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Jan. 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 11, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, welcome back from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's the EIB Network and a brand new episode of the Rush Limbaugh program on Friday, live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And I promise we're going to devote this hour to your phone calls, right?
I asked Mr. Snurgley at the break.
How many calls have I taken?
He said two.
So two.
I've taken two calls on open line Friday.
He said, yep.
He also said these are the best shows.
Just kidding, folks.
I can't wait to talk to you.
Here's a telephone number, 800 282-2882.
Email address rush at EIB net.com.
By the way, uh something I don't think has been mentioned.
I'm going to spend a little time here on the Democrat side of things and the other exciting news items out there.
Have you ever stopped to think back to the New Hampshire primary, the uh couple days leading up to it?
Remember the drive-by is all excited that Mrs. Clinton in pre-election polls was going to lose anywhere from five to twelve points.
And throughout the day of the New Hampshire primary and their coverage, just all excited about this.
This didn't, it did this didn't hit me until a little bit later.
But it was to me uh unique.
The drive-by's up until recently would just bend over forward grabbing the ankles for the Clintons.
You know, whatever.
But we started noticing in the summertime and in the fall some uh some pretty hard-hitting hit pieces from former slavish Clinton reporters like Ron Fournier of the Associated Press and our old buddy Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press.
And there was quite there's a lot of serious dumping on the Clintons, and then the New York Times in the week leading up, Bill's not attracting any crowds, his audiences are half asleep, they're walking out early, but it got me to thinking, you know, this was it was it was the reason for this, and I think uh that the reason all the drive-bys, uh, and I mean all you you'd be hard pressed to find one who was not dumping on Hillary last week.
And you know what I think?
I think the reason they did that, the reason they were falling all over each other to trash her, was out of sheer relief that she might not be the candidate.
And I I think it was very illustrative in showing just how much the drive bys hate the idea of President Hillary.
I I still don't think they're still out there talking about they're excited over Obama's endorsements, the culinary union.
Uh Janet Napolitano, the uh governor of Arizona has endorsed Obama.
That's another thing.
You realize there's there seems to be a lot less fear on the Democrat side of going against the Clintons.
I mean, the Clintons have let it be known as the machine candidate.
If you're not with us, you're forever gonna be on the outs.
If you don't endorse Hillary, then you're not gonna be part of our administration, you're not gonna be granted good favors and blah, blah, blah.
And there seems to be less and less fear of that.
Now, in South Carolina, James Clyburn, Democrat member Congress, ranking member Congressional Black Caucus, assumed all along to be going for Hillary.
He's backed off.
He's upset at the Clinton's term for sp uh uh Obama and foreign policy not having done enough spade work.
Uh they're not happy with the way the Clintons have used disguised racism in dumping an Obama.
If Clyburn, and I don't know if it's going to happen, but if Jim Clyburn decided to endorse Obama in South Carolina, that that's one endorsement that might you know have an impact for all this talk about Bill Clinton being the nation's first black governor or president, and how stupid was that.
But that that's something that survived uh as well.
So I I have detected uh that the drive bys are not that enamored of their Clintons anymore, and uh we're just looking forward to her getting shellacked.
And it may be they're just tired of being slaves.
It was Eight years.
Try this headline.
PETA.
People for the ethical treatment of animals requests vegetarian diet in jail for cannibalism suspect.
Sheriff's officials were astounded.
Where is this?
This is Tyler, Texas.
Sheriff's officials were astounded yesterday by a letter requesting the man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly participating in cannibalism be placed in a vegetarian diet to keep him from being involved in any senseless killing while incarcerated.
This is not the onion.
This is not Scott Ott.
This is not Scrappleface.
This is not satire.
PETA request vegetarian diet in jail for cannibalism suspect.
Look at this twisted story.
This is um this is from the Baltimore Sun, but it's it's about uh New Jersey and Maryland.
The state's high court.
He upheld yesterday a decision to deny a driver's license to a Maryland resident whose permit in New Jersey was suspended because he had forged citizenship documents.
Ramiro Silva Alvez, who is from Mexico, received a New Jersey license that was withdrawn after it expired in ninety-one because the applicant had made misrepresentations on his application when he arrived in the United States.
Unlike Maryland, New Jersey requires applicants to prove they are American citizens before licensing.
