversy by referring to Rosie O'Donnell as a woman who eats dog food.
Why would that be?
Um folks, just a human being.
I'm gonna tell you, I am worried about Rosie O'Donnell.
She is there's something in her life, or many things perhaps that are making her miserable.
She happy people do not behave this way.
Uh people that are content and happy do not need to draw attention to themselves in such uh profane and uh vulgar uh ways, which she you remember when Rosie first appeared in the public scene, she was out there this very popular, overweight, middle class from a Long Island babe who used to go to Radio City, and then she ends up on the stage at Radio City, and she stars in a couple movies with Madonna, and uh she's the girl next door.
And something's happened, and she has she's she's just become a toilet.
Sorry, I'm not trying to go back to Cheryl Crow days, but uh she should her act is in the toilet or whatever.
It just I think it's just m too much uh for them to have to be able to support.
Uh given all of the uh if you want to call it the imus movement, but given all the scrutiny, but I don't think there's that much scrutiny aimed at her from the people that would say aim it at me uh or other conservatives.
Um they've they've propped her up for the longest time, as has Barbara Walters.
Uh I think it's just gotten to be too much to bear.
I mean, it's you know, you talk about going on the air every day and rolling the dice.
That's what they have to be doing with uh with that show.
This is Mary in Staten Island.
Mary, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
This is uh Mary from St. Allen.
Uh you made a comment about you hid in the closet during a fly drill.
I think that if you're on the EA should be a little bit more responsible.
I understand that you get uh want to go participate in the fly drill.
All right, but I'm listening.
Ho, ho, ho.
Slow down.
No, I didn't.
I said hold.
I said hold on.
I was I said Rush Limbaugh calls caller ho, ho, ho.
No, I was saying ho.
Okay, yeah.
What's the you're you're talking too fast, and the computer that tells me what you're saying, the the uh transcriber, um, I'm not getting what you're saying, so I'm it's uh I I get I'm getting about 70 percent of it, and I'm gonna have to read the rest, and I'm not getting what you're saying.
Okay, they're gonna be able to do that.
So start start it start it.
Start again.
Start again.
A little slower.
You said that you hid in the closet during the fire drill.
Yes.
Although you know that they're important and they're necessary because of the the way the world is today.
If you're on the air, you shouldn't announce that you did something like that because you're kind of setting a bad example for people.
People that listen to you and obviously respect what you have to say, or they wouldn't be, you know, listening to you.
You think you agree with me or not?
You think people are now going to hide in closets during their fire drills.
Well, you just make it more like it's not important.
There is an importance to it.
You say you think it's important, but yet you behave that way.
Well, you know, you may have a you you you may have a point, but I have a pattern of this kind of behavior.
Have you ever been on a cruise?
Uh yes, I go on cruises all the time.
All right, well, you know, before you before right after you leave, they've they do the fire drill where everybody runs to the nearest station with a lifeboat station.
I hide.
I've always hid the closet during those things too.
I'm not gonna go for the mess around with this stuff.
Um I'll have to take this under consideration and under advisory.
Because you may have a point.
I may be setting a bad example, particularly for the youth of America, because essentially what I'm saying out there is I'm better than this.
I don't know.
But that's exactly what my point is.
That's right.
I don't have to do what the common people do or what the plebs do.
I, because of a being a powerful influential member of the media can hide in the closet.
Uh and of course, now this leads to an interesting thing.
You're I was still taking a risk, not only by doing this, but by admitting it.
Because I have also admitted uh in in a certain way of looking at it that I came out of the closet this morning.
Now wait till the media matters gr crowd gets hold of that.
So I could be facing double jeopardy.
Oh boy.
All right, Mary, uh, thank you.
Now, has this has this caused you problems uh respecting me?
You're not gonna listen anymore.
Actually, my dad's a big fan, and uh he's he drove me to the city today, so I was kind of forced to listen to you.
But um I do listen on occasion.
What do you forced forced to Well, have you enjoyed this phone call?
Has it been a pleasant experience for you.
Yes, I have.
All right.
Well, if you call again, it'll be that way again.
And as you listen, it will become even more and more pleasant.
Pretty soon you're going to become addicted and you won't be able to do anything about it anyway.
That's what my father says.
That's well, he is exactly right.
Mary, thanks for the call.
Have a good day.
I appreciate you do the same.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and continue here on the EIB network after this.
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L. Rushball, America's real anchor man, doctor of democracy, truth detector, all come.
Look at this, CNN.
Just in McCain announced it from.
I think Letterman feels today.
Ladies and gentlemen, I've a brief departure.
