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May 10, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 10, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, hang on.
I just got a great email here, and I gotta print this out.
I gotta read it to you.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution, and half my brain tied behind my back still, in order to make it fair.
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Our phone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the email address, rush at EIBNet.com.
Rather than go through the usual corporate channels, I'm going to make this on-air appeal to the management of our Baltimore affiliate, WCBM.
In case you're just joining, as you can see this on the Drudge Report, they have a billboard of me up near I-83 in Baltimore that has been defaced.
Someone under the cover of darkness went over to the billboard and plastered the bottom half of my face with different colors of paint.
And the email, a great email, suggests, don't touch it.
Leave it alone.
Just add one line.
Listen and see what the left doesn't want you to hear.
Leave the billboard defaced.
Leave the paint up there.
And then add a little line.
Keep listening or listen.
See what the left doesn't want you to hear.
And I think that's a great idea.
I don't know.
They said they were going to start fixing and repairing the billboard today, and they may have already started.
I don't know if it's too late.
But if it's not too late, you guys in Baltimore might want to think about that.
It doesn't bother me.
Actually, funny.
Also, Roy Spencer, the climatologist from the University of Alabama at Huntsville, who we have had on this program before, has been trying to call, as many of you are, getting a busy signal.
Unless Snerdley hung up on him.
Snerdley told me the top of the hour today.
It's been really tough out there.
I'm getting a lot of people that had already been listening to program calling in.
There's like a programmed such-and-such out there.
And Snerdley, Roy, I hope it's not you that he's refused.
Well, no, Roy said he hasn't gotten through yet, so you haven't disrespected Roy Spencer.
So he sent us a note.
He says, I'm trying to get through here.
Subtropical storm Andrea Mitchell is the result of unusually cold air.
So the global warming freaks are out there trying to say that this is an example of how global warming is happening and Dr. Spencer.
And I hope he gets through.
Well, wait.
Got his number here.
Come in here, Brian, pick up the we can call him.
We're not used to having guests here, so it takes a while for it to register that we can reach out to people.
We wait for people to reach out to us.
Now, wait a minute, you know not to call the fax number.
I love teasing Brian.
I do.
Missing vulture has been found in the Netherlands.
The great Dutch scavenger hunts over five days after thermals and gusty winds swept Abu, the whiteback vulture, away from the private bird of prey breeding center where he lives.
Police officer found him Wednesday, and falconers coaxed him back into captivity.
Abu is normally kept in an enclosure at the center in the southern Netherlands, but disappeared into the clouds last Friday while being trained for a flying demonstration.
He was discovered 80 miles away.
And the policeman took a photo of him with his mobile phone, sent it to us.
We could see that it was Abu.
Catching him was easy.
They had food.
He saw that and walked straight up to them.
So the whiteback vulture that's been missing has been found.
I want to go back to Mitt Romney and Al Sharpton.
We have audio sound bites, and of course, we've got a new commercial in from the Justice Brothers today that will also play as part of this segment.
But Dan Real has a blog, Real World View, and there's an amazing entry on his blog today.
Obama, Democrats, and the.
Have we bought insurance from the Justice Brothers?
Because I'm going to have to use a word here that could get me in trouble.
I mean, I know they're official sponsors of the program, but I don't know if you know what?
We can comp them a few spots.
We can give them a few commercials.
That would be buying insurance from them because I got to read this.
Democratic Representative John Yarmuth of Kentucky currently has an item on his website which in part praises the performance of Nappy Roots, which is a Kentucky-based rap group that in 2002, Then Kentucky Governor Democrat Paul Patton honored by declaring Nappy Roots Day an official state holiday in Kentucky.
I mean, this is incredible.
Following Lisa Tanner's moving rendition of the Star-Spangled Man, this is from the website, stellar performances by the Louisville Dems and Nappy Roots, the name of a rap group, and inspirational speeches from dozens of local officials, John Yarmuth and Barack Obama took the stage to thunderous applause.
You know, of course, when Imus made his comments, Obama said he didn't just cross the line.
He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America.
And yet Obama was there with John Yarmuth celebrating this rap group called Nappy Roots, and they actually had Nappy Roots Day, an official state holiday in the state of Kentucky.
So when a Democrat honored a group called Nappy Roots with a state holiday, Obama shows up and praises them, which takes us, ladies and gentlemen, we got Roy Spencer.
Okay, let's go grab Roy here.