But Maryland law prohibits its motor vehicle administration from issuing driver's licenses to people whose licenses are suspended in other states.
And remember, this is the issue that tripped up Mrs. Clinton, driver's licenses for illegals for the Los Angeles Times.
Democrats hit the trail again with friends.
Let me tell you how the Times writes this, and let me translate it for you.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton spent the afternoon and evening campaigning in Nevada, whose nineteen caucuses will be the next important Democrat contest.
She snared an influential endorsement of her own, Henry Cisneros, the first Latino Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Can I rewrite that for you?
Can I tell what the headline for this story ought to be?
Hillary picks up support from indicted politician who had mistresses.
Subhead, and it's not her husband.
Well, Mrs. Narros served in Clinton's administration.
Uh it was indicted on all this.
He pled it down to a uh to a felony.
Uh, but nevertheless.
Also, uh the drive-by is, you know, this story's been out there a long time.
It's been the Chicago Tribune has been spending a lot of time on this story.
The drive-by's just ignored it, but now all of a sudden Brian Ross and the ABC investigative unit are on the case.
In sharp contrast to his tough talk about ethics reform in government, Senator Obama approached a well-known Illinois political fixer under active federal investigation, Antoine Tony Rezco, for advice.
As he sought to find a way to buy a house shortly after being elected to the United States Senate.
The parcel included an adjacent lot, which Obama told a tribune he couldn't afford because it was already a stretch to buy the house.
On the same day Obama closed in his house, Rezco's wife bought the adjacent empty lot, meeting the condition of the seller, wanted to sell both properties at the same time.
Rezco had been widely reported to be under investigation by the U.S. attorney and FBI at the time Obama contacted him and has since been indicted on corruption charges by a federal grand jury.
What's interesting about this is that Obama was making U.S. Senator's salary of what, 140, whatever it was back then, and his house of 1.6 million.
Hmm.
Subprime loan.
Anybody?
Working oh, sorry, yes, working wife making 180,000.
Mrs. Clinton in Los Vegas yesterday, walking Hispanic neighborhoods.
You seen the video?
They're going door to door, walking Hispanic neighborhoods, walking inside...
Some people's houses sitting down and talking to them.
Talking about the subprime mortgage.
She said unscrupulous lending leads to bad mortgages which lead to foreclosures, which lead to people with nowhere to go and vacant neighborhoods that can go rapidly downhill.
We treat these problems as if one is guacamole and one is chips.
When they go together.
We treat the problems as if one is guacamole and one is chips.
I mean, you let a Republican say this about a bunch of Hispanics.
Uh I I'll tell you something.
She was walking down the street.
Um not Sir Douglas Quintetti, she's about a mover.
She's walking down the street there with all of the entourage.
Uh and let me just give you this uh this some of these quotes in the story from the Las Vegas uh reviewed journal.
Uh Gilberto Santana, 38, sat on the edge of a chair as Hillary sat in a brown leather sofa in his living room next to his wife and his two young crumb crunchers.
Santana told Clinton how his wife Elizabeth, a housekeeper on the strip, was barely supporting the family single-handedly while he was unable to find work for two months because of an operation.
We're sort of struggling, he said.
We're getting there, but uh you have to be strong to make it.
Clinton asked a couple questions about their mortgage, his disability payments, and answered his questions about immigration and the war and health care costs.
Stroking the four-year-old little girl's head, Hillary said, I feel so strongly if we don't take care of our children, we don't take care of our future.
Gilberto Santana said we are doing everything we can to make sure that everyone in Las Vegas votes for you.
In broken English, one woman told Hillary Clinton how she wasn't making money as a broker anymore.
I have no income at all.
How am I gonna survive?
How am I gonna survive?
Choking up with emotion, a woman said, In in my neighborhood, there are brand new homes, but the value is nothing.
I'm glad you're here so I can tell you because you're you're gonna be the president.
I know.
A man shouted through an opening in the wall.
His wife was illegal.
Mrs. Clinton shouted back, no woman is illegal.
To cheers.
No woman is illegal.
Mrs. Clinton in Los Vegas, drumming up votes for the Las Vegas caucus.
Right.
She wants she wants to she wants to hit up ice.
Immigration control enforcement.
Yep.
