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Feb. 15, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 15, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, cutting edge societal evolution.
Here behind the golden EIB microphone on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
An hour to go, folks.
When we go to the phones, the program content is all yours.
We can talk about that you want to talk about.
Whether I care about it or not, I will fake it.
800-282-2882 email address rush or L Rushbo, sorry, email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
There's a there's a associated press story on this FISA business out there, but uh Congress has failed to re-up the FISA program.
Bush is gonna go ahead and go to Africa.
The uh the legislation passed on Tuesday in the Senate lapsed because the House didn't even take it up.
Recess started at noon today, or did I know if they actually have left yet, but it's like a week or 10-day recess.
Uh surveillance can continue against known terrorist groups, but any new groups that form, no surveillance, all you gotta do is agree, okay.
We are no longer Al-Qaeda.
We are Il Qaeda Incorporated, and you can't surveil us.
But the AP story, the headline is Bush says Congress putting U.S. in danger.
The headline should be Bush says Democrats putting U.S. in danger.
Because it's the Democrats in Congress who are holding it up.
It just I'm sorry, the bars, I'm sorry.
We're gonna put the bar there the bar.
Now the bars are down.
There we go.
Let me get that stuff off of there.
I'm sorry, Ditto Camers.
It's unintentional.
I really I really am sorry.
Thanks for reminding me about that, Ed.
Appreciate that.
Uh Northern Illinois University.
I am told, we've had what, seven people dead now?
Uh another another campus shooting.
I am told that this is another one of these wonderful utopian, marvelous little college campaign.
That is a gun-free zone.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
Gun free is the only way that we're going to get rid of guns and random feudings in America.
Really?
This guy.
Singing medication, he was off his medication or whatever.
This guy walks in there, starts mowing people down, has got time to reload.
Because there's nothing anybody can do to stop him.
Everybody's got to run away.
Everybody's got to take cover.
This is liberalism on parade.
I can't tell you the number of times I've had conversations with uh even Republican, liberal Republicans here in New York.
Uh and and they these liberal Republicans in New York love to single me out and poke, you know, put their finger right in my chest and say, why do you conservatives believe X?
These are Republicans I'm talking about.
Some of these guys served in the Nixon administration.
And the subject always came up, gun control.
Why are you you conservatives so opposed to gun control?
I said, I'd be happy to support gun control.
This is a one it was a Fifth Avenue apartment dinner party.
This is uh way back in uh mid-90s.
I said, if you if you can convince me that after taking guns out of the hands of law-abiding people, that you're also gonna go into Central Park and get the guns out of all the creeps hanging around in there, and everywhere else in this city, you get the guns out of the hand of criminals too, then we'll maybe can talk.
But you're never gonna be able to do that.
This is a this is another case in point where you have a gun-free gun-free zone, hate-free zone.
You go out and say you've got something, but you don't got it.
Just because you say it doesn't mean you got it.
Because all this whack and this wacko planned it.
He planned it and executed it.
And he knew that there wouldn't be anybody else in the time he had to do his damage that had a gun to fire back at him.
Well, what are we supposed to do, Mr. Limbaugh?
Every student will walk in with a gun.
No.
But you certainly don't disarm security people around the place.
You don't disarm perhaps the professor.
You got i if if if if you guys, you know, this this is gonna keep happening because you're gonna have, you know, there are demented people walking around In our society.
And who cares what motivates them and who cares that they're there?
You know, you can debate all day why, and you're not going to solve the problem.
Even if you if you diagnose somebody is schizophrenic or bipolar or whatever, you give them the medicine for that, they stop taking it.
Where are you?
And they freak out, they go get a gun and know full well nobody's going to be able to stop them with another gun until after.
I mean, they got to know the cops are going to show up at some point, but they can still wreak their havoc long before anybody shows up to stop them, and a number of people are bad in a gun-free zone.
This is this is like these stupid sanctuary cities that will announce, you know, no no we're not gonna have this in our city.