We'll get to the Sharpton Obama thing and the Mitt Romney thing after the break.
Dr. Spencer, thanks so much for joining us today.
You're welcome, Rush.
All right, now, to refresh people's memories, you called the program once a few weeks ago discussing why you deviate from the established belief man-made global warming.
And your hypothesis basically is that precipitation is one of the primary factors in that computer models do not measure precipitation because we can't figure out.
We don't have the equipment, the sophistication yet to measure total precipitation on the planet on a daily basis, correct?
Well, let's be a little more specific than that.
Basically, precipitation systems act as the atmosphere's air conditioner.
It's kind of like in your house, the air is constantly being recycled, right?
Well, precipitation systems constantly recycle our atmosphere's air.
You know, the air you're breathing was probably in the last several days going through a precipitation system.
Those systems are what cause most of the Earth's greenhouse effect, which is water vapor and clouds.
Precisely.
I remember.
Okay.
And that's when you say most, could you attach a percentage of greenhouse gases to water vapor?
Yeah, over 90%.
Our addition of CO2 has enhanced the greenhouse effect by maybe 1% so far.
Okay.
So that's automobiles, exhalation of human breath, factory smokestacks, all these things that we're being told are really polluting the planet are really such a small percentage of the so-called greenhouse gas.
By the way, is it a bad thing the planet might warm up?
I don't know.
I mean, I think that's a toss-up.
Yeah, but if you go back and look at the, I forget what it was called, but back in the days of the Vikings, they were able to grow crops and so forth in Greenland.
They were able to traverse the North Atlantic and come to North America.
The northern hemisphere was a lot more fertile than it was.
But the idea, my point is the idea that global warming is destructive, calamitous, and deadly is a bit absurd.
Yeah, I think a little bit warmer would actually be better.
And I think the extra CO2 is, you know, they estimate crop productivity has gone up 15% just because of the extra CO2 we've put in the atmosphere.
So it's a good thing in ways.
All right.
Now, I'm titillated here.
Cold air.
Unusually cold air is responsible for the subtropical storm off the coast of Georgia.
Yeah, and the hint there is that it's not a tropical storm.
It's a subtropical storm.
These things don't usually form.
I think it's been a few years when we've had one like this.
But the thing didn't happen because of unusually warm ocean water.
It happened because there was unusually cold air that came unusually far south and there was such a contrast between that cold air mass and the sea surface temperatures, which are running about normal in that area, that then that can lead to a storm.
Remember, most storminess on the earth is related to temperature contrasts.
Right.
Well, the unusually cold air that came unusually far south.
Right.
And if we're going to start blaming that on global warming, then you can explain anything with global warming.
Well, they do.
No, they do.
I mean, you didn't hear it.
I don't think Lori David is blaming the Malibu wildfires on global warming.
I mean, every weather calamity, they do two things.
They portray it as unique.
They try to convince people that we're experiencing severe weather today, unlike we've ever known, the planet has ever known.
And that then is because of man-made global warming.
It's a perfect political agenda the way they've got it set up.
Right, right.
And you just reminded me of a news story that came out yesterday.
You may not have noticed it, but do you remember the name Chris Lancy?
No.
Well, he's one of the Hurricane Setters' lead researchers and forecasters.
And he was one, he had quit the IPCC because he thought it was becoming too political.
The UN buddy.
The UN bunch, right.
Well, anyway, he's now convinced that 2005 wasn't a record year for tropical cyclones.
And it's mainly because we've only had satellites, which can see the central and eastern Atlantic, you know, in the last, you know, since the 1970s.
And I've got a graphic I can email you that maybe you want to put up.
The previous record year was 1933.
I've got a record how, I mean, I've got this graphic that shows how all of those storms were in the western Atlantic.
And then the new supposed record year, 2005, they're everywhere.
In other words, if we had satellites back in 33, you know, there probably would have been five or six more storms that would have been seen.
And 2005 then wouldn't be a record.
Yeah, we've been naming storms since 1951.
Before 1951, they were called wind and rain.
They're called Hurricane X and Y and all of this.
Well, something else about that.
We say that hurricane season starts June 1.
Now, this is a statistical thing, but it's only because of humans' desire and necessity in some places to name things and to create boundaries for things that something that happens like this tropical storm, subtropical storm in April is said to be unusual.
Since we've been paying attention to recording these things, I read it a 17.
This is the 17th named storm, obviously since 1951, in May.
So it's not unusual.
Right.
