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Nov. 20, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 20, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
For all the good you did yesterday, first thing out of the box is screw up today and forget to turn up the mic pot.
Here I am trying to greet you people to today's program, and it isn't working, but it is now.
There's so much gloom news out there.
I have a gloom stack.
It's just You may as well forget going anywhere at Thanksgiving.
You're not gonna get there and live, folks.
It's just it's amazing.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Linboy here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and three straight hours of broadcast excellence.
Looking forward to talking to you.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, and the uh email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
This is gonna be a long week.
You know, normally don't air a whole lot of dirty laundry from the family, but uh the first I guess it's eleven of them showed up uh last night about six.
And of course, had dinner all prepared and ready.
We're gonna eat at a reasonable hour.
And uh in the middle of hors d'oeuvres and adult beverages, my brother comes in and says, We can't find Caitlin, my eight-year-old little niece.
So uh he's looking out in the backyard.
He's looking near the swimming pool area, and uh said, okay, well, we'll wait.
We'll wait until you uh uh find out what happened.
A couple people went to help look for her.
I figured you had to be somewhere, the little game arcade that I've set up for them or whatever.
So it got to be nine o'clock.
And I said, uh, you know what?
We're gonna let's just go let's go in there and uh and then eat.
So I walk into the dining room and take the people in the library with me, go in the dining room, and I look in the kitchen, there's David and the kids and Caitlin and Lisa and so forth.
Where have you been?
Well, we were you were waiting so long to eat, we were gonna punt.
And I said, Well, we've been waiting for you to tell us whether you found Caitlin or not.
So we didn't want to start without you.
So anyway, we didn't we didn't start eating till 9 30, you know, and that's that's pretty late.
We had we had it we had Allen Brothers last night.
We're gonna have Allen Brothers every day this week.
Um we finished eating at midnight.
You know, and I am I mean that's for for the civilized Northeasterners, dinner doesn't start till nine o'clock, but I don't eat that late normally.
And who I well, we had uh well, it wasn't so much the courses as we had a bunch of appetizers to start in a library.
We had some uh little caviar on on uh toast points in there, and then some uh pigs in a blanket.
Uh and some wine of friends of family of mine are big wine aficionados.
And we had a Caesar salad, we had uh uh.
Well, you know, you know, HR say, what kind of wine goes to the pigs in a blank?
You know, I you people, you you think you can trick me up with these questions.
Let me let me now let me tell you you let me just let me just I served an Italian Cabernet last night called Sassakaya.
If you talk to anybody who knows wine, their tongue is on the floor right now.
At a double magnum of it.
You got to understand the f HR, you little smart aleck up there, the fat content.
These are Alan Brothers hot dogs that are used for the pigs in a blanket.
And they're bite-sized, and you have to understand that the fat in a in a hot dog is the same as the fat in a piece of beef.
It brings out the flavor of the Cabernet.
Uh well, screw the tannins.
Now let's not get technical here.
Remember, Rio Linden's listening to this program, and I don't want to have to start explaining tannins.
They were very slight last night anyway.
Uh so anyway, not much sleep last night on a uh on a full stomach, and then a cat, you know, headbutting me at 4 30 in the morning.
That was just the first day.
They're all gonna be here through Sunday.
The other 55 of them or whatever arrive on Wednesday.
So uh I'm not complaining.
I'm looking forward to it.
I'm I'm just saying it was last night was uh it was late, and uh you don't like to go to bed at a full stomach.
You just don't like to do that, do you?
Nobody does.
Anyway, six cheerleaders.
We were loaded today, folks.
Big shakeup in Iowa.
I told you about this poll yesterday that didn't come out until last night at hell Obama uh up uh three points over Hillary.
If you if you look at people who are actually gonna go to the Hawkeye Cawkeye, he's uh he's uh uh her lead uh sh his lead shrinks to two points.
But on the trust issue, way, way down there.
We'll have comments and audio on all this.
But first, six cheerleaders are fighting suspensions after they flashed football fans a message on their underpants.
This is from Ripon California.
Vice Principal Ken Goken ordered the girls to serve suspensions today and Wednesday for defying their coach and going ahead with a special cheer they choreographed for the last day of the football season.