No woman is illegal.
This isn't playing the gender card.
No woman is illegal.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting network.
All right.
Oops.
Hang on, folks.
a little tickle in the throat here.
Now I know I've got better manners than that, but this is radio, and if I sip this silently, it'll be dead air, and dead air never hurt anybody, but I slurped it on purpose.
To the phones, Rosalinda in Seymour, Indiana.
Rosalinda, I remember you.
Hi, Russ.
How are you?
I'm just fine.
You know how I remember you?
What's that?
You have the dog that you named Mr. Limbaugh.
That's right.
And the last time you called and told me this, after you hung up, I got you know a little concerned because you know, you didn't want you to start calling the vet, say, Mr. Limbaugh, I need to bring Mr. Limbaugh in to be neutered.
Uh Mr. Limbaugh has rabies.
Can I bring I it was very so they didn't want you to call a vet and say that because that's how rumors get started.
Yes.
I I was laughing for about 15 minutes after that.
Well, how how are you, Rosalinda?
I'm doing great.
I wanted to let you know we we bought a new home and it came with a barn, which we inherited a cat, and so we decided to name her Hillary.
Because we're not fans of cats.
And she likes to torment Mr. Limbaugh and our other dog Maddie.
So You just keep adding to it.
Yeah.
But I also wanted to say uh uh just wanted to thank God because tomorrow is my husband's birthday as well.
Tim.
So happy birthday to you and Tim.
Well, thank thanks, Rosalinda.
I uh I appreciate that.
But does uh does uh what does the cat Hillary is just a you know a uh uh a regular run-of-the-mill mutt cat.
I don't know what she is.
Uh I she's black with like gold speckles all over.
Um she's very interesting looking.
I should be a reverse leopard.
Yeah.
Did uh did does this does this Hillary uh make Mr. Limbaugh foam at the mouth.
She makes him very aggravated because he's on a chain and so he can only get so close to her.
So that's not good either, Mr. Limbaugh on a chain.
But it's typical.
Uh what what what kind of dog is Mr. Limbaugh?
Well, they said he was a beagle, but he's looking more like a boxer.
All right.
So we think he's a boxer.
All right.
All right.
That's good.
That's cool.
Now, uh Rosalie, another question before you get to your topic.
I'm stunned.
We live in a depressed economy.
We're almost near a recession, and yet you bought a house.
A second house.
We own two now.
A second house with a barn.
Yes.
Now this frankly does not compute to me with uh, you know, here we are on the verge of a recession.
How is this possible?
You could buy a second house as a barn with a throw-in cat.
Um I don't know.
God has blessed us.
We have good jobs and uh we make a good living.
You mean you and your husband work?
Yes.
Well, that must be it.
That must be it, yes.
Good.
Then that means there are jobs to be had.
All right.
Rosa Willamy, have you have you uh academic times?
I know you live out there in Seymour, Indiana.
I don't know whether it's public transportation there, but you take the bus, do you take light rail to get where you're going?
No, we actually have to drive vehicles, and we actually just got a new truck.
Well, the more this is not fair of you.
Here you are bragging about your affluence to a nation that is cringing in fear, cowering in the corners, fearing a recession.
And look listen to you.
You just blithely proudly brag about all your acquisitions.
Well, again, we're blessed, and um and I actually work in an industry where I encourage people to save for retirement and save in the stock market.
So what is that industry?
That's that's rare.
Yeah, 401ks.
So um, you know, it's uh I'm definitely sending out the opposite message of most people.
Terrific.
Well, it's great to know that you're in the audience.
People like you are greatly appreciated.
Now uh enough uh banter.
What was it that uh inspired your call today?
Well, I watched the Republican debate last night and I was really excited to see Fred Thompson more fired up, more passionate.
Um but my one concern with him is that the the media claims that that his campaigning efforts are very kind of lazy.
And so with this whole Obama rock star kind of thing going on, you know, would he really be able to compete with that?
Would he really be able to get people behind us?
You know, so this is so absurd.
Have you have you listened to that that upset you?
What?
What that th what what the media is saying?
Well, i they they just keep lifting Obama up.
Oh, there's so much energy at his campaign.
Of course they are.
Let me tell you what they're trying to do here.