And even if it were unusual, it's unusual from the standpoint that it was caused by unusually cold air.
Well, I appreciate it.
Not because it's unusually warm out.
Right.
In fact, you know, I was watching this thing on Saturday because I went on an aviation website, and I saw this big low out there, and they had it graphically turning like a cyclone.
And I'm looking on various weather sites, and nobody is saying anything about it or mentioning it.
It looked pretty intimidating to me, even though it was way offshore.
And it wasn't a couple days, three days later, that it happened to be categorized and named.
But what's the difference in a subtropical storm and a tropical storm?
Well, like I said, a subtropical tropical storm forms from a contrast between sea surface temperatures that are just warm enough, but then with a cold air mass.
There's such a big temperature contrast there that it can really feed the convection.
So it starts out as sort of a high-latitude, you know, a regular low-pressure area, and it can sort of transition into a tropical storm.
You might have remembered a few years ago, there was the supposed first-ever hurricane off of Brazil.
Yes.
That was supposedly due to global warming.
That was another one of those things.
It formed in an unusually cold air mass, and the water it was sitting over was not unusually warm.
You know, now that you mentioned this, I remember I played golf on Sunday, and it was unusually humid and sweldery.
It was drink a lot of water on the golf course.
Monday and Tuesday down here in South Florida, we had lows in the low 60s.
It barely got to the 70s.
The humidity was gone, and it was.
There was unusually cold air that made it even this far south, farther south than the storm is.
Now, I've lived here since 1997.
Here we go with the same anecdotal stuff that the global warming people use.
I've lived here since 1997.
I don't remember ever the lows getting inland.
Here they got to the high 50s in the first part of May.
That's unheard of to me since I've been here for 10 years.
And it's been unusually cool here in Alabama.
I've been here 23 years, and a couple of weeks ago, for the first time that I saw in 23 years, we had a late freeze that froze not just the flowers, but half the trees, the new foliage, died.
And a lot of these trees are not going to come back.
I've never seen that happen before.
Some of them are, you know, 100-year-old oak trees.
Well, we'll pray for them.
Gaia has been unkind to some of her subjects.
Dr. Roy Spencer from the University of Alabama at Huntsville.
Thanks for your time.
It's always a pleasure to talk to you and enlightening.
So the subtropical storm up there, Andrea Mitchell, the result of unusually cold air coming unusually far south.
Back after this.
Hi, welcome back.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the October 2005 issue of the nation's most widely read political newsletter.
This is the Limbaugh letter.
And I'm showing it for the people watching on the DittoCam today at rushlimbaugh.com.
What you're looking at there is a map graphically illustrating how many National Guard troops are deployed and available in every state all across the fruited plain, including Alaska and Hawaii.
Now, in this case, back in October 2005, when we went to this, gave the graphic, there were 4,000 National Guard troops in Kansas.
But we did this around a story entitled, Where Was the National Guard?
And I was reminded of this because this, a year and a half ago that we did this, but we had a little bit today, a discussion of Kathleen Sebelius, the governor of Kansas, who came right out and said, we don't have any National Guard here, and it's because we're in Iraq.
And I said, I don't believe she came up with that.
I think that's part of Democrat Party strategy.
I think it's in the handbook.
When there's a disaster, particularly in a state with a Democrat governor, you blame Bush and you blame Iraq.
And you do everything you can to deflect attention away from whatever incompetence on the local level, such as Kathleen Blanco and School Bus Naked in New Orleans and in Kansas now, the mayor of Sebelius.
And we did this in the post-Katrina era because they did it during Katrina.
Well, there's no National Guard in the war.
Bush has sent them over.
They're fighting a war.
We can't win an immoral war.
An unjust war.
Bush lied.
People died.
Now people died in New Orleans.
Bush just not only steered the hurricane in New Orleans, Bush created Katrina, aimed at there because he wanted to kill Democrats.
He made sure there's no National Guard to help.
And that's what they're out there saying.
And that is why, and I will reiterate this, I do not believe that Governor Sebelius came up with this on her own.
I think there were probably either a handbook.
They either discussed this or she got a call from someplace at Democrat headquarters, wherever there's a bunch of different Democrat headquarters.
Here's what you're going to say about this.
And we had a little mock-up here of the Democrats' disaster handbook hurricane response plan, but it also would work in a case of a tornado.
First thing you say is, and this forms all other thinking.
I hate Bush.
Bush sucks.
Bush is Hitler or Bull Conner.
