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July 9, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 9, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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All right.
I know you've all been waiting for this.
It's time for our Live Earth segment here.
Oh, my friends.
Some of the comments by some of these idiots that were on stage is too much.
Great to have you back.
Great to be back with you here, Rush Limbaugh, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And we got an hour of our busy broadcast remaining to go here.
The phone number, if you want to participate, 800 282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
And there is a hilarious story from yesterday in the San Francisco Chronicle about the new federal building that's being dedicated today, and what it's just too much.
I can't I can't wait to share with you details of this story.
But first off, today's iPhone winner.
As you know, we're giving away 10 iPhones and uh a check of roughly $1,500 to every uh iPhone winner.
Ten winners in all.
Today is number four.
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He's a staff sergeant.
It's interesting that Holliman Air Force Base is there in Alamogordo.
That's the home of the F-11A stealth attack aircraft fleet.
Uh or winner, maybe uh maybe part of that unit.
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Well, I have to disagree.
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And the ring is loud too.
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It's perfect for my needs, uh even though I've only given my number to two people.
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All right.
Scott Rasmussen, Rasmussen reports.
The Live Earth concert, promoted by former Vice President Al Gore, received lots of media coverage and hype.
But most Americans tuned out.
Just 22% said that they followed news stories about the concerts somewhat or very closely.
75% didn't follow coverage of the event.
75% folks, you this is this is this is bigger than you know.
Worldwide rock concerts, you were at rock concerts in troubling political times, are magnets for every anti-establishment cause that the kooks that believe in these things hold, and they didn't try to take over making an anti-war message, and it just and it fizzled.
It bombed.
NBC had barely 2.7 million viewers on Saturday night.
That's that's the neighborhood of Fox News on cable.
I mean, it was a it was a total stiff.
Uh by way of comparison, eighty percent, eight in ten voters routinely said that they were following news coverage of the Senate debate over immigration.
Fifty-four percent said they followed news coverage of the president's decision to commute scooter libby's sentence.
75% did not follow coverage of live Earth.
And I'm not surprised because we didn't spend much time on it here.
Uh and some of the morning shows, Good Morning America Today Show did the obligatory stuff with Gore on.
But it just didn't captivate people.
Um as I mentioned earlier, the lowest attendance, I think was in uh Johannesburg, South Africa.
And the low attendance there was blamed.
The concert organizer said extremely cold weather kept people away from the concert.
Extremely cold weather keeping people away from a global warming concert.
Now, the global warming people, they're gonna be changing this, by the way.
They're gonna get rid of global warming if they can are going to make it climate change because they say climate change.
Then they'll be able to say that any, which they already do, any extreme weather, hot, cold, dry, whatever it is, is because of climate change.
Global warming.
Uh and then there's great quote from Georgie Simpson from Ipswich in Eastern England, who was at the Wembley Stadium live Earth.
I'm not even sure who Gore is, said Georgie Simpson, 35.
I saw Gore on TV, said Sue Bernard, 38, a health service manager from Hampshire.
But frankly, I think it's pretty cheeky of Americans to come over here to Britain and lecture us.
They are the worst polluters.
So the people going to women get mad at Gore for coming over and preaching to the Brits about global warming.
Here's Gore introducing uh the concert's kickoff in Sydney, Australia.
Hello, Sydney.
I'm excited to join you live to kick off Live Earth.
You are the very first of two billion people who are coming together today on all seven continents to help solve the climate crisis.
And of course, we're all here to launch a multi-year campaign of action.
I hope you will take the first step by signing Live Earth's seven-point pledge.
Whoa, the Live Earth seven-point pledge.
I wonder what is that?
I pledge to demand that my country join an international treaty within the next two years that cuts global warming pollution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth.
I pledge to take personal action to help solve the climate crisis by reducing my own CO2 pollution and offsetting the rest to become carbon neutral.
I pledge to fight for a moratorium on the construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without safely trapping and storing the CO2.
I pledge to work for a dramatic increase in the energy of.
Remember now, you got to remember who the audience is.
Gore's out there on stage.
You got a bunch of long-haired maggot-infested dope-smoking FM types out there just wanting to rock on.
And here's this dull, dry, old guy trying to look young in a, what was it, a black t-shirt and blue jeans, going through this seven-point pledge.
...efficiency of my home, workplace, school, place of worship, and means of transportation.
I pledge to fight for laws and policies that expand the use of renewable energy sources and reduce dependence on oil and coal.