I've I've I'm I hate to be redundant, but uh uh you've been so busy buying things you may not have had chance to listen to the whole show today.
But the whole purpose of this is to dispirit conservatives like you into not supporting Thompson or the candidate of your choice.
They're building up McCain.
They never say McCain can't afford a loss in here.
They never say McCuckabee can't afford a loss, but they're out there saying if Fred loses and his campaign's too late.
It doesn't matter, he got tarted too late.
Uh if uh Rudy doesn't win soon, he's out.
If Romney loses Michigan, why he's done and so forth.
Uh they're trying to build up candidates on our side that they think Obama and Hillary or Hillary could easily beat.
They will tell you who the conservatives are each and every time by trashing the Republicans they fear who are conservative, and they'll uh they'll go soft on the Republicans that think are moderate, not as conservative.
Don't fall for this.
They're trying you they're they're there's it with you, it appears they're succeeding in doing exactly what they want to do.
Well, you liked Fred's performance last night, but he's gonna start too late.
Where's this been?
I w we've only had two states.
Well, they haven't succeeded because I was a Mike Cuckabee supporter.
I'm an evangelical Christian, and so at first when he was way down in the polls, I thought he was pretty interesting guy.
But as more scrutiny has come and I've been looking into it, I've I've moved on to other candidates.
So um, you know, even though I'm an evangelical, I'm not behind Huckabee.
I think there's other things that are just as important.
Well, you're you look at you're making a great point.
It's fluid on both sides.
It was just five days ago that Obama had gone from three point victory in Iowa to what was going to be a five to twelve points victory in New Hampshire, too, what two point loss.
Five days.
Drive by is beside themselves.
Uh We've had two states.
We've had states where the Republican population, voting population is mostly conservative, haven't even weighed in yet.
Be patient.
Very flew it out.
That's exactly right.
Real life, it is what it is.
One of our themes here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So Hillary Clinton says no woman is illegal.
Fine.
Solution to this, every man crossing into the border get a sex change first.
Come across the border in Mrs. Clinton's administration, he she will be legal.
By the way, Mrs. Clinton, there's something going on here.
I've had this story in a stack, and I want to bring it to your attention.
Mrs. Clinton, the Nevada caucuses are approaching on January 19th.
She reflected upon her defeat in Iowa in the Hawkeye Calcai.
And she suggested that caucuses cause a disenfranchisement of voters.
And uh the ABC is here theorizing that she's trying to lower expectations for her campaign.
She said, Yeah, you have a limited time uh on one day to have your voice heard.
That's troubling to me.
You know, in a situation of a caucus people who work during that time, they're disenfranchised.
People who can't be in the state, who are in the military.
They can't be present, they're disenfranchised.
Uh she didn't admit to any frustration about the 60,000 member culinary workers' recent endorsement of Obama, but now there's two things.
She's either trying to lower expectations, or she's trying to get a bunch of people to skip out of work and come back to the state and go to the caucus.
Uh one of the two.
Steve in Middleburg, uh, Virginia.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, wow, Rush.
Three calls, you act like it's your show.
Thank you.
Anyway, happy Friday to you today and uh happy birthday tomorrow.
Appreciate that, sir.
Thanks.
In any case, uh, I I wanted to let you know that uh last week I participated in Man on the Street with ABC News.
I was in DC, and it was about the economy generally.
And um, she asked me about the news babe, asked me about flatline economic news.
That was her words.
Her connotation, I believe.
And um she I reminded her that economies are generally cyclical, not linear, with a natural rise and fall.
And she seemed uh visibly annoyed when I said that.
So she pressed me on several other issues, you know, mortgage uh prior mortgages, gas prices, unemployment.
And without knowing that I was a grad student of EIB Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, excuse me.
And uh so I took them one at a time, and I brought to attention that the you know the mortgage crisis seemed to be brought on by predatory and unscrupulous lenders, teaming up with people submitting fraudulent loan applications, and the worst part about these people is they now expect the taxpayers to pay for their foolishness and fraud and pick up their casino tab, and that it's not my fault of Bush's that somebody making 30K bought a $500,000 house.
And then on gas prices, uh she asked me about that, and I I said if there's so much concern about gas prices, why are SUVs flying out of showrooms?
And how come Honda Insights get 70 miles per gallon aren't selling on hotcakes?