The end of the cheer, the girls bent over, they lifted their skirts and showed the crowd the words Indians number one on their bloomers.
Bloomers.
We're not talking about thongs here, and we're not we're not talking about a little brief, we're talking about bloomers, the thing that your grandma used to wear.
But I don't understand the problem.
Indians number one, that's a pro-diversity message.
Especially during Thanksgiving week.
What's the problem with it?
From the gloom stack.
Rising delinquency rates on car and truck loans now have some industry analyst concern that subprime mortgage troubles could spill into the automotive finance business.
Oh no.
In a note to Investors Monday, Lehman Brothers analyst Brian Johnson said that his uh analysis of auto loan-backed securities sold by the Ford Motor Credit Company and GMAC financial services showed some higher delinquency rates for October and September compared with recent years.
Loan delinquencies could uh result in tighter credit by the auto company's financial units, freezing who?
The poor and minorities out of the car buying market.
Horrible out there, and get this, the Thanksgiving travel week got off to a rocky start yesterday.
Bad weather and equipment problems triggered airport delays that could worsen when a storm brings rain and snow to the center of the USA on Wednesday.
A front brewing in the Northwest is forecast to spread severe weather from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico, east of Vermont.
One of the highest volume travel days of the year, said Tom Moore, the senior meteorologist of the Weather Channel.
Wednesday is going to be a nightmare over a lot of the country, he said.
Although it's not going to be a colossal storm, there's going to be so much rain and low clouds, I would say there are going to be significant delays over large parts of the country.
You're not going to get there, folks.
This is USA Today, and they're telling you right now you're not going to get there.
Thanksgiving is going to be a bust.
It's going to be caused by weather delays already backed up in certain airports starting yesterday.
Don't even try.
Of course it's Bush's fault.
He can control the weather.
Everybody knows it.
He steered Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, but now he's letting the weather destroy citizens' Thanksgivings.
And he tried to buy his way out of it by pardoning the two turkeys today.
John Edwards campaign is uh selling.
Uh, let's see, five recipes from members of their campaign family in exchange for a contribution of twenty dollars and eight cents to 2008, the uh year of the election.
So for twenty dollars you can eat like John Edwards on Thursday.
And you know what, folks?
For nothing, you can use your own family recipes and enjoy it all the more.
Do you remember back in the late 80s, the phenomenon known as toad toad licking?
The Arkans the Arkansas spotted toad.
A man in Missouri has been arrested for possession of a hallucinogenic toad.
Police in Kansas City say that David Thieves planned to get high by licking the Colorado River Toad's venom glands.
The 21-year-old is accused of possessing the toad with the intention of using it as a hallucinogen.
They said that many pet shops in the area do not stock the animal because the venom can make people sick and it can kill household pets.
Now you have to You have to ask you when you when you hear about a toad that uh secretes some hallucinogenic substance, and that you can only ingest this by licking the toad, can you imagine, like everything else in the world, somebody had to discover this?
Somebody had to be the first to do this.
And I've always been fascinated by whoever it was.
Walking along in Colorado, because and you see a toad, what in the world would be your impulse to pick it up and lick it.
Uh, don't give me this happy accident business.
This is, I mean, what did somebody trip over a twig, their mouth hit the toad, uh, and they ended up hallucinogening.
This is this is the these are the kind of things that I am forever perplexed about.
Imagine yourself, folks.
Imagine yourselves in the woods somewhere wherever wherever the Colorado toad hangs out, and you're running around, you're minding your own business.
You're probably an environmentalist wacko, uh, you know, out on your typical hike through the bountyless nature preserve that you're using as as a as an excuse and a respite from the hustle bustle of civilized life, and you run across the toad.
And you say, hmm, I think I will pick up that toad and lick it.
Somebody had to do it first, and then after they did it, they had to tell somebody else that they did it, and then that person said, ooh, cool.
And it had to spread this way.
I mean, this is not taught in the textbook.
This is not, I've always been.
Uh what do you mean ancient peoples?
Maybe ancient people, what, what licking frogs is a is a is uh is an ancient people's thing, part part part of eating the frogs, you mean?
Maybe that's it.
But you know, so you you know somebody had to die.
