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Back to the audio soundvice, just a couple.
This is from the debate last night.
Uh Anderson Cooper of CNN said to Governor Huckabee, Governor Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh says if you or Senator McCain were nominated would be the nominee, you would destroy the Republican Party.
Your reaction?
You know, I wish Rush loved me as much as I loved Rush.
I think he's a great voice for conservativism.
It doesn't mean he's inerrant or infallible.
And on this he's very wrong.
One of the things that Rush Limbaugh once praised me for was creating what I call the no uh the tax me more fund.
And the way that worked was that we had a lot of people in our legislature wanted us to raise taxes.
And I said, we don't need to raise taxes, we need to cut our spending.
You'd already done that.
And so I created a fund called the Tax Me More Fund.
I said there's nothing in the law that says that you can't just pay more if you want to.
And I had envelopes printed, and I said, anybody who wants to pay more taxes, just fill it up with whatever will make you feel better and send it right in.
And it proved that a whole lot of people didn't really want to pay more taxes after all, because after about a year and a half, there was only about twelve hundred dollars in the account, a thousand of which had been given by a liberal legislator.
Already raised the case.
So if we're going to talk about conservativism, I'd like to be in on the discussion.
All right.
Now uh again, let me let me stress here.
I love Governor Huckabee's man.
I think he's funny.
I think he's an engaging, charismatic figure uh and personality.
Uh I have I have no personal animus toward uh toward any of these guys.
Uh and I, you know, they've accomplished a lot, they've achieved a lot.
You know, running for president's not an easy thing to do, it's very hard.
Uh but I do think that Governor Huckabee has to know that he he's not going to win this, but he's going to stay in.
And the reason he's staying in is because I think there's a little tag team going on between him and McCain to freeze votes away from Mitt Romney, which is fine.
Look at I'm I'm I know a lot of people are saying to Huckabee, get out of this.
You know you're you're gumming up the work.
I know.
I'm not gonna tell these people what to do in that regard.
He's free to stay in, thinks he has a chance here.
But if he really doesn't want Romney to win, if he's uh if he sided with McCain and wants McCain to win, and this is his way of helping, then fine and dandy.
Just put it out there for you to see.
For you to process, and for you to make a judgment on, and so forth.
I think the question would have better been asked of uh Senator McCain, frankly, but that's just me.
And I wasn't uh moderating the debate.
Now, CNN alive after the debate, and to Reagan Library, uh for those of you in Rio Linda, Anderson Cooper spoke with Bill Bennett about me.
Uh Cooper said the need now for all these candidates, but for McCain in particular, try to reach out to uh cooperatives, and in particular I guess conservatives, uh conservative radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh.
He does again have to respond to these serious claims about that he is too far to the left on things like immigration, on campaign finance reform, on Anwar, on Guantanamo.
There's a long list.
Now, John McCain, if he gets on his high horse and says, Well, you all know who I am, and I've done a lot, he's gonna be in trouble.
That's uh so i here's uh uh Bill Bennett essentially backing up what Scarborough said uh that there isn't a you know a Republican establishment candidate, meaning the old blue-blooded old boys network, country club or guys, uh that's not enough to put them over the top.
They're gonna need conservative support in the um in the general election, or they don't have a prayer.
And this the McCain camp knows this, and at some point after they think they've got the nomination secured, there probably will be tentacles of reach out that uh uh find their way into certain places.
I don't expect to see one of those tentacles.
Uh I know HR will well, I mean you'll get it if it happens, and then you'll tell me.
And when it happens, we'll deal with it.
I uh Too much left to be determined.
Now there's other stuff in the news, folks, and I want to get to it because it's an incredible stack of stuff out here.
And I want to start by getting to some of the Clinton stuff, because Bill Clinton said was in Denver, Colorado.
He's out there stumping for his wife, who says laughably that she can control him.
This is uh is the website.
This is the ABC News blog, and this is the way they write this.
In a long and interesting speech, Clinton characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way.