Bush is really dumb.
He knew in advance, but didn't respond.
He sent the National Guard to Iraq when it was needed at home.
It's FEMA's fault.
Bush took money from local reconstruction levies or what have you and used it for the war.
And that's why a whole town got blown away in Greensburg, Kansas.
Bush failed to preserve the wetlands.
Bush has refused to fix global warming.
All these things.
This is, I know this handbook, we make a mockery of it here, but I know it exists.
So Dean is running the website today.
Coco is out.
But it's pages 10 and 11, October 2005, Limbaugh Letter reproduced.
I'll make a PDF out of this and post it at rushlimbaugh.com in support of my instinctive understanding and monologue today on the reaction of the governor of Kansas and my theory that it was a pre-programmed response, perhaps even ordered and dictated to response by higher powers in the Democrat hierarchy.
Brief time out here, folks.
We'll be back and continue with broadcast excellence after this.
What do you mean, are we ready?
We've been ready.
We've been executing and performing here on the EIB network over two and a half hours now.
You know, speaking of this, it reminds me of something.
Speaking of this defaced billboard of me in Baltimore, reminds me when I was in Sacramento at KFBK, and back when the television news operations out there were really solid.
Just as an aside, the station put a series of billboards up on me because back then, believe it or not, I was controversial then too.
And this billboard that I'm going to describe for you won a local ad club award.
And it was two or three of them around town.
And it was a picture of a car radio dial back in the 80s.
Nothing was digital.
It was just something digital was just starting.
You had the AM dial and you had the five or six push buttons under it that you could push to change stations.
And there was a hand with one finger ready to push a button.
And it had our station, KFBK1530, denoted on the radio dial.
And the line was, wouldn't you just love to punch Rush Limbaugh?
And then the next billboard had tomatoes, looked like eggs and stuff thrown at it.
And then the next billboard had even more of that kind of stuff.
So we defaced our own billboards just as a humorous marketing campaign.
So that's why the idea, and I got this from the emailer, hey, leave that billboard alone and just add another line to it.
Listen to see what the left doesn't want you to know is a good idea.
I don't know if it's too late.
And it's their billboard, so they might, it's WCBM's billboard.
They might want to clean it up.
That was a performance art billboard.
It was made to look like it had been defaced.
It wasn't.
It was painted.
The paint and all that, the eggs, the rotten eggs and the tomatoes and stuff were thrown over my name.
Didn't put my picture on the billboard.
The local station didn't want me getting too popular because they'd have to really pay me a lot of money.
So that's just how local radio is.
I was stunned I got the billboards, frankly.
But anyway, say if you haven't done anything down at WCBM, leave it alone.
Just add a line to it.
Listen to see what the left doesn't want you to know.
All right, to the audio soundbites.
This is, we'll start with Mitt Romney.
This is yesterday on the campaign trail responding to Al Sharpton's insensitive remark about Mormons.
His comment was a bigoted comment.
It shows that bigotry still exists in some corners.
And I thought it was a most unfortunate comment to make.
Okay, so last night on Paula's on now, the Reverend Sharpton went to do damage control.
And she said to him, so obviously Mr. Romney thinks you were making negative comments about his religion.
Now, in this case, see, it's like when Jesse Jackson went on the Today Show with Meredith VR, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Reverend.
Please forgive me, Reverend Jackson, but I got to mention you did call New York High Meetown.
You know, beg for forgiveness before reminding the Reverend Jackson of what he'd said.
In this case, there's no assumption of guilt in the case of Sharpton by Paula Zahn because they're on the same side.
They're Democrats.
They're libs.
So the idea here is give Sharpton some wiggle room.
So the question, so obviously Mr. Romney thinks you were making negative comments about his religion.
We all know you weren't, but that's what he thinks.
So were you saying that Mormons aren't real Christians?
No, what I was responding to as interesting, he did not attack Mr. Hitchens who said this.
Mr. Hitchens had said that the Mormons had in fact had in their articles of faith that blacks were not to be part of an inclusiveness of God.
And I said, don't worry about that anyway.
That's the case, that real believers, not atheists, because the argument was over atheists.
The argument was not about Mormons.
Real believers, not atheists, who's going to vote against them anyway, because I don't think Romney will win.
Okay, nice shift of gears.
The Reverend Sharpton then continued.
I think now, Mr. Romney, since I didn't bring this up, Hitchens did, has opened the door for me to say, well, wait a minute.
Is Hitchens right?