Somebody had to die for us to learn that you have to cook a lobster uh all the way through before you eat the darn thing.
Somebody had to somebody ought to do a book on these kinds of things that we know, and how do we know them and who died so that we could live knowing what we know?
Back in just a second.
Here's a story, folks.
This is just this is just unbelievable.
The U.S. military says that it has convincing and irrefutable evidence, irrefutable for those of you in Rio Linda, that an award-winning associated press photographers connected to the insurgency in Iraq, the photographer Bilal Hussein, Zidone, faces charges in the Iraqi Central Court based on the evidence, Pentagon officials said.
Uh Jeff Morrill, the spokesman there, other U.S. military officials would not say directly what charges he faced.
They referred reporters to the Iraqi court system.
Uh Hussein, an Iraqi who lives in the western Anbar province city of Ramadi has been held without charge by the U.S. military since April of 2006 when bomb parts and insurgent propaganda were found in his house after the U.S. military asked to use it as an observation post during an operation.
Now, why would anybody think that an Iraqi named Hussein might be tied to terrorists?
Is this not the worst profiling we have ever seen in this entire war?
And who would ever suspect AP of hiring somebody who was on the enemy's side?
Who could ever imagine a drive-by media?
I'm sorry, Reuters did that in uh Beirut, didn't they?
Really, what a shock.
Somebody named Hussein tied to the terrorists working for AP.
The ABC Iowa poll mentioned this to you yesterday.
It's Obama 30, Hillary27, and the Breck girl at 22%.
If you look closer, if you look at the internals, you will see that the lead that Obama has is two points, not three.
It's this is margin of error stuff.
Uh when you uh when you ask people who are definitely going to go to the hawkeye cockeye.
Now, uh there's there's some conventional wisdom out there.
Scott Rasmussen and his polling data and Dick Morris both say that Iowa only matters.
Well, Hillary can lose Iowa and s and and really not be hurt by it.
Uh unless she loses by ten points.
Rasmussen's theory is that Iowa only matters if Hillary wins or else loses by ten points.
But you have to wonder folks, if if Obama really does win the Iowa caucuses.
The conventional wisdom is that Hillary was never going to run strong there and that she can withstand the loss, but you know, that's you almost throw that out because the drive-bys are already going berserk with this news.
They can't they can barely contain themselves.
Let's start at the top of the audio sound bites.
Uh they're acting stunned, they're acting shocked.
This is a montage from last night and tomorrow when the ABC polling data was released.
Here are the poll numbers from Iowa.
For the very first time, Barack Obama now leads in the state.
30% for Barack Obama, 26% for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama at 30%, Hillary Clinton 26.
Barack Obama with 30% support, and Hillary Clinton with 26% in the make or break state of Iowa.
Barack Obama has a slim lead, 30% Hillary Clinton at 26.
Wow, Barack Obama 30, Hillary Clinton 26.
Yeah, they're all stunned by nothing.
This stunned.
I mean, I know why are they so stunned?
They have made him.
The drive-by's have made Obama who he is.
What if they're i but if they're this stunned over a poll in November, and he actually pulls this out, uh, then they can create the image that this was a huge upset.
Why, nobody was expecting this.
Why, what happened to the inevitability of Mrs. Clinton?
Let's go to uh this morning's Good Morning America.
Robin Roberts spoke with George Steffi Stephanopoulos about these numbers.
Um question is this along with Obama's lead, the ABC News poll shows some troubling results when it comes to honesty with the Senator Clinton.
Only 50% of those polls say she's willing to say what she really thinks.
And when asked who was most trustworthy, Obama beats her two to one.
So what is it they don't think she's being honest about?
A whole lot of things, uh, Robin.
Remember two weeks ago there was this debate where uh Hillary had some trouble answering this questions on whether or not she would give driver's license to illegal immigrants.
Ever since then, her opponents, both Barack Obama and John Edwards, have been driving this issue of honesty and trustworthiness on every issue.
They say that Senator Clinton is not saying what she thinks about Social Security, is not saying what she thinks about what she would do in Iran or Iraq, and it's starting to take a toll on Senator Clinton now in Iowa.
I hate to agree with George Steffi Stephanopoulos, but he's right, she's in a fight now.