He said, Yeah, I'll tell you what we need to do out there, we just need to slow down our economy.
Cut back our greenhouse gas emissions because we have to save the planet for our grandkids.
So we got to slow down our economy.
Well, then we can't have a stimulus package, folks.
It means a government can't grow if we're we we gotta slow down the econom.
Folks, do you understand this?
This is precisely what Gore and his crowd want to do.
Destroy the economy, slow it down, put government in charge of more and more people's lives and freedom.
We just have to slow down our economy.
The simple fact of you go and look around the world, as I have done, and you will find that the slow economies, or the non-existent economies, the true poverty-ridden countries on this planet are the filthiest, the dirtiest, the most polluting cesspool places that you'll ever run into on the planet.
And yet they try to make our country out as the culprit.
Jack Hollander is written a uh uh a book.
Uh let's see, it's called a real environmental crisis.
Why poverty, not affluence, is the environment's number one enemy.
Drawing a completely new roadmap toward a sustainable future, Jack Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global poverty.
His uh balanced, authoritative and lucid book challenges widely held beliefs that economic development and affluence pose a major threat to the world's environment and resources.
Of course, without even giving any details and having to read it, he's exactly right.
Common sense would tell us this.
The attack on all the industrialized nations, including us, at the top of the list ought to be the biggest giveaway as to what's really at stake here.
Uh Hollander points to the uh the great strides that have been made toward improving and protecting the environment in the affluent democracies.
He makes the case that the essential prerequisite for sustainability is a global transition from poverty to affluence, coupled with a transition to freedom and democracy.
The real environmental crisis is the title of the book.
It takes a close look at the major environment and resource issues, population growth, climate change, agriculture and food supply, fisheries, forests, fossil fuels, water and air quality, uh, solar and nuclear power.
In each case, Hollander finds compelling evidence that economic development and technological advances can relieve such problems as food shortages, deforestation, air pollution, and land degradation, and provide clean water, adequate energy supplies, and improved public health.
Book also tackles issues such as global warming, genetically modified foods, automobile and transportation technologies, and so forth and so on, the significance of the Endangered Species Act, which Hollander asserts never would have been legislated in a poor country whose citizens struggle just to survive.
So whereas in this country, if the bald eagle is protected, in a poor country where it's not, you go out and capture whatever you can to eat it because it's all you can do because you can't, you know, you don't have refrigeration, you don't have transportation, you don't have it's catch, it's still catch what you eat and eat it tonight.
And whatever you can catch, you eat.
He asks us to look beyond the media's doomsday rhetoric about the state of the environment, because most of it's simply not true, and to commit much more of our resources were to do the most good, lifting the world's population out of poverty.
Amen.
Spread capitalism around.
And so here's Der Schlieckmeister running around in Denver.
Yeah, the only way we're gonna save a planet for greenhouse gases and global warming is we gotta we gotta slow down our economy.
Who in their right mind ever talks about look at the panic this country goes into when you tell them we're headed to a recession?
And here's here's Clinton out there basically, yeah, we gotta slow it down, we gotta you know, maybe not a full-fledged ref recession out there, Limbaugh, but at least at least slow it down.
Some it's absurd.
Padily absurd.
Speaking of all this, this is from uh from Oz, Australia, the Australian newspaper.
Major Australian greenhouse gas emitters believe that emissions trading costs of about $65 a ton of carbon are inevitable, forcing household electricity bills to rise by almost 100%.
So uh how how are the poor going to pay for heat when it doubles in the aim of saving the planet?
The new director of the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, Mike Hitchens told a newspaper that business should look to evolving carbon markets in Europe to estimate the future cost of emissions trading.
We all need to understand that linking to other emissions trading schemes outside of Australia is inevitable, whether done formally or informally, and that means that it's the world price of permits that we need to incorporate into analysis about the impacts on the Australian economy.
The price of emissions in Australia will very likely be set in Europe.
Australia is a price taker for commodities in all other global markets, will be a price taker in this global market as well.