I want to try to have some more fun here with the uh the uh who have they the uh the speech police that are out there monitoring this program, waiting for the one slip of the tongue that would send me off to the dust bin of broadcast history.
Uh you may have missed a number of things that have been going on on this program in the last two weeks and want to get you up to speed.
Uh as you know, the uh the Reverend Sharpton and Jackson now run CBS and NBC, make corporate decisions there.
Uh they're they're the speech police uh when it comes to race, and so we here at the EIB network created uh a parody series based on this new arrangement uh and and uh joint venture they have, and we call it the Justice Brothers.
This, folks, is fun, because the speech police are out there taking notes, and they're and they're gonna report and they're HR, you're gonna have to get ready for the phone calls from irritated citizens, shocked, concerned citizens over what's happening on the this program.
Anyway, uh they do.
They they what what they leave their phone numbers for you to call back.
Uh oh, is that right?
Oh, is that right?
All these people calling.
Really?
So we're getting all these complaint calls from citizens and they leave us phone numbers to call them back to discuss this.
Or else they will go to the media, they promise.
And we'll be calling back their cell phone numbers for little old ladies.
They have no idea why we're calling.
They don't give us their real number.
Here is Justice Brothers number three.
Well, there you have it.
So let's see what kind of waves ripple out now from the little pebble we dropped in the ocean there among people who are doing the the spying on this program.
I think this is so much fun.
Garfield, New Jersey.
This is uh Joseph.
Joseph, great to have you with us.
Hi, Ross.
How are you doing today?
Excellent.
I'm a first-time caller, long time listener.
Well, it's great to hear from you for once.
Oh, well, thank you.
I want to talk about uh what I saw on the news today about as far as them finding a planet out there that they say may contain life on it.
Yeah, I have that uh have that story right here.
I wouldn't get too excited about this.
Oh, no, I wouldn't either.
From what I understand, they have it based solely on temperature, and they have it based on the fact that it may be able to support water there.
Liquid water, yes, liquid water.
Yes, well, I would like to know is at what axis is that planet spinning.
What is the speed of the rotation of that planet?
How far away is it from the nearest moon, and what is the size of that moon?
Because that will affect the gravity on the planet.
Well, I told you not to get too too excited about this.
You're asking all the wrong questions.
The the the the real question, the real question that the environmental wackles want to know about because they're excited.
You have to understand the context of this story.
We are destroying our planet.
You've got Stephen Hawking and others saying if we are to survive.
I mean, it could be doomsday for us.
If we don't find another planet to colonize and fast, is we're destroying ours.
We got nuclear arsenals waiting out there to be ticked off.
We've got global warming.
We got polar bears dying stranded on ice floors.
We got all these horrible things happening out there.
Uh, and all of a sudden, here comes this new discovery.
This planet, it is, as they say in the story here, in galactic terms, it's relatively nearby, 120 trillion miles away.
But uh the star that it closely orbits is known as a red dwarf.
It's much smaller and dimmer and cooler than our sun.
Very good.
Very good.
But here's see the real question until they learn whether or not there's oil on that planet.
Yeah, it's a meaningless discovery.
Because if we discover oil, it means we will destroy that planet when we get there too, because you know how big oil big oil will be the first people there.
In fact, the the first of the first colonizers arrive thinking, oh wow, we've just saved ourselves and we've saved our civilization and we've saved the human race.
They're gonna get there and they're gonna see oil derricks all over the new planet.
And they'll be depressed.
There might be mass suicides, particularly if they start giving out uh antidepressant drugs.
So it's uh it's it's just it's laughable.
I read this story, I looked at it, and I just started chuckling because I know the mindset behind this story.
There's hope for civilization, there's hope for humanity.
We have destroyed Earth, but we may have a new utopia that we can go to and not make the same mistake, Smith or Limbaugh, and then we can all live in peace and harmony.
There would be no war, we could start over.
But there's all these, this, this always a bugaboo in these things.
I'm telling you, if they if they discover oil, in fact, I I fully expect uh people to suppress that discovery.
If they discover that it could be if it's water, it could be oil.
Um, that is blow it sky high.
Nobody's gonna want to go to another planet where there's oil.
We'll be back.
You've all seen the bogus picture of the two polar bears stranded on what is uh falsely claimed to be this melting glacier, and they're about to die, right?
Uh the truth is that uh uh there are a bunch of seal hunters up there, the North Pole, and they're stranded.
The ice is so thick it isn't melting.
They're in a boat.
They are stuck.
Rescuers are on the way.
An estimated 60,000 baby seals will not die because the seal hunters are stuck in ice thicker than anybody knew and can't get to them to club them to death.
We'll be back.
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