Whether anybody acknowledges that beyond Stephanopoulos's or not, uh she is.
Uh and and notice it didn't take a whole lot for this to happen.
It took one talk show host, me, forcing a question in one debate on illegal aliens getting driver's licenses in the state of New York.
And that caused fallout on a whole bunch of things.
It really didn't take much to disrupt this notion of inevitability.
Let's go to hardball with Chris Matthews last night talking to the uh Washington Post's Chris Silesia.
Question, let's talk about Barack Obama and a big pop he got out there in Iowa.
I think everyone's gonna see this tomorrow and think, wow, Barack Obama 30, Hillary Clinton 26.
Now, pollsters will tell you, well, the statistical margin of error, not all that much has changed baloney.
This this race is about perception.
And if people perceive Barack Obama as surging, that is very important.
Remember, the biggest argument in Hillary Clinton's favor is that she is inevitable, that she's gonna win this nomination no matter what.
Well, when polling starts to come out that shows Barack Obama ahead of her, that argument really goes to pieces.
So you can see the drive by's here are just beside themselves with excitement and glee.
And because they like covering exciting things.
And of course they think this was unexpected.
And if she actually loses Iowa, why you can expect this times ten.
And I'm like I say, she's in a fight now, whether she whether anybody acknowledges it or not.
Uh and and she's it didn't take much to cause it, didn't take much for a lot of this to happen.
And I'm convinced, folks, uh that her support outside of a minority of Democrat power brokers is actually fairly thin.
I actually believe this.
I think she's she's a she's a an unwell, I can't say unknown.
She just it's nothing real about this.
This whole notion of inevitability, it's it's gotten its first whack now.
I don't think Democrats, I don't think they really like her.
I think there's more fear of the whole Clinton machine inside the Democrat Party than there is genuine affection uh for Mrs. Clinton.
They don't like her bullying tactics.
They don't like the minions that she employs.
Uh And you watch, all these people care about is winning.
And they will drop her like a hot potato if they think she won't win the Democrat primary or the general election.
If that ever, if that notion gets in enough heads of these shaky little Democrats out there, and I'm talking about the power brokers.
They will drop her, and they'll they'll they'll have hell to pay with Clinton Bill Clinton on the other side of this.
I'm not saying, now don't get ahead of yourselves here.
I'm not saying she won't be nominated or I'm not saying that she will be.
Uh, I'm saying this is a potentially tighter battle than the drive-bys want it to be and have reported it to be.
She's got to fight for this nomination.
That was never the plan.
The plan was to make it look like she was in a fight and had beaten Obama, but the actual intention to have a fight was never part of the plan.
No need to think about it, folks.
We do that for you here.
I say it, you believe it.
That's our motto here at the EIB network.
We've got a little uh inside radio stuff here for just a brief second.
Mike, I need I got a song I want you to find and edit a bumper rotation as soon as you can, uh shaking all over, but a guess who.
All right.
Back to this Hillary Clinton business.
Yeah, I remember playing that song when I was a kid.
I heard it on the radio the other day, and I had not heard it, I don't know how many years, and I'm obsessing over it.
Now I want to continue this Hillary analysis.
She that this fight, she's in a real fight, and this was never part of the plan.
The plan was to make it look like she was in a fight to counter the inevitability to show her as having strength and force and power and commitment and all that rot.
But now she's really, really in a fight, and it didn't take a lot for it to happen.
She's got a big problem, folks.
She is a bad candidate.
And despite all this talk, you know, the drive-by is how disciplined she is and how on message she is.
She's a bad candidate, and she's a bad candidate because she's not likable.
She has a terrible delivery.
She is a radical, trying to conceal her radicalism.
Exactly as I told Martha McCallum yesterday.
She's trying to do everything she can to keep people from finding out what her real agenda is.
That makes her appear like a flip-flopper and somebody who's unsure of herself.
Uh a la this driver's licenses for illegals, and even that Las Vegas debate, the whole thing was a was a sop to Clinton.
Uh you got Carville that works at CNN, Bigala who works at CNN.
You got six Democrat operatives as question plants, uh, while we're being told that they are undecided independent voters, uh, and so forth.
There were no hard questions of the moderators at all.