The European Commission has estimated a future price of about $65 per ton of carbon, with the European banks predicting a price of between 60 and 80.
Do you know what?
Do you understand what these trading?
I first heard about these back in the early 90s.
And I when I first heard about them, I started laughing myself silly, and I got an email, a warning email from my good friend Professor Hazlitt, who I've referenced several times in this program.
He said, look, Rush, trading pollution credits, they're now called carbon credits, but trading pollution credits makes all kinds of sense.
They say you have company A, you've got pollution levels that the EPA or the government or some other wonderful, lovely agency sets, and company A is way above those limits.
But company B out there is way below those limits.
So Company A can buy the credits, the remaining pollution not being created by Company B, and that will allow them to continue to pollute above the levels, as long as Company B stays below them.
And that's what this whole carbon trading scheme, offset scheme is.
I'll go ahead and reduce his carbon footprint at all in this giant mansion down there in Nashville.
But what does he do?
Well, he he invests in a company he owns.
So he takes money out of one pocket, puts it in another, and what do they do?
They went and plant trees.
They say they plant the trees.
The trees are supposed to soak up all this extra carbon.
But I thought trees soaked up oxygen.
Carbon, I'm sorry, then they produce the oxygen, which people have said just compounds the problem.
But anyway, it's it's a it's a total scheme.
So now the what's happening here in Australia is that the cost of these carbon credits or pollution credits being set on the world market, not on the uh uh market circumstances in Australia.
And so for these for these people in Australia to continue to produce the power they need to satisfy the population, they're gonna have to go buy some carbon credit somewhere in Europe at the whatever the price is $65 a ton, which means the power companies in Australia are going to add what they have to buy in Europe, which is permission to pollute, and they're gonna add it to the bills.
So, in the process of supposedly reducing the carbon footprint of the world, the customers are gonna have their electricity bills doubled.
Do you see the scheme here?
And and well, but rush, the whole point here is to get people to use less.
Don't give me that.
Countries like Australia and us, conservation's a wonderful thing, but it's not the answer, and it's not growth.
And by the way, the next story in all of this, get this.
This is Reuters.
Listen to this, HR.
Congress urged to help more people pay their heating bills.
Home heating oil dealers.
Home heating oil dealers.
Corporations urged Congress to put extra money in the U.S. economic stimulus package to fully fund a program that helps poor families pay their expensive winter heating bills.
The New England Fuel Institute and the Petroleum Marketers Association of America asked lawmakers to back a proposal to add $3.6 billion to the low-income home energy assistance program, Lie Heap, as part of the stimulus package that will send rebates to taxpayers to spur the economy.
No one should have to choose between putting food on the table or staying warm.
Of course not.
And nobody should have to choose between dog food and medicine.
And nobody should have to choose between medicine and food.
Nobody should have to choose between a flat-screen high definition TV and unemployment on the Super Bowl weekend.
So just that headline.
More whining.
Checks aren't going to be out until this spring, you people, sometimes not till August.
But the whole concept, Congress should help pay PD wine and heating.
You know it's going to go up every year.
You live where you live.
And notice the heating oil providers and I said, you know what, we'll bite the bullet this winter.
We think people ought to be warm.
You know, we're going to lower our prices.
We'll lower our profit.
No, no, no, no.
Of course, why should they?
No, they want you and me to pay their price so people in the Northeast won't freeze to death.
And by the way, I mean, February, March.
I guess there's some cold months left, but with global warming, it ain't that bad.
Okay, other items in the stack of stuff here not having to do with uh the election, the presidential election.
Um I mentioned this yesterday.
It it looks, ladies and gentlemen, that the uh the tax package passed by uh Democrat-controlled Congress, this stimulus package, will include refund or rebate checks to illegal aliens.
Uh, John Ensign, the senator from uh Nevada, uh, is going to introduce an amendment in the Senate to see that this doesn't happen, but it's in there.
It's in the House version, the Senate wants to put it in there.