I pledge to plant new trees and to join with others in preserving and protecting forests.
And I pledge to buy from businesses and support leaders who share my commitment to solving the climate crisis and building a sustainable, just, and prosperous world for the 21st century.
This is just it's hilarious.
By the way, uh little weather update here from Jakarta, Indonesia.
Poisonous fumes from an Indonesian volcano killed six school children who were camping on the mountain and sickened several others.
A doctor said yesterday the incident happened Saturday, close to one of the two craters in the Salak volcano, which lies just south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, said families of the victims had refused permission to perform autopsy.
Well, we we we need ban this.
Volcanic fumes kills six children in Indonesia.
We need now that's immediate death.
That is immediate We need to ban this.
Volcanic fumes.
They kill.
And then you just heard Gore say that uh need to sign this treaty that cuts global warming pollution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth.
I have a column here.
And it's an opinion from Kampala in Africa.
The website is all Africa.com.
And this is an editorial piece by Kofi Benteel.
And it's it's in the newspaper called The Monitor.
Live Earth versus Africa.
I'm not going to read the whole thing, but some of this is classic.
Few people in Africa will get to see Al Gore and his troop of rock star ecologists strutting their stuff during the series of Live Earth concerts this weekend, because most in Africa have neither television nor electricity.
That's just as well because they'd be aghast at Live Earth's bizarre message in Africa.
We have much more serious things to worry about than climate change.
Indeed.
If they achieve their objective, the cons the concerts will have done harm to the people of Africa.
Britain's former Secretary of State for the Environment recently said that the rest of the world cannot aspire to the UK's standard of living because, quote, if the world were to have the same living standards as we have in the UK, then we'd need three planets to support us.
Presumably Mr. Miliban would disagree with Indira Gandhi, who famously said poverty is the greatest polluter.
Miliband was replaced by Hillary Benn, who, as Minister for International Development, ran the Department for International Development.
One might have thought that that department would have supported economic and development as a means of escaping poverty and pollution.
But in its rough guide to better world, it advocates development by dung and claims that as poor countries develop, it's essential they do not follow the same failed patterns of energy use.
So it's dung, not diesel for Africa.
While India and China soar ahead because they're too big and nuclear armed to stop.
Even if we accept that global warming may have a significant effect on our climate, limiting the use of fossil fuels in Africa would be counterproductive.
Respiratory infections are leading the cause of childhood deaths on my continent, mainly from inhaling the smoke produced by burning wood and burning dung in our quaint mud huts.
Why do we burn these renewable but very dirty fuels?
Not because we have some desire to save the earth.
No, sir, it's because we don't have access to natural gas or electricity.
The second leading cause of childhood death in Africa is not malaria or AIDS, it's diarrhea.
And it's caused by drinking dirty water.
Why is our water dirty?
Mainly because we lack cheap, efficient means of pumping and cleaning it.
That requires fossil fuels, either directly or to produce electricity.
And the world doesn't want Africa to have any of that.
An underlying cause of many health problems in Africa is malnutrition.
This is a consequence both of inefficient farming and poor food distribution.
To rectify this will mean using cheap and relatively clean fuels like gasoline and diesel.
But if live earth were ever to succeed, we would never be able to do that.
We would have to continue burning dung.
And wood.
It's a great peace.
We will link to it at Rush Lindboard.com brief timeout back after this.
Hi, welcome back.
I don't know if you if you people are following this, if you've seen this, but New York magazine has a story on the current issue that just destroys Katie Courick.
It just it just destroys her.
And the the some of the highlights of this are that had she known that she was going to be doing a traditional newscast, not rather than the new innovation she tried, she would have thought twice about taking it.
And she's not excited today today as she wonders whether she did the right thing or not.
She went over there and she found the lady's bathroom such a disgrace she demanded it be renovated.
And there was a an incident with a producer, a Cipriano guy, Jeffrey Jimmy, whatever Cipriano.
She ended up slapping this guy around because he put a word in the script that she didn't like.
Don't know if uh she slapped him around before or after the newscast, but the uh it was regarded as playfully slapping him around, but on the arm, slapping him around.
Now, I'll tell you, if if a male anchor had started slapping around a female producer, there wouldn't have been any uh speculation as to whether or not it was playful.
But the the interesting thing to me is this.
Why are the drive by's trying to take her down?
I mean, it's it's it's New York magazine's New York magazine, and the associated press is uh has piled on here too.