And I suggested the logical solution, of course, drill and war and everywhere else, build more refineries and nuclear plants until Al Gore.
Well, let me guess.
You're calling to tell us this because they didn't use any of what you said.
I doubt it, but you know, I told her until Al Gore invents uh, you know, a car that you can stick a garden hose into and drive it away.
That's what we needed to do.
And I asked her who was blocking all this from happening, and and she said with a straight face, I don't know.
And I told her that, you know, it's not my fault or Bush's fault, that some people buy more car or bust them they can afford to fill up the gas.
And then unemployment, I I said that when Clinton had similar numbers, that you know they carried him around their shoulders and gave him gold stars, and then I ended up by saying that these problems can be solved if we stop electing liberals and Democrats to responsible positions in government, and that you could really tell when the economy was in trouble was when when women stopped buying cosmetics.
I looked at her real close when I said that, and then she uh, you know, and then I think that's when she hit the erase button.
Yeah, I guarantee, even if you had a prayer of having some of your words used on their man on the street report, that cosmetics comment aced you out.
But my guess is you're describing this woman like she was perplexed totally by what you were saying.
Something like that.
Is that what you said?
She just looked at me like a social disease.
Just her body language, her facial expressions, everything.
I was saying nothing that she wanted to hear.
That's what I could tell.
It wasn't only that you were saying things she didn't want to hear.
You were saying things that didn't compute.
You know, most most drive-by media people have very narrow visions.
And they it's just like all of liberalism.
They've got this little cocoon in which they've woven, which they've woven in which they live, and and and to set up this security blanket for themselves, and anything that's at odds with it doesn't permeate.
It just it's it's it's like you were you were speaking a foreign language to her.
Economy's good.
Economy's good.
It's your people's own fault for the why, why you I'm sure she thought you were the biggest blithering idiot on the face of the earth, even though your IQ is probably three times as high as hers.
I've been told, but anyway, that's my birthday present to you.
I appreciate it.
Well, thank uh that's really that's a that's a fabulous story, and I uh I uh I appreciate it.
Also, this subprime thing.
You know uh who's responsible for this?
You know, I mean you can say that it is people who took out loans knowing they couldn't afford them if the ARM went up.
You can say it's predatory lenders, but who made the lenders predatory?
Congress.
The American dream, Mr. Limbaugh, we must have equality.
And if some people can't have homes in this country, it's not fair.
If only the Riff can have homes.
So we need people, we need to stop the process uh of redlining Mr. Limbaugh.
The skimming So Congress makes these financial institutions go out, lend money to people that can't afford it, uh if certain economic circumstances occur in voila, and now it's bailout time.
You knew, you knew it was uh it was gonna happen.
I get people, I just checked email to break.
People do not believe me when I say I'm just gonna sit home and watch football on my birthday.
Folks, I've told you I don't have any birthdays are not a big deal to me.
There's no big achievement.
I'm working on it, and it's it's embarrassing to have attention call to me on a birthday.
There's no achievement there.
It's living a year longer, yep, yep.
Uh could say it was you know a marginal achievement if I still live in New York.
But it's uh Well, but no, I it is a great birth, but they people just can't believe that that I'm just gonna sit at home and watch football.
You have to understand.
I I had three different friends saying, well, you put together a group of people you like, well, it's a big party.
No, no, no, no, no.
I want to spend my birthday with my favorite person, me.
And I want to watch football.
It's the greatest football weekend of the year, second greatest following.
You realize how many people would love to be coming over to my house to watch football.
Well, I'm not gonna do it, because it'll become a party, it'll be a distraction.
Oh, I may be I am a good guy to watch football because I watch the game.
And I explain the game if people don't understand it because I'm I'm I'm not gonna sit there and have can we go do something else?
I don't understand this.
Men too.
Just depends on who shows up.
So that's no nobody's gonna show up.
Doors gonna be locked.
Front gate's not gonna be answered.
Oh yeah, predictions.
Let's do some predictions for the wild uh for the uh for the uh this is the semifinals, the division rounds.
Uh see if I got these point spreads off the top of my head correct.
We've got the Packers hosting the Sea Hag, Seahawks uh in Green Bay, 3.30 Central Time tomorrow if you'll be 26 degrees with temperatures falling.