Uh, and if you ask me, you know, this this is just another in in a in a long line of backdoor attempts, behind the curtain attempts for Congress to get the amnesty they so want.
Let me ask a question.
If illegals have records from the IRS, in other words, you've you you've got they gotta know who you are.
Somebody has to know who you are.
I mean, even people that don't pay income taxes do pay payroll taxes.
Then you've got to file a tax return even if you don't earn anything.
You have to do that.
Now, if the IRS can find these people, these illegals to give them the rebate, what more do they need to be considered legal?
I'm very suspicious of this.
See, this is one of these things that is not what it appears to be.
This compassion, oh, Russia are here, they're working hard, we're gonna stimulate the economy.
Don't you if you think our friends in Washington have given up on the idea of amnesty for these elite, you have another thing coming.
The Reverend Jacks criticize Major League Baseball today for sending investigators to the hometowns of umpires to ask uh neighbors questions that include whether the umpire belongs to the Ku Klux Klan.
Have you heard about this?
Major League Baseball sending investigators to the homes of the towns where umpires live, and they're going to the neighbors to ask them all kinds of personal questions, including did you ever or are you a member of the Klan?
The Reverend Jackson, uh, in an amazing act of triangulation said, Major League Baseball's done a disservice to his progressive social history by equating Southern whites with white supremacists.
I'm surprised the professional league, which helped chain social attitudes in all sports leagues about segregation by championing Jackie Robbins who would make Such a destructive move.
In other words, the Reverend Jackson is opposed to finding out whether any Major League Baseball umpires are members of the Klan.
But where did this come from in the first place?
What in the hell inspired this?
Alright, so I asked right before the commercial break, what the hell would inspire Major League Baseball to send investigators into the towns where umpires live and start asking neighbors.
The ump member at a clan.
So the EIB memory division went into gear during the break.
I remembered there was a story out there some time ago about some some some uh statisticians, Daniel Hammermesh, you uh uh professor of economics University of Texas did a survey, did an actual study and concluded that umpires might be racists, that black umps favor black pitchers when it comes to calling balls and strikes, that white umps favor white pitchers when it calls comes to calling balls and strikes.
I remember when this came out, it was Time Magazine, August 13th of last year.
And the story written here by Kathy Rooney.
So that okay, and then Major League Baseball stepped up background checks of its umpires last uh last August when that big cheating scandal uh hit the NBA, that ref, Tim Donahy for betting on games.
Uh but that still doesn't explain why in the world you're sending investigators in to ask people if your umps are members of the clan.
I mean, I I'm asking if they're members of any groups, but they're including the clan.
Look at, you know, that that just the whole the whole the whole notion here, but I mean, you st if you're gonna ask that specifically, I know they're asking if you've got any members of groups, but they say including the Klan.
Do they know something here?
Oh, don't give me this cover all the basis stuff.
Uh are you a member of the NRA?
You listen to the EIB network.
Do you think Senator McCain is a conservative?
I mean, where were these uh these questions stop anyway?
Um, the Reverend Jackson's against this.
That's the one of the fun.
Reverend Jackson's against this.
He thinks baseball's done a great job desegregating.
Uh, so forth.
Um, a couple other headlines.
Oh, and folks, by the way, programming note, I will not be here tomorrow.
Um I've got I cannot avoid tomorrow, and it happens when the program is on.
We have Jason Lewis coming in here.
But I will be back on Monday.
Don't panic, plenty of time on Monday to, you know, continue our discussion.
Jason can handle this tomorrow with what's coming up on February 5th and the uh Super Duper Tuesday.
But because of that, like the Hutch, just sent me a note, said enough politics.
It says talk Super Bowl.
I just got an instant message from Brian.
Are you gonna talk Super Bowl since you're not gonna be here tomorrow?
I guess we should.
I sent Hutch a note back.
I said, call in if you want to talk about the Super Bowl.
He told me in his email, he was picking the Giants.
He wants the Giants.
I said, call in.
So Snurley keep a sharp eye.
I don't know how often he checks his email, but he's got the call-in number because he got it right now.