Now I know that there's a characteristic in the drive-by media, they love to build people up just to tear them down.
That's part of journalism's existing current formula.
Uh, and destroying the powerful is uh is all part of that too.
But they're not they're not trying to take down Brian Williams and not trying to take down Charlie Gibson, and they both do the same thing.
They read a teleprompter for 20 minutes, play preparation age commercials for the other ten.
That's who's watching the lately news.
These are a lot of them, but there's there's that's their that's their demographic.
So it's uh it's interesting.
I I I think some of it has to do with uh with money.
I think you've got a lot of people inside CBS.
They've been some budget cuts over there.
Uh to pay Katie her her big time bucks.
And you've got you've got some of these, you've still got some of the so-called Tiffany Network old guard, these dinosaurs walking around out there.
Uh Leslie Stahl, Bob Schaeffer, uh, and you know, who knows what kind of arrows are being slung at Katie from inside the building.
But still, even though they're being slung, other drive-by outlets are taking them and writing stories.
And this one, I don't know that it was intentionally devastating, it just couldn't avoid being when you uh when you read it.
And it's uh how many, how many what?
Well, later on it well, yeah, some of the same stuff was happening on the Today Show.
She's uh maybe she's just not a nice person.
I might know a little about that, but I'm gonna say.
Uh but it's this, it's it's the drive-by's generally don't take themselves out.
They circle the wagons and defending like a defended rather.
You know, after the fake uh National Guard story, the fake documents.
But uh, I mean, they clearly got Katie in the crosshairs here.
And they they're they're trying to wipe her out.
All right, uh San Francisco Chronicle The View from Inside.
Futuristic federal building wins fans and foes among workers with its innovative features.
Um Nancy Pelosi and other dignitaries gather today to dedicate the new San Francisco Federal building.
The grand opening will be old news to people, like Janice Alvarado and Anita Young.
They've been working in this futuristic tower with its steel mesh sheath since March.
They've dealt with eccentric temperature swings, unexpected sunlight glare.
They become acquainted with a neighborhood where there are more shopping carts than shops, meaning the homeless live across the street.
By now it's starting to feel like home, a home where every resident seems to have a different opinion about the provocative design and its environmental innovations.
It's so futuristic, it's so politically correct, it's so green, I adore it.
It makes me want to come to work, says Alvarado.
Everything is so gray, I don't find it appealing at all.
Countered Young, who works at the same agency.
She has an umbrella propped above her computer to reduce the glare from the 13-foot-tall window next to her cubicle.
Get this.
The ceremony will stress the architectural emphasis on employee health and green design, such as natural ventilation that replaces air conditioning.
There's no AC in most of this building.
The tower elevators stop only on every third floor, making employees have to use the steps for exercise and good, and to reduce some of the power and so forth.
Now there is a small little cab elevator for the disabled, and everybody's trying to sneak into it.
Even the elevator, it's 13 stories and it only goes to every third floor.
Elevators stalled, temperatures veered from one extreme to the other depending on the time of day.
Another complaint, the floor-to-ceiling windows overloaded cubicles with sunlight.
There are also some changes along the plaza where the mesh panels stop above a grass berm.
Derelicts have scaled the berm at night, slid under the panels and dropped down into an area that'll serve and about to open daycare centers.
So the homeless have found a way to sneak into this place as future home uh uh daycare center and spend the night.
And it's in a really rotten neighborhood.
Sixth Street and United Nations Plaza, two of the dice locations in central San Francisco, all for the green aspects.
Gladly, my friends, making the complex understandable.
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Terra Holt, Indiana, this is Rich.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next.
Hey, Rush, Megadiddos from Terra Hose.
Thank you.
Hey, you are always right.
Well, yes.
You've been saying for months about all the politicians that have been going on the interviews saying things about how what a mistake it was to go to Iraq and what a uh bumbler George Bush was.
I've been punching up the new Iranian uh television station, Press TV out of Tehran.
You have been watching the new Iranian news.
You know, that is the Iranian government set up a new worldwide news network like CNN counter the inaccuracies of the American drive-by media.
That's a stupid thing because the drive-by media here is one of the Iranians' most important allies.
Right.
It looks like CNN Turan uh studio.
And of course, they've they've they have uh, you know, the last couple weeks they've had Reed, Pelosi, Murpha, Clinton, Obama, all of them.
But this last week, they've had Hegel, McCain, Domenici.
Wait, now wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You don't mean that they appeared as guests.