And what what Hillary's going for here is her party's apparatus.
She wants to secure the power of the Democrat Party's apparatus and have that guarantee her the nomination rather than actually winning it in votes.
She's got to do both, but the apparatus is who turns out votes for people.
They're the ones that have the walking around money.
The apparatus is going to make sure that certain cockeye caucys go to the cawkeye, you know, in caucus when they get to the caucus.
Uh she and her henchmen uh control the Democrat Party.
Americans uh think progress, Americans from whatever it is, the pedestal group, Media Matters for America, they they control the party apparatus as Bill Clinton and Clinton Inc.
She's a poor candidate, uh despite the claim that she's disciplined and all that, and she knows she's a poor candidate.
This is a dirty little secret, which is why she limits press contact.
It's why she's raising a fortune for propaganda commercials, so she doesn't have to do anything in person that actually reaches out and connects with people.
Uh Obama.
Let's talk about him for just a second.
Obama full of platitudes and the usual left-wing nonsense, and his inexperience uh is on display.
Uh and and especially when it comes to policy, but he's a likable guy.
And he's good on the campaign trail.
You know, back in back in 2004, I have made this analogy repeatedly, and I don't think it's uh uh a full-fledged good analogy, a total analogy, but back at this time in 2004, who was I guess it'd be 2003, who was the presumed nominee was Howard Dean, goes to Iowa and he lost by over 15 points there, and that was it.
Then we got the scream.
Uh So he was going to go on to New Hampshire.
Ah.
And he was done.
And then here came the haughty John Kerry who was borrowing six million dollars from his wife about this time in 2003 to be able to stay in the campaign.
The Democrats care about winning, and they're gonna they're gonna flock to whoever they think is electable, which is what happened to Kerry after the uh after the Hawkeye caught guy.
That gave him momentum going into uh into New Hampshire.
Now the Des Moines Register, there's a column today.
Yes, Mr. Snerdley, what's the qu you?
Wait, I didn't say she's not electable.
I said, I'm not saying she's not electable, I'm not saying she's gonna win or is gonna lose.
I'm just saying she's in a fight now, and it's not in this was not anticipated.
And and and the the idea that that the she's running this disciplined campaign and so forth uh is is it's falling apart.
She's she's not a good candidate.
This is it look it to understand this, and I hate to be redundant, but you've got to go back and ask yourself a couple of really fundamentally simple questions.
If her name were not Clinton, would we even be talking about her as a as a presidential candidate?
What in the world has she done?
Literally, what has she done?
What are her qualifications?
Where what has she done to reunite the country?
What has she done to motivate and inspire the country?
What has she done in her career that will lead anybody to believe she's presidential?
Nothing.
It's just her turn.
This is this is this is nothing more than a sop to her for bucking up Bill all these years and making sure he stayed viable.
And by the way, it's Bill's desire to stay in the White House too and get back in there for another eight years.
This is there's there's other than that, there's nothing if her name, uh, you know, last name were Hillary Smith, didn't nobody we even know her.
We wouldn't even know her.
Now, you may think this is a put down, but she's out there talking about 35 years of standing up for children standing up for the poor.
Did you ever hear about her before 1992 when the presidential campaigns?
If she's got all these years of experience, I want to know how come the reputation didn't start until Bill starts seeking the White House in 1992.
So I'm saying that kind of campaign is one built on cards, not legitimacy.
And to prop up an illegitimate candidate and candidacy, you need the henchman who control a Democrat Party.
You need a certain way of behaving so that you're not challenged so that your inexperience and your unlikability are not on display all the time.
That's why she's raising all this money to run propaganda commercials, uh, which are gonna be full of platitudes.
Let's let me give you a better illustration of this.
Maybe not better, but a different one.
Different way of going about this.
Hillary has an op ed of Des Moines Register today.
Headline, restore U.S. leadership, rebuild the middle class.
After eight years of failed leadership under President Bush, the next president will face extraordinary challenges.
A war to end, an economy to revive, an energy crisis to solve, 47 million Americans to insure, a homeland to secure, alliances to repair, and a world in need of American leadership.
Now I could reread that whole sentence, changing one word, and it would be accurate.