So uh he might call you.
In the meantime, immigrants hit hard by U.S. slowdown and subprime crisis.
Yesterday it was animals.
You know, the pets, the dogs and cats.
As uh economic slowdown and a subprime mortgage crisis deepen across the country, Hispanic immigrants are increasingly in danger of losing their jobs and their homes.
Fine, we're all miserable, we're all paycheck away.
That's why they're being included in the stimulus bill.
I have three stories here.
Speaking of the Super Bowl, three stories warning of how you can die watching it.
Super Bowl could be heart health hazard.
This is from the AP.
For rabid fans of the Giants and the Patriots, Super Bowl won't just be a game.
It may be a health hazard.
Heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies doubled in Munich when that nation's soccer team played in World Cup matches according to a news study.
While history suggests European soccer fans to get a bit more worked up than the average American football Fan doctors think there are some valid warnings to be shared.
And the rest of the story is you know, don't drink this, don't eat that, uh, try to keep your temper in control, your emotions in check.
Oh, yeah, don't beat your wife Abbott.
Phony story that the nags put out that wife beating triples on a Super Bowl because angry husbands and her team loses or screw up, take it out on a wife.
Turned out to be totally bogus.
But anyway, that's just story one.
Number two, sports is a strain on fans' hearts.
Uh LA Times by Gia Rui Chong.
Talk about heart stopping games, studying medical records and tooth.
Oh, it's just a repeat of this German business.
Uh but uh it says after you're done beating your wife, the study says you may have a heart attack during the Super Bowl.
People with heart disease are at greater risk.
Uh and then, let's see, what's the third story here?
Oh, yes.
Uh from Jeremy Manier, uh Chicago Tribune.
Don't be a Super Bowl statistic.
Stress of watching the big big game can be hazardous to heart.
So one study.
One study from some people in Munich has created a wave of drive-by stories about how you can die watching the Super Bowl, and there are tips in here to avoid death while you are watching the Super Bowl.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is an indication of just how helpless they think you are.
Watching the Super Bowl is now health risk.
Can kill you.
This is what you can do if you have access to a fax machine and you have the numbers of all the newsrooms of the drive-by media.
You can create a literal panic over the fact that you might die watching the Super Bowl.
Bob and Bebron's uh great to have you with us, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey Rush, how are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Good.
Uh you know, uh I originally started, and I I want to uh go immediately back to it.
I I wanted to uh make some comments about Rudy and Rudy last night.
Uh I I uh you watched the same press conferences I did or the uh the announcement by Schwarzenegger, his uh his promo you know, his uh backing McCain.
Yeah, I saw that.
Uh I I was just curious, though, and maybe maybe I'm just dreaming here.
Do you think there is a ghost of a chance that come nomination time and you know, if McCain does go this far, uh that Rudy might be his vice presidential candidate?
Uh, you know, I haven't even thought about who McCain's vice presidential candidate would be.
David Broder, however, big liberal writer for the Washington Post is advising us to choose Huckabee.
Okay.
Because he's a conservative uh and would essentially be president in waiting.
Right.
Uh let's see.
I I you know, I was just taken with their their closeness over the last two days, and I thought, hmm, I wonder if there is a ghost of a chance, of course.
Well, it could be a good thing.
Rudy will go back to his own.
It's not gonna be Lindsay Graham.
It's not, it's not now he doesn't need South Carolina.
It's not gonna be Lindsey Graham.
Mm-hmm.
No.
Yeah.
Look at me be wrong.
I don't know.
I mean, Lindsay Graham certainly close enough to her to die of anal poisoning.
Um, you talk about Rudy, it might be Rudy, because Rudy's Rudy's out there uh could maybe theoretically bring the Northeast, bring bring New York.
Yeah, I'm wondering.
Uh but then you gotta get you gotta figure this out, you gotta go to McCain's temperament.
And is McCain going to want to choose anybody people might like better than him?
Uh is McCain going to choose anybody who might bring more to the table on some things than McCain does.