You're talking they did news stories with these guys ripping American policy in Iraq and Iran, right?
Right.
Yeah.
And and taken taken directly from American footage.
Yes.
And last night, I hadn't seen this on the drive-by media, but I saw my senator, Richard Luger on Press TV, CNN Turan, uh ripping George Bush and saying we got to get the troops out.
I'm I'm outraged.
Wait a minute.
You didn't know that Luger uh bailed out on this?
Luger was that's what a week ago or so.
I know, but I mean I don't watch the drive-by media anymore.
Oh, so you didn't see CNN make the big deal about it.
No.
You knew that he had he had he had fled the coupe on on Iraq, but you just didn't see any news coverage of it, right?
No, I knew it, but I didn't see any news coverage.
But you saw it on Iranian news TV.
I saw it on Iranian news TV.
You know, well, yeah, I haven't seen it.
I don't I don't think direct TV yet is uh is feeding that into into our how you Oh, I'm I'm I'm pulling it off the internet.
Oh, you're watching off the internet.
Oh, same way same way I get you because I don't get local radio, so I have to pull you off the internet.
You know, I everybody's talking about video on the internet and so forth, and I know it's getting big, but it just doesn't do it for me yet.
Well, the thing it just doesn't do it.
Part of it is hearing.
I need it close captioned and and computer speech.
I don't I don't have my computer, you know, fed into a giant sound system because it doesn't help.
Well, the thing is that you know, there's the there's the drive-by media, there's the talk radio media, and now there's the internet media.
Not only is there Tehran, there is Russia today.
Oh, I know, it's all over the place.
That's it's I'm not denying it.
I I know it's I know it's out there.
I just I'm uh I hadn't taken the time to even find the Iranian news network's website.
Uh but the only question I have is why go to the expense of setting up your own news network, why not just import CNN and make it available in every home in Tehran or throughout the country?
Why why I mean you wouldn't have to do any editing?
I appreciate the uh report, the on-site report out there, Rich.
Uh Debbie in Riverside, Alabama, glad you waited.
You're up next to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush, to the man that runs the country.
I am so happy to be speaking with you today.
Thank you.
It's great to have you here.
Thank you very much.
I told your screener, I am so sick of listening to so-called Democrats lying to the American people every day, Rush.
And I believe it's time it's just time for everyone to demand that these people explain to the American people why they are socialists, why they are against freedom, democracy, and capitalism.
Well, yeah, uh, except they won't do it.
That's why I do it for you.
You do, Rush, and I'm happy that you do.
Why is it that we cannot get this on um any other airwaves or TV or why you uh you don't expect the media to ask these guys questions like this, do you?
You know, I'm expecting more from Fox and I'm not getting it.
I'm very disappointed that they are not doing it, they're not pushing it.
I don't understand why they're Well, because it's not you know what you you you've just described uh an attitudinal existence, and there's no news network that would consider it news that Democrats are socialists.
Um they're not it look it, you there's some you gotta have realistic expectations out here, um Debbie, and it isn't gonna you're you're not you're not gonna find any news, quote unquote network, asking Democrats, why are you opposed to freedom?
Why are you socialist?
Why are you won't even hell, forget that?
The Republicans won't even ask them.
Republicans won't Harry Reid proclaims defeat in Iraq and the world.
Where's the RNC?
What where were the presidential candidates?
What are they sitting around doing?
The Republicans in the Senate.
Where's where is anybody going to other Democrats in the Senate?
You agree with Harry Reid just said that we've already lost that the troops can't do it, that the generals are incompetent.
Nobody put them on the spot.
No, the Republicans you're looking at the wrong people to do this.
Republicans need to be challenging these people on their ideology and on their objectives and on their plans and on their methods of accomplishing it.
And then that makes news.
And then you'd have somebody drive by elsewhere then say, What do you think about the church here?
Republican Senator such and such says that you're opposed to freedom and that you're a socialist.
Now they're not going to ever call them socialists, by the way.
The Republicans are not gonna do that.
I mean, you might find, you know, a few obscure House Republicans that might say it, but they're not gonna get they're not gonna get covered.
But uh well, uh are who called them Stalinists?
No, no, no, nobody will call them Stalinists.
I thought you told me somebody was calling them Stalinists.
No.
They won't nobody will ask them uh uh if if about their Stalinistic behavior in terms of silencing what what Stalinism in this context is simply their desire for the f fair fairness doctrine.
You know, shut up people that don't agree with the state.