After eight years of failed leadership under President Clinton, the next president will face extraordinary challenges, a war to end, Kosovo, Bosnia, an economy to revive.
We had a recession, 2001, 2002, an energy crisis to solve, 47 million Americans to insure, a homeland to secure, alliances to repair, and a world in need of American leadership.
My point is in eight years of Clinton, they did none of these things, and yet she's saying, I've got the experience to fix these things.
You had eight years, Mrs. Clinton, you and your husband, and you did nothing.
Every single item here is totally valid if you put the name President Clinton in it instead of President Bush.
So you Tell me where is her experience?
They were belly aching over 42 million uninsured back when he she wanted to start her health care plan and got nothing done on it.
Where you know Kucinich.
He he actually said something that made sense in the last debate.
He said, What in the world do we want people who've failed once and said they can do it?
Why give them a second chance when they haven't done it the first time?
And he was really talking about uh about about Hillary.
By the way, I think the Clintons, if they're on the ball, if they're on the ball, they will say that that poll question on honesty is a personal attack on Mrs. Clinton, and they will attack ABC, and they'll send a note over to the political director at ABC warning him not to put such questions in polls again, or ills.
I would be typical of the Clintons.
Let's let's keep going with this piece.
Today, Mrs. Clinton writing in the Des Moines register today.
Today we're ready for a change.
But we know that change is just a word without the strength and experience to make it happen, so we need a president who's been tested, who's ready to lead on day one, fight for results every day in the White House.
That is exactly what I have been doing for the past thirty-five years, standing up for abused and neglected children as a young lawyer, for universal health care as first lady, and for our troops and first responders, family farmers, rural families, and others while in the Senate.
Fine.
Thirty-five years of standing up, and where are the results?
Thirty-five years of grand exp if she really had worked wonders in the last thirty-five years, there wouldn't be an argument over this.
If she'd really done all these standing up, I've stood up for a lot of people too.
Stand up for myself a lot of times.
That's nothing.
I've pointed fingers at people who are the reason children are poor.
Have you solved child poverty?
Well, I've called attention to it, I care.
This is Mrs. Clinton speaking.
We ain't done anything.
If she had, then there and by the way, if she had all these records in the Clinton library and massage parlor.
Uh prove it, they'd get them out.
I'm telling you they'd get them out.
There's nothing there, folks, other than the perceived inevitability, and it's her turn.
Let's let's keep going.
You know where I stand, she writes in the Des Moines Register, and you know that when I stand with you, I never give up.
I never back down, I never stop fighting, no matter how tough it gets.
This may be the most absurd of all.
She just gave up and she just backed down on fighting for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
And she gave up in a matter of two weeks.
She did two flip-flops on that.
I never give up.
I never back down, and I never stop fighting.
And then there's this final passage that I will share with you from her Des Moines Register column.
Third, I will reform our government.
No more cronyism and no bid contracts will appoint qualified people to positions of power again.
All right.
Janet Reno, Henry Cisneros, Jamie Gorellic, Madeline Albright, Ira Magaziner, Sandy Burglar.
She's she says that she has a record of appointing qualified corruption free people to the government.
This is why, ladies and gentlemen, I am your host.
Others could read this column and just sit there and go, This is BS.
I have demonstrated it to you as total BS in a way that you will not have demonstrated to you anywhere else, unless, of course, we're plagiarized, which we expect happens.
Wow, that was fast.
Here it is shaken all over by the uh by the guess who.
All right, let's grab some phone calls.
People have uh been waiting, but I've got an LA Times story here, the uh Clinton Obama clash over experience.
This story is close to saying Hillary aside from marrying Bill, what have you done?
Here is Terry in Prescott, Arizona.
Hi, Terry, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Happy Thanksgiving, Rush.
Thanks for having me on.
Thank you, sir.
Your question about toad licking is is right on point because it's one of those examples of how people don't have any sense of history.
When I was a freshman in college back in 1971, we actually learned anthropology from the anthropology teacher, and they told us that the shaman always had an assistant, and the shaman's assistant was a taster, and the shaman went out, the religious leader of the tribe went out every day, all day, and got everything they could, grounded up, dried, whatever, and they fed it to the assistant and then studied what happened to the assistant.
So the official taste tester, if you will, of the shaman.