Is this the history of the Mormons?
And were you part of that history?
Were you a part of this church before they renounced this?
So you see what the Reverend Sharpton has done here.
He's gone on the offense.
He's turned it around.
You Mormons, Have a part of this history of denying blacks equality in the Mormon religion.
And of course, Paula's on just sitting there like a zombie, with a giant smile on her face.
And she says, so you deny what Hitchens is saying.
Hitchens is not about Hitchens.
Sharpton's already blaming Hitchens for what he said.
You got to marvel at this.
Only in the drive-by media would a perp be allowed to get away with this kind of maneuvering.
So you deny what Hitchens is saying when he thinks that you were making distinctions and somehow suggesting that Mormons weren't real Christians.
I'm telling you what I meant, and I'm telling you what I said.
I'm also telling you what Hitchens said.
Hitchens, according to what you just played, attacked the Mormons.
Hitchens did.
It's strange that Romney didn't attack Hitchens.
Hitchens is not attacking Romney.
I'm the one that belonged to a race that couldn't join the Mormons, and I'm the one that's the bigot.
Now you talking about trying to pass the button.
So after all this, we got an emergency delivery at our business offices today.
It was a new commercial from the Justice Brothers demanding to be running today's schedule.
You know what we have just witnessed here in these soundbites?
We have just witnessed that Al Sharpton can play three-card Monty with his mouth.
That's some of the slickest maneuvering.
I couldn't keep up with it.
First it was Hitchens, and then it was the Mormons denying blacks equality.
And then it was Sharpton wasn't allowed to join to join them.
And it's all Mitt Romney's fault.
And you've got this newsreader.
I see it in the city going, good.
Fort Collins, Colorado, this is Scott.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
You're cracking me up.
Let's see.
What am I going to say?
Rush, it's a pleasure.
I've been with you since the beginning.
Thank you.
A local radio reporter here, Amy Oliver, she had a thing today where Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins, they had this test in one of their math classes from one of their teachers, and the test basically kind of goes that X amount of Democrats minus X amount of liars, all Republicans, equals the answer.
That was actually on the test.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I'm not sure I heard you correctly.
You're talking about a math test.
Yes.
What grade?
It's a high school.
High school.
So high school.
Okay.
So they're talking about people with fourth-grade educations.
And the.
And the test.
The test has a question that says X amount of Democrats minus X amount of liars or Republicans equals the answer?
No, X amount of liars, Republicans.
So, you know, no or, just liars slash Republicans.
Ha ha.
Do they call Republicans liars in the test question?
That's what I'm getting at.
Well, the test question, yes, is X amount of Democrats minus X amount of liars slash Republicans equals the answer.
And there was only one student that was really upset about it and gave her this test.
And so I'm kind of figured you'd have some fun with that.
I would like to see this.
Only one student expressed outrage.
Yeah, absolutely.
And when the station called the high school principal, they sort of like it was just a joke, like it was, oh, it just didn't fun, and everybody knew it was just for fun.
Well, you know, is it possible that there was only one student who expressed outrage because the others couldn't read it?
It's possible.
Or maybe they don't know what Democrats and Republicans are or whatever.
But what the teacher just said this is just, oh, we're just having fun here.
That's correct.
Just a joke.
Just a joke, and evidently everybody there in the classroom.
Everybody knew it was a joke.
And there was only this one question this way.
Or were there other questions on the math test that referred to Republicans as liars or just this one?
Just this one, as far as I know.
For all we know, probably progress, it might have been the case that in tests passed, you know, many questions dealt with Republicans in some derogatory fashion.
But hey, look, that's what's happening in the public education.
It's just a joke.
Joe Biden called Obama clean and our title.
It's just a joke.
Joe Biden's mouth sometimes can't control the lips.
It just happens, you know.
Get over it.
Same thing here.
Anyway, I appreciate the info, Scott.
Thanks much for the phone call.
We'll be right back after this obscene profit timeout.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, rhetoric and resonance and vocal vibrations from a left coast to the right coast here on the EIB network.
Loveland, Colorado, and Angie, thanks for waiting.
Nice to have you on the program.
Doug, I'm sorry.
Oh, I'm looking at the line above it.
Doug, I'm sorry about that.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, this is Doug.
Yeah, I got that.
Gotcha.
Well, I was raised in South Louisiana.
I'm in Loveland now.
And my wife was laughing while reading the paper this morning because of the story about the tropical storm.