The Seahawks kicker is going to wear heated pants underneath the football pants, heated underwear, little hand warmers in there.
Uh because kickers don't get much activity, got to run around on the sidelines, practice kicks.
Uh I think what is it, eight points?
Seahawks getting eight.
That's that is tough.
Uh I don't know if the Packers can beat the Seahawks by eight points.
The Packers are not playing well in cold and climate weather.
Uh So I and that I take the Seahawks plus the eight.
Tomorrow night, the uh the Jacksonville Jaguars into New England for the Patriots.
The uh Jaguars are getting 13 and a half points, folks.
All this, you know, the conventional wisdom with the sports media is you know, it it's it's sort of like the way they cover politics.
If Thompson doesn't win here, he's finished.
If Romney doesn't do well in Michigan, he's done.
If Romney doesn't win in New Hampshire, he's done.
If Romney didn't win in Iowa, he's done.
If uh Giuliani can't get this momentum going, he's done.
The for the past four weeks, the regular season, the drive-by sports media has been saying first it was the Steelers.
They had the best chance of beating the Patriots.
And a couple other teams.
Now it's the Jacksonville Jaguars who have the best chance of beating the Patriots.
And I understand why people say this.
Jacksonville getting three and a thirteen and a half points.
But here's the deal, folks.
You do not bet against Bill Belichick when he has two weeks to prepare for essentially a wild card team.
You just don't.
But Rush, but Rush, he hasn't known that he was going to play the Jaguars until last Saturday.
No, he had the Steelers had faced the Patriots and the Chargers have faced the Patriots.
And those were the other two teams that might end up playing the Patriots.
They had not faced the Jaguars.
Belichick spent most of his time in the off week studying the Jaguars because he only had a file on the Pittsburgh Steelers and the San Diego Chargers.
They're ready for the for the uh for the Jaguars.
Now, the the reason I'm tempted to take 13 and a half points here is because they've got a running attack.
The the uh Patriots have been vulnerable on the on the ground this year on the defensive side.
And the the conventional wisdom here, their linebacking core is getting a little aged, wears down toward the end of the game.
That one of the reasons the Patriots have been running up the score is to protect themselves against defensive fatigue, age, and breakdown in later stages of the game.
Again, more conventional wisdom.
I wouldn't get rid of anybody they've got on that defensive side of the ball.
Bruce, Junior Seao, uh Rodney Harrison.
Uh but regardless, if uh they do have a powerful running attack, the Jags do, and if they can control the time of possession enough, I mean the way to keep the Patriots from scoring a lot of points, keep them off field.
Uh but the Jaguars have been up there before.
Not uh they played the Jaguars two years ago down in Jacksonville.
Jaguars have been up there in a playoff game before in the snow.
It got creamed.
They got wiped a different team, obviously, but but uh you just you don't bet against the Patriots when when Belichick has two weeks to prepare.
I'm tempted to take 13 and a half points.
On Sunday, we have uh who we got we got the Giants and Cowboys.
Yeah, Dallas and but before who's the other game?
Uh oh, the Chargers, San Diego and Colts, and this is another nine-point game.
This is the Chargers are getting nine points.
Take the Colts, lay the nine.
Uh no questions asked.
Giants, Cowboys take the Giants plus seven and a half.
I think they'll cover, uh, and this is gonna be a much closer game than that a lot of people think.
The Giants, Eli Manning standing a little taller, they're coming in with a lot of confidence.
Uh T.O., they'll do something with the high ankle sprain, at least get him on the field.
It'll be a distraction, double team.
But that's gonna be a good game.
But I'd take the seven and a half points uh in uh in that one.
Cowboys probably win, but I I think the Giants are cover.
Quick timeout back after this.
And by the way, on the football games, and Mr. Snurdley, this is few, because in a point spreads don't interest you, but if you uh if you just want to pick straight up, winners and losers this weekend, because you've got you got the two top seeds going with all the home field advantage head by weeks, the home team wins over seventy-five percent of these four games.
Home team wins 75%.
Forget the spread, just straight up.
So if if you if you want to play the game just straight up, if you can find somebody to let you play it straight up, uh then keep that stat in mind.
Uh, Nick and Tallahassee, nice to have you, sir on open line Friday.
Yes, sir.