I don't know.
I uh I haven't gotten down to that road yet.
I would think McCain might choose if this rift continue, might try to buy uh recalcitrant conservatives off by asking some conservative to be the vice president.
Which might give some people pause to consider.
Using Broder's line.
Ah, Broder said this.
I didn't.
I'm just repeating it.
President in waiting.
And what is that?
Why is that relevant?
Well, you go back to Anna Quindlin yesterday.
I didn't say this.
She did.
Newsweek magazine.
When is too old old?
Or when is old too old?
There are subtle hits here that McCain is an arc is he's archaic.
And so forth.
So that's uh down the point.
I can tell that you are very emotional about Rudy getting out.
Um and you would be desperate for Rudy to get back in here.
You know, he could be attorney general.
Uh he could be, you never know.
I mean, if there's going to be some payback here if McCain goes all the way.
Uh and Schwarzenegger can't do any.
Well, he can't he can't do VEEP.
Um, he could become Secretary of Solar Power, I guess.
Well, no, I love Fox.
I mean, Super Bowl is on the Fox broadcast network, which is all fine and dildy, but they're not the best high definition out there.
They're 720 P, 720 progressive, 720 lines.
Uh CBS and NBC are 1080 I 1080p is the absolute top.
Well, you can double that, but there aren't TVs yet they can produce it.
But if you're watching, let's say on a 30-inch or you know, 40-inch TV, you probably won't notice, and I guarantee you your wife or girlfriend won't.
All they won't care about is the thing come on.
You know, we hit the power switches and come on.
High-tech picture quality, super duper projectors.
You know, women don't care about that.
Uh yeah, they have a black eye anyway, because people can beat their wives in a Super Bowl Sunday.
But when you blow the picture up, you got the Hutch.
When you blow the picture up, like when I put a high definition when I watch Super Bowl in my media room, I got a 16-foot screen in there.
I can tell the difference between 720 and 1080.
It's a huge difference.
But you can't on a smaller screen, it's not that that's not that big a deal.
And that's so, you know, Fox carrying a Super Bowl, yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
But it ain't the best.
And uh by the way, who else?
Fox is 720, and who else is 720?
ABC is ABC 70.
When are these people gonna get up to 10?
Oh, ESPN 720.
When are these people gonna move up to 1080?
That's what I ask as a consumer.
We got the Hutch.
Hutch from Seattle, nice to have you, sir.
The uh Super Bowl coming up on Friday.
You said enough politics in the emails.
Enough politics, baby.
Let's get with the Super Bowl.
All right, now we got time constraints here.
I'm looking here, maybe maybe three or four minutes max.
That's enough.
Giants.
Thanks for the call, Hutch.
Why giant now I gotta ask you, we talked about this the last time during the uh the uh championship round.
Is is this objective or you got some emotion in this?
I got a lot of emotions.
W what what why the Giants?
What is it?
Why do you want to see the Giants win?
It isn't that I want to see the Giants win.
Well, then you've got emotion.
I just think they got it, man.
Have you seen their eyes?
It's something about that team, bruh.
Plus it's time for more history to be made.
It's nothing like stopping a perfect team in the Super Bowl.
Now that is that's history right there.
Do you think that's bigger history than the Patriots going 19-0?
Yep.
You know why?
Because the Giants have no pressure on them.
Everyone expects them to lose anyway.
What if they if they lose, big deal?
But man, look at all the pressure.
And look at week 17, Rush.
What happened in week 17?
The Giants almost beat them, and they believe now they can beat them.
Yeah, but you know it's been two weeks, Hutch.
You think you think Belichick's gonna show Eli Manning the same defensive look that he got on the 29th in week 17?
It's gotta be all kinds of tricks thrown at him.
Absolutely.
Do you think the Giants are gonna come with the same plan?
It's been two weeks, Russ.
Uh yeah, well, yeah, but I think the offense that the Giants have is a little bit more predictable what Belichick's defense is gonna be.
They didn't stop him and they didn't stop him in week 17.