Sort of like the beef eaters.
Exactly.
He was the toad eater.
He was the, you know, when you when when you read uh the the Plains Indians, the six tribes of the Salish up in uh north central uh Montana, Minnesota, etc.
Those people had all kinds of things that got them high.
And among those were the uh uh desicant, the uh defecations from certain animals.
Now it just you're not gonna be.
Now you know, wait a second.
Wait, wait, wait just I heard we had this story.
I didn't get to it because bathroom stuff makes me nervous, but there was a story within the last two weeks about this.
Yeah, well, it these this is just like global warming.
You need people who have a sense of history and have a sense of, you know, not all the intellect on earth was discovered today.
And people who don't have a sense of the caveman wasn't a caveman, the caveman had to be brighter on an individual basis than people today because they had to survive in a world that was much more difficult, much more threatening.
They had to make greater at it.
I disagree with that because I don't think there was any feminism back in the caveman days.
Back in the caveman days, it was birth of butts and the butt sisters, and they're being dragged around by their hair by Fred Flintstone types.
Well, there are imposed difficulties today, much in the same way that the modern environmental movement is anti-human and sexist and racist and which is wishes to kill people and save whales.
There are imposed difficulties, but they can be unimposed and be unimposed rather quickly when people determine that they'll act in a way to preserve liberty and increase freedom.
Okay, so kind of kind of you're absolutely right about this.
I especially appreciate you kind of snuck it in there.
Uh back when you took anthropology and were taught anthropology instead of bushbashing or global warming, you actually could learn these things.
That's right.
But let's cut to the chase here.
So what you're saying here is that uh the art of frog licking was more than likely because it's a Colorado frog, the Colorado River toad or whatever, more than likely it was our ancient ancestors, the Native Americans, who discovered the phenomenon of the hallucinogenic venom uh in the Colorado uh warden toad or whatever it is.
Absolutely, and much in the same way that the uh Native American religions uh have uh religious rituals with peyote and other naturally occurring substances, peyote, which is the butt and the the seed off a cactus, no one would say let's go bite the cactus.
So it's it is a process of accretion of knowledge that occurred over centuries, but it was systematic, even though it wasn't a written language, it was a systematic oral history.
You sound like a smart guy, so I have a little pop quiz for you.
Okay it's not a trick question, it's genuine Can you tell me who discovered tobacco and then discovered what to do with it?
Because you'll see to brack tobacco growing out of the ground.
The last thing you would think to do with it is what we do with it.
So who discovered that?
Well, Walter Raleigh gave it to the English, but he got it from the Native Americans.
Exactly my point.
Exact.
You ever see there's a great old comic routine where where New Hart does this where he's Raleigh calling back to the king to tell him what he's found?
Have you ever seen that?
It's the funniest thing.
You get these leaves off the ground, and the king covers the phone and goes, Hey, Walter's gone off the far end, he wants us to smoke leaves.
It's just hilarious.
If you can get a cut of that, it is one of the funniest things.
I think uh Walter Raleigh, this this uh uh it was it was native peoples.
I think I think cigars actually uh are traced to Cuba, are they not?
The West Indies.
You know, I think I think you'd be safe on the West Indies.
I wouldn't make it specifically Cuba, but I'm not a I'm not like you, I'm not a cigar aficionado.
I don't have that much background in in cigars, but I know that's doesn't matter.
I mean we call we all can't know everything, I'm sure you understand.
Oh, I am we I'm more than willing to defer to you on that.
Oh great one.
But I just okay, so Native Americans gave us frog licking.
Native Americans gave us religious ceremonies with peyote, and Native Americans gave us tobacco.
And uh look how we've repaid them, folks.
We're going to be talking about this in greater detail in the next hour, but have you seen the statistics on AIDS and how the United Nations vastly overinflated the number of infections?
Now revising down the actual number of cases.
Uh, and the vast majority of these uh expectations of high incidences of AIDS in this country didn't pan out.
Uh now this this this is this is the classic doom and gloom alarmism that I'm trying to warn everybody about, and it's happening right now with global warming, and it isn't going to be long, a couple years, and we're getting the same stuff from the UN.
UN's uh uh thoughts on global warming uh revise downward after further research.
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