We're not gonna have that in our city.
It's all around them.
Uh this is just classic symbolic, feel-good liberalism that ends up putting people at risk because it fails to recognize that people are different.
And when it looks at either the demented or the sick, or the truly sane who are yet criminally oriented, they look at him as no different than anybody else.
If we just treat them differently, it's like Obama, the way he wants to go talk to some of the worst murdering thugs in the world, and just when the power of his presence and the power of his ability to say nothing, can turn these people into a bunch of lambs and say to Mr. Obama, you know what, Mr. President, you are right.
We are going to give up our evil ways.
We're going to give up our dictatorships.
We are going to give up our tyranny, and we're going to grant our people freedom just because you came and talked to us, or because you allowed us to come talk to you in the Oval Office.
By the way, President Obama, you better have an armed guards in your Oval Office when these guys come to see you.
Don't forget we let Yasser Arafat walk to the podium at the UN wearing a pistol.
Well, if we just show them that we mean them no harm, Mr. Limbaugh, then don't you think that alone will feel that they have no reason to hate us?
No, it'll show them what a bunch of weak, defeatable little SOBs we are.
You little pansy.
You run around just show them.
Show them we don't mean them any harm.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
You throw them the reason we're in such trouble in the world, Mr. Limbaugh, is because of our nuclear arsenal.
We're feeling the world retorteth from the poor, and we're polluting a planet, destroying it.
And if Senator Obama, he will make sure that we're not gonna do it anymore.
People around the world hate us, we'll have no more wreath that hateth.
Just like the gunman at Northern Illinois University, knew that nobody in there could do him any harm, and so he had no animus for them, right?
Liberalism is so stupid.
I don't understand why.
I just the only explanation for people not getting liberalism is that they do not think.
They feel, they hope, they want things to be different simply on the basis of their power of hope.
Here, here.
Susan Sarandon.
This was on uh the Tavas Smiley Show on PBS Monday night.
Smiley said, your candidate, John Edwards, now out of the race.
So what do you do now?
I'm gonna back Obama.
But I hope I think that he, as a symbol, has really excited people, and he's definitely confusing to everyone who really hates America for hating, you know, Muslims, because the name like Obama and a black man are probably gonna go, well, wait a minute, what?
It's kind of like you know, when you're out on the line for, you know, uh freedom to have an abortion and you're incredibly pregnant, they just can't quite figure out.
So I think he definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I I you know I can't wait to see what he stands for.
Did you hear that?
May I repeat this?
She said, I definitely, or he definitely has convinced people he stands for change and stands for hope.
I can't wait to see what he stands for.
She doesn't even know.
And she's for him.
She doesn't even know what he's for, other than change and hope.
And she's for him.
I think she'd probably been listening to Obama commercials on my program.
All right, have another soundbite here.
Uh very, very, very uncomfortable playing this soundbite, but it must be done.
Uh, Ladies and gentlemen, Stevie the Boy Wonder, a black cat, by the way, could cross my path anytime.
I love Stevie the Boy Wonder's music.
I just it is.
That uh songs in a Kia Life album.
Just why this so difficult to play this sound bite.
Um says last night, the NAA L C P Image Awards.
That's a National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People.
Stevie the Boy Wonder was awarded the Hall of Fame Award, the NAA L C P image Awards, and this is a portion of his acceptance speech.
There's a man named Barack Obama.
It shows you that there's no reason for you to have to be a gang member or do drugs or whatever that is.
And there's a woman, Hillary Clinton, who clearly should say to every single woman there's no need for abuse by any man to any woman in the world, and you can only you don't have to accept that.
I say to all of you without question, it is time for change, and we can not only change history, but we can help to determine everyone's destiny to the good.
I say to all of you, yes, we most definitely can.
Oh no, this is painful.
This is painful.
First place, you can't change history.
Because history is what was it has been.
What has been, has been.
What is is is.
What hasn't been, hasn't been.
History is so yesterday anyway.