Uh that's true, 3835.
I understand it was a three-point game.
And you got that's right, bro.
We got Plexiglas Burris, uh, sorry, Plexa Coboras.
Others saying 2717 says a Patriots only gonna score 17 points.
You know, I I'm what I'm afraid of is it may not be close.
So you better hold your breath.
Now you're really, you're really stepping up.
It may not even be.
You're you're you're you're on the verge here of saying a giants route?
Hey, Rush, I'm gonna tell you, if they get that rush on my boy, it uh it won't even be close.
Uh who what who's your boy this game?
Who are you talking about?
I'm talking about Tom Brady.
Oh, Brady, if they get the rush.
I'm going back to the same.
They gotta sack him three times to win.
Well, you know, Baltimore sacked him three times.
And they only have a bunch of ref botched referee calls and stupid timeouts by the Ravens defensive coordinator.
That's right.
Uh Hutch, you made this interesting.
Because you know, everybody does think that this is a slam dunk for the Patriots.
And even the Patriots are the most hated team in football right now.
Uh you know, quarterback takes the supermodel.
Everybody's jealous of that.
You know why I think they uh Tom's gonna lose.
Tell me.
I'm gonna tell you straightforward.
You know that uh Peyton Manning, Brett Farr, and Tom Brady went to see God.
And God asked Peyton Manning and said, What do you believe?
He said, I believe in family winning and going after everything you can when you got the opportunity.
Gosh, I lack that belief.
Take my take a seat on my left side.
He asked Brett Farrester, what do you believe?
He said, I believe in winning, going after everything, taking advantage of family.
He said, Man, I really lack that belief.
Sit on my right side.
He asked Tom Brady, I said, What do you believe?
Tom Brady says, I believe you're in my seat.
Tom Brady says, I believe you're in my seat.
So you think he's a big headed going into this game.
Yeah, I do.
Well, you had us to take this seriously because uh the Hutch played the game.
And the Hutch was with the Cowboys.
It was with the Chargers and the S and the and the uh Seabirds, and uh you were in playoffs.
Uh and uh plus your Mike linebacker.
I was still impressed by that.
I'm thank you, my brother.
I'm I'm impressed that uh you are impressed.
You're probably impressed.
I know what the Mike Linebacker even is.
Do you know what the strong and weak linebacker was called?
Uh no.
Sam linebacker and the Willie linebacker.
Sam and Willie, so Sam William Mike.
That's the three linebackers.
Yeah, but the Mike to Mike is key.
I mean, you gotta quarterback's gotta know where the mic linebackers, especially when you got four of them when there's a three-four defense, and because the mic linebacker is gonna be in a different place every every set.
Usually he's to the strong side.
Usually, but not always.
Not always, but he's usually to the strong side toward the tight end.
Yeah.
But see, that's where Belichick's gonna matter.
That's what Brady is is superb at spotting the mic.
At any rate, he is.
Um, all right, so a possible route of the New England Patriots because Tom Brady thinks he's God.
Do you think it's uh only you, the Hutch?
What about uh what about his ankle business uh with Brady?
Well, I think that he'll be ready.
He's got two weeks, and uh I don't think that's gonna be a fact at all.
They may try to use they may try to use that after they lose.
Yeah.
Now you know what this is.
And Hutch, you should know this.
This is something I'm happy to be able to tell you something, and you know you just didn't it just didn't occur to you.
This is all about getting out of the Pro Bowl with credibility.
It really is.
That's all it is.
It really is.
You wear the boot one day, going into your girlfriend's house, you're never seen in a boot yet again.
You limp at a big glob of tape on your ankle out there the first practice this week, and all of a sudden you're not even on the injury report.
It's the Pro Bowl.
Hutch.
The Pro Bowl, baby.
Gotta run.
We're out of time.
Great to talk to you.
We're gonna keep you in mind here on Monday when we review the results.
Nobody, nobody gives me respect.
Now I'm getting emailed from people saying, you know what you're talking about?