Intimidate people who say things that the state, in this case, the Democrats don't want to hear.
Uh make them retreat to their bathroom searching for hidden microphones before they whisper it to one another.
I mean, that's the objective.
That's that's a Stalinist tactic.
I mean, that's before you get to murdering the people who don't listen to you after you give them orders.
Stalin, Lynn and these guys were mass murderers.
But I don't mean it in that sense.
I'm talking about just big statists.
Yeah, manage your expectations out there, Deb.
The the um I I know what you're looking for.
You're looking for leadership that reflects what you think you think is as obvious to you as it be to anybody, and why do they, you know, pussyfoot around it and so forth.
That's they're not they're not gonna do it.
Uh especially especially, you know, whether it I don't care if it's Fox or CNN or even, you know, the Iranians won't even ask the Democrats this on their news network.
It just is not it's not gonna happen.
Angie, in uh in Buford, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
It's a privilege to talk to you.
I just have a brief comment about the Al Qaeda who are murdering children and roasting them.
I'm outraged by this, and I believe the entire country should be outraged.
And I'm glad that people like you bring it to the forefront.
But where's the drive by media?
What are I mean, this should be an outrage.
It's not the action line.
The action line is American atrocities.
The action uh you have to look at it this way.
The media has an agenda.
Their agenda is to manage the news.
Manage the news according to the outcome they desire.
The outcome they desire is American defeat in Iraq and of course the president's policy defeat.
And so anything that moves that forward is considered the action line.
So if you got an Abu Grab, if you got a club Gitmo, if you have uh Marines at Hadith, if you if you have uh atrocities, uh or if you have even 150 Iraqis blown up at a car bomb simply because the Americans are there, then that moves the action line forward.
But Al Qaeda atrocities do not move that action line forward.
And I do not understand that line of thinking on either the Democratic or the Republican part.
Because what these people are doing is representative of who they are internally.
And it's representative of a people that need to be taken down.
Exactly.
Of a people that need I mean, obviously we needed to go into Iraq and do something about these people because they're of that mindset.
We didn't create that in them.
That's like saying we shouldn't go after serial killers.
Yeah, but but we might make them mad.
I know, but the action line again is that we did create them.
The media and Democrat Party action line is that these people might have been running around doing all bunch of things, but they weren't doing them to us until but that of course ignores the existence of 9-11, uh, which they are doing everything they can to pretend never happen and create a uh a 910 uh uh mindset and a possibility of returning to it uh in the uh minds of the American people.
By the way, one thing on that on that story from Michael Young.
Uh uh the I the I think I misspoke when I said that there are pictures of the atrocity I described.
There are not pictures, there are pictures of all kinds of other atrocities.
Uh the atrocity I described uh was described to Michael Yon himself, uh and it's not the first time he's heard it.
There aren't any actual pictures of that, but we're we're gonna link to Yan's website at Rush Limbaugh.com and you will see uh uh some pretty gruesome pictures of other types of atrocities that Al Qaeda uh is uh is committing.
And these are atrocities designed to get people in line to intimidate them and and uh uh get them to stop opposing Al Qaeda because that's starting to uh happen.
I mean the dirty little secret over there is that the surge is working, and it's driving these Al Qaeda bands out of these places.
First they were in Baghdad, then then we drove them out to a different place, then they we surge, followed them there, drove them out to a different place, and they continue to go to little towns uh and have uh uh incidents that kill 150 people, where there are very few medical facilities, so it's a very bad result.
Uh and and uh so it's reported, oh my god, 150 worst incident one day in the history of the Iraq war.
Oh no, no, no.
Uh but you you don't find out that this is being done on purpose to try to break the will of the American people and the uh get the uh drive-by media to follow suit as you can make book on the fact that they will.
Uh but you're not hearing about all of the uh the Sunnis that are taking up arms against Iraq uh Al Qaeda because they're not they're not being as compliant as uh as people would expect them to be.
Anyway, your point about the atrocities is is just it's it's simply doesn't move the story forward.
No, do not forget this phrase, manage the news.
That is what journalism is.
Journalists are liberals for the most part, and they have an agenda, and they do have an interest in the outcome of events.
They're not dispassionate.
They're very engaged.
They want you to believe they're dispassionate, and they don't care how things turn out.
But we know that's not true.
And this every every story, I don't care if it's a local, you know, what a dog catcher ran over a cat.
There's an action line to every story.
Uh and government is horrible when Republicans run it is one action line.