Subtropical storm.
Well, that's what got her attention.
And we started talking.
I even called some friends of mine that still live there.
None of us could remember any press coverage about a subtropical storm.
I went online and started doing some research into it here.
And they used to call them Alpha, Beta, Charlie, et cetera, all the way down the list back in the 70s, but they never really reported or talked about them until 2002 when they gave them regular names.
Yeah, tropical storms are usually the first things named, not subtropical storms.
Well, it got my attention because, well, due to you, I went ahead and purchased and read Michael Crichton's State of Fear.
Ah, good book.
Oh, excellent book.
Excellent book.
I plan to make copies of all the graphs in it, et cetera.
And it brought to mind how things are misreported all the time.
And because now we can name subtropical storms, we can have more storms to blame.
I don't know why they didn't name this one Algor.
Well, because these things are destructive.
That's true.
I think we need to start naming thunderstorm systems.
Every low-pressure system that starts in the West and moves east needs a name.
Fronts, anything.
Warm front, cold front should probably be named, and we should be warned about it.
Cold front, yeah, that's we could make a mockery of this.
I'll tell you, you know what's going to happen.
I want to prepare you.
You know, the traditional beginnings of hurricane season, of course, are June 1st.
And this is only because we say so.
God didn't decree it.
Mother Nature didn't decree it.
I mean, now we've got a subtropical storm out there.
Why don't we move the start of hurricane season to May 1st?
Think of what the bureaucrats could do with that.
Think of how they can encroach on our freedom and raise taxes by expanding hurricane season and help the insurance companies charge even more money and go to help the people sell sighting.
Yeah, I got to get that sighting up in the shutters and so forth.
Anyway, I guarantee you, I know this is going to happen on June 1st.
And let me check.
I want to find out here what day of the week June 1st is.
June 1st.
Oh, perfect.
Slow News Day Friday.
June 1st is a frustration.
So here's what's going to happen.
You're going to have network and cable network camera crews out there on the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico scanning the horizon on the 1st of June.
They know there won't be anything out there to see because if there is something they can see, it means the hurricane's at least a week old.
So they're going to go out there on June 1st.
There will not be any hurricane.
They'll scan the horizon.
And in a little box, there will be running B-roll of the destruction from Hurricane Katrina.
And they'll sneak in a couple blips of the destroyed town Greensburg, Kansas, even though that was a tornado.
And they'll have their reporters out there monitoring the circumstances, the situation.
You get all the statistics about how the death and destruction has occurred since 2005, peak hurricane season, which, of course, is BS, peak hurricane year.
And they'll be out there.
And it's all to create a climate of fear, all to create tumult and chaos, and to get everybody all ratcheted up and ready for destruction, death, and disaster.
And it'll go on.
I mean, they'll make a big deal of it on Friday, June 1st, since it is a Friday.
This is Artie in Mexico Beach, Florida.
Artie, I got about a minute here, a minute and a half.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Nice to talk to you, Rush.
Yeah, great to have you with us.
I wish that I had been on before that, Roy Spencer, because he probably could nail the time that this happened.
But I've been here in North Florida for 37 years, and we had a storm in March.
I think it was the middle of March.
And I wish I could remember the year.
I have a feeling it was in the 90s.
Anyway, it was a doozy.
And they did end up calling it the Storm of the Century because it wasn't even forecast as far as I could remember.
But it tore off.
We had built some docks out from our bay.
And of course, it took those all out and knocked them clear down 100 yards or so.
Are you sure this wasn't a tornado?
No.
Oh, no.
It was not.
They did end up with winds of 70 miles an hour, as I recall.
We lived on the bayside at that time down in Cape San Blast, which is North Florida.
If you look at that little squiggle that comes out, that's where we were.
And anyway.
A little squiggle.
Yeah, it's a peninsula that just goes off into the park.
Find out where you are.
Do you know where Panama City is?
Do I know where what is?
Panama City.
Oh, yes.
Okay, so Cape San Blast, if you keep going, following coast, south, and east and get south of Port St. Joe, which is another big town.
Well, I'm going to look this up because I was, I had, you don't remember the year.
We'll try to find it.
But the interesting information to put in a hopper.
We got to run here, Artie, but thanks for the call.
Stay where you are, folks.
Be right back.
Is tomorrow going to be Friday, actually?
Tomorrow is Friday.
My gosh, the week has gone by.
Well, Open Line Friday.
That's always a can of worms.
And well, it is.
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