How are you doing today?
Just had um some questions and just a thought or wanted to know your thoughts on some stuff.
Um Bobby Bowden being the most winning as coach in college football and everything.
I was just wondering what your thoughts were on him and whether he should retire or whether he should try to stick it out and hopefully turn this program around.
I think I think I played golf with Bobby Bowden once uh uh down here in Florida uh prior to a booster's dinner.
This was in the spring, uh after spring practice.
Uh and he was it's been about five or six years ago.
It was over in Naples, I think, Fort Myers Summer.
He was just feisty as he could be.
Uh it was it was a blast to be around.
He was actually pretty good golfer.
You know, he is the face of that team.
And I think, you know, if if if uh if they hadn't designated uh who is the offensive coordinator, the defense coordinator to be the head coach when he retires.
Jimbo Fisher.
Jimbo Fisher.
What what is he, defense or offensive coordinator?
He's offensive coordinator.
Okay.
If if they hadn't done that, you it'd have been a problem.
Um recruiting and all, but but now they can go recruit guys out of high school and say, there's continuity here.
Jimbo Fisher gonna take over, and Jimbo Fisher, by the way, rejected opportunities to go somewhere else.
He's established his loyalty.
So, you know, Bobby Bowden is a face of that franchise or face of that program, and and uh he's entrenched.
And they're gonna have to kick him out of there just like uh he's gonna have to kick himself out of there, it's like Joe Paterno in uh at Penn State.
So no, I I uh I have all of all the respect in the world for for Bobby Bowden.
Now I don't know him that well, and I I'm uh I don't really follow college football that closely till we get to the end of the season, because I didn't go to college, you know, so I don't have the rah-rah alma mater spirit.
Plus, college football teams don't wear socks, I think it look like amateurs.
So I just I just uh it's tough for me to get into it.
Uh uh but I've having met Bowden and uh the the overall success of that program is uh is such look at the number of people, the number of players they put in the National Football League that end up playing well being stars.
That's uh there's something to be said for it.
Uh and I I uh I wish him the best.
I I really enjoyed gotten to meet him.
I think his his kids, his sons.
I've never met them, but they seem to be really good guys too.
Uh ultimate plus for the program from an outsider looking in like me with no intimate inside knowledge.
Bud in uh in Red Wing, Minnesota.
Thanks for waiting and welcome.
Thank you very much, sir.
Nice to speak with you.
Uh happy birthday, by the way.
Thank you very much.
Um I just wanted to call and talk to you because uh just before you went on uh vacation at the Christmas holiday.
Uh you had done this brilliant monologue.
Uh, in response to comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Oh, yes.
And I was I was highly impressed with that.
I mean, uh you're always impressive, but I mean this was uh so insightful.
Well, I appreciate this this is a guy uh th this the the Dr. William Rowan, the Archbishop of Canterbury, uh typical, you know, liberal priest, was disparaging everyone.
Well, you know, st the the star Bethlehem didn't stand still.
Stars don't do that.
He would do everything he could to say don't believe in biblical miracles.
Don't believe he went even in so far as to get close to the resurrection, saying, Well, you gotta, you know, you you can still be a Christian and have doubts about the rest.
No, you can't.
The resurrection is the key.
Christianity is all about Christianity.
If that didn't happen, then none of it happened, and none of it and for a for a for an uh uh an archbishop, the archer of Canterbury to come out and try to water it down like that.
He can have whatever religion he wants.
I remember what I said.
He can have whatever religion he wants, whatever you know, faithful belief he Don't call it Christianity.
Absolutely.
It's just another one of these liberals trying to tear down institutions and traditions that people find uh comfort in.
They use his anchors.
Uh it it burned me up.
I'll I'll never for especially on the verge here of uh of Christmas.
Why, Bob uh Bud, I appreciate that.
That's very nice of you to have uh remembered since before the holidays to call and tell me that.
Uh final time out of the day, and we'll be back and wrap it up here in just a second.
Thanks to everybody for the uh the birthday greetings, the happy birthday wishes, and uh you know, I I really do uh appreciate it.
I'm just surprised people remember it because I don't ever talk about it.
What it's much appreciated.
I hope you have a great weekend.
Be back here Monday, all revved up to clean up the mess made by the drive-bys the next two days.
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