Mrs. Clinton, I'm not I'm not gonna touch the Obama business on the drugs, Mrs. I'm not uh touch that.
But Hillary Clinton says to every single woman there is no need for abuse by any man to any woman in the world, and you don't have to accept it.
Clearly, uh what is maybe I'm wrong.
Would you, Mr. Creeley, you're you're you're a good objective guy, your broadcast engineer.
Would you say in terms of abuse that Mrs. Clinton has accepted it or not accepted it?
She's accepted it.
Yes, absolutely.
I mean, if Hillary Clinton has demonstrated anything, it is be abused and exact the price for it.
She has a totally accepted it.
She's marketed it.
She has used it.
She's Mr. Wonder.
I hate people being wrong.
I want to help them.
She's the most cheated on woman in the world.
And she knew it for how many years?
Twenty-five.
Even today, Mr. Wonder.
People joke about who President Clinton is dating.
while he's married to her.
Even today, Mr. Wonder, reporters ask Mrs. Clinton how she will deal with further scandals involving her husband.
That is a past that continues to exist in the right now and will exist in the future.
It will not change.
And she knows it and is accepting it.
And Chris Matthews, before threatened with being kneecapped, said that's the reason she's a candidate.
Because she was cheated on by her husband.
Gee, it's a man.
This has been painful.
This has been a painful sound.
Look at I was a struggling young disc jockey Back in the early days of my what was to become Sterling broadcast career playing Stevie Wonder Tunes.
Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours.
Suspicion.
This wounds me to the heart to have to do this.
But see, I don't shy away from the tough.
I could have seen this sound by like say, cookie.
Don't tell anybody you gave it to me, I'm not even going to use it.
Back to the phones.
It's Open Line Friday, South Jersey.
This is Rich.
Glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Little little little.
What?
Damn heart.
I'm hurt here.
I'm not going to get over it.
But this is a very painful thing I just did.
All right.
Here's my point.
Yeah.
I don't want people to forget about um tort reform.
Because um I think it really messed up the um medical industry because of the inflated settlements.
And I um, look what it's doing to the foreign surveillance program.
Exactly right.
That's exactly we talked about this in great detail yesterday.
All of these uh now one thing, just one thing let me just say this.
Yes.
Because if you if you do fix the tort reform, you're gonna reduce the weight of the lawyer lobby.
It's like automatic, don't you think?
Yeah, except lawyers make the laws.
Uh most members of Congress are lawyers or related to them.
Well, I'm talking if the judges, you get the right judges in there.
Well, guess there's no point.
Dirty little secret.
Many judges are former trial lawyers who have been elected by trial lawyers in various cities, towns, and communities for the express purpose of siding with the trial lawyer community.
Well, I'm talking about the ones who the president has signed.
So where where's McCain on that?
That's what I want to know, I guess.
That's a bearing on my vote.
I'll ask him.
Well, he probably heard this.
So I don't know where he is.
I I I think uh I don't really I'm I'm gonna have I'm gonna have to guess.
My my instinctive uh answer to you would be that he has expressed um dissatisfaction with uh the tort lawyer situation and and uh uh these outrageous settlements and claims and so forth.
Be my guess since he's uh he's uh uh uh claims to be a budget hawk.
I think if uh if that gets fixed, I think a lot of problems will just fix themselves.
Well, a lot of people you know uh a lot of people agree with you, and I I would not be one.
I think it's it is uh well, I have a friend who's tort lawyer.
Uh met him uh at a at a Michael Irvin uh charity golf tournament.
And this guy, his he's a he's he's I mean, he unabashed, very proud.
He is uh uh votes Democrat, contributes to Democrats.
He he'll vote Republicans if if uh they want to punish corporations.
Uh he's this and he came by brought me a Christmas present back in December.
He brought me a box of cigars, and he was complaining his business was down.
His tort lawyer business was down.
And I said, What do you mean?
He says, I need movement.
I need movement in my business.
Nobody's moving because the gas price is too high.
I need accidents.
I need broken legs, I need whiplash.
I need destroyed front ends auto- I need I I'm not getting it.
It's it's it's it's it's been a bad Christmas.
Uh okay, yeah, we just my instincts are right on this.
We just checked this.
Uh, the Club for Growth, which is not a big McCain supporter, by the way, uh says that uh his record on tort reform, uh, Rich generally positive.
So um uh if if that's what it would take to get you to vote for uh for Senator McCain, then that's uh go go to the Club for Growth website.
Just go to Google Club for Growth, you'll find it.
Search down what they've said about tort reform uh or what they think McCain said, what his positions are, and uh I think you'll be genuinely uh satisfied uh with that.
That's indeed uh what my instincts were.
So Rich, thanks much for the call.
I um I appreciate it.
I don't think his point was aren't lawsuits the real problem.
If we get a handle on that, won't a lot of other things come into line.
In one area of the culture, yeah.
But there's uh there's there's far more than that that has to be attacked, and and just liberalism pure and simple in the education business.
Oh, everywhere.
You people know this, you know the drill.
Uh back in a sec.
I know.
Uh thank you anyway.
Open line Friday continues here on the uh excellence in broadcasting network, Peggy in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello.
Uh Rush, just what you said before.
It's a theory I've had for a long time.
I think Hillary is a mafia wife.
If you saw the married to the mob movie, it was those gals that pretended they didn't know how their husband uh gave them the money or got the money for their perks.
Now I feel Hillary is the same thing.
I think Tim Russet is way off saying, you know, she wasn't aware and everybody feels so badly for her.
She's Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Russell said she wasn't aware of what?
That she was not aware that he was uh that much of a cheat or that he was cheating on her, or as she said he's never going to do it again.
This gal doesn't care.
This gal has a nuptial agreement, never mind a prenup.
She is going to go for the perks just like God forgive me, the Kennedy women did.
It's uh you just turn your you're a blind eye, you turn your head, your husband's cheating, but you're getting power, money, notoriety.
It's like selling your soul.
You know I can't argue with that.
That is uh that is a pretty good analogy.
Yeah.
And I really like that it's coming.
Well, no, I'll tell you why I like it too.
I like it because it it was it's coming from you, a woman.
See, this is one of the if if I if had said that, a lot of women who might be predisposed to agree with me would still have gotten angry because I was be sounding like I was speaking disrespectful, but you uh can say that and it it it has power because it connects when you say it.
So I'm I'm glad that you called him that I had never consciously looked at it that way.
Because you're absolutely right, there's no way she doesn't know what he's been doing for all of these years.
Exactly.
She's exacted a price for it.
Yes, she has.
And she's going to exact a bigger price if she gets in any position to.
She's gonna buy a silence, O'Merta.
Well, all right.
Now, let me ask you this.
Continuing here with the mafia analogy.
Yes.
Don Clinton Leone.
Right.
It is now his wife who seeks to run the mob.
Yes.
What if she loses?
What if she loses?
Therefore, Don Clinton Leone is of no more value to her.
Right.
He is only a liability.
And of course, Don Clinton Leone will see her as a liability because he can't get back where he wants in the White House without her getting there.
What then happens to this famous mob couple?
I wonder if they would uh have the guts to shed themselves of each other, because I think they're just hanging on to each other for what they can get out of it.
Well, this is no love there.
Never I don't know if there ever was.
But even if there was, as I said, she sold out a long time ago.
She sold out on women.
That's why I can't understand why more women don't see that.
Women are smart.
A lot do.
A lot do.
She's she's it's the dumb women that don't, it's a smart women are moving over to Obama.
Can I ask you another question as a one?
Well, you know, just when you say that too, just what you said before, I thought I'd like to s you know, switch from this business of Mafia wife and go to Obama, because then when you went to Susan Saradin, and uh, you know, about Obama and everything else, I kept saying thinking to myself, they're talking