It's beautiful and wondrous and camelot when Democrats are in charge of it.
Quick timeout, back after this.
I should have asked the guy from Terre Hot, Indiana if uh Iranian news network has um a show called a Situation Tent.
Imagine two mulas in there arguing one of them sets off a suicide vest.
By the way, speaking of all that, I th I I read about Madonna and her performance over at uh LiveEarth, and uh uh people are getting on her because of her huge carbon footprint.
Seven houses, eighteen cars, uh a private jet and so forth.
But you know, yip yep.
Uh apparently she simulated sex with a guitar.
Now that's that's not Madonna.
That's going soft.
That's simulated.
What a real thing.
That this this concert called for boldness.
This this concert called and and and you could she could have done something to explain how the real thing was helping neutralize the carbon footprint or or what have you.
I think she getting, you know, uh it's been at this a long time, and uh it's tough to continue to cross the line.
What do you mean, simulating sex with a guitar?
I mean, that's just pure fakery.
That's not Madonna.
We here in South Florida, ladies and gentlemen, are under conditions of a drought.
Actually, uh uh our reservoirs, the coastal areas where we live, we're fine and dandy.
We don't really need to be under water restrictions anymore.
Inland they do.
Uh and the water management board's uh being inflexible here.
Well, we're gonna have restrictions or we're not.
You can't change them every two months or so, oh, depending on rainfall.
So we're gonna we're gonna have restrictions, we're gonna have restrictions.
It means once a week you can you can lawn uh water the lawn.
It's not necessary anymore because now I can't stop it from growing.
Uh at least in a coastal area because there's been so much rain.
But get this.
70-year-old widow and a grandmother spent the morning in jail in Oram, Utah.
She was arrested for refusing to give a policeman her name when he tried writing her a ticket for failing to water her yard.
The woman hasn't watered her lawn in more than a year, and a condition of the yard violates a zoning ordinance in Oram, Utah.
Uh she says she's traumatized and shocked that she was hauled to jail just because she says she can't afford to water the lawn.
Name's Betty Perry.
I never thought they would ever do anything like that to a person that's 70 years old.
I've never bothered anybody.
I've never heard anybody.
I've got pictures of her yawning really lawn.
It's I mean, it's there is no lawn.
So here's a woman put in jail for not watering the lawn.
That's just not nice.
Put a 70-year-old in uh jail.
By the way, I've always said that you people, the people who make the country work.
USA Today.
Headline, Middle America volunteers most.
If you live in Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, or Austin, you're more likely to volunteer in your community than if you live in other metro areas.
But they rank the top 50 here.
Uh Minneapolis, St. Paul, Salt Lake City, Austin, Omaha, Seattle, Portland, Kansas City.
I'm looking for.
Oh, there's Pittsburgh.
There's a red uh blue city uh 13.
Bridgeport, Connecticut, 14.
It's amazing that you don't find anybody on the coasts here in this list of who volunteers more.
Middle America.
Here's Gene in Palm Harbor, Florida.
Glad to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
How are you?
Fine, never better.
Oh, good.
That's great to hear.
Listen, I I've listened to you for a very long time and appreciate all that you uh inform us on.
And I I could never really understand what the keyword was, uh why I listened so much and why I want to hear you so often.
And the reason is because I feel safe when I listen to your program.
I feel that you have taken all the the mud and the gore and uh everything else out of the news and given us the real truth.
And I just want to tell you, I really and truly appreciate that from you because feeling safe is very important today.
Well, that's very nice of you to say that the the g you you listen to this program and you have a you have a sense of security.
Yes.
That's right, a sense of security.
Um and the other thing I would like since I'm talking with you, I'd like to know why a woman's well woman's name hasn't called for the iPhone yet.
I know it's all pulled out little.
I understand I'm giving a bunch of people asking me if there's a coincidence here and there's not.
These are these are random drawings.
I understand that.
It just I mean, is it that there's so few of us that listen to you calls?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
There's nothing statistically that you can you can uh discern here from from uh from draw from the huge database that we've have uh six winners so far.
You can't determine that.
But I that's very nice of you to say, Gene.
I really appreciate it.
With women in my personal life, that feeling lasts about a month.
And we're gonna have another iPhone winner to announce tomorrow.
We get back, and I I do hope that uh the winner is uh woman.
I really do.
Look forward to tomorrow, folks.
Have a great Monday night.
We'll see you uh or uh afternoon and night.
We'll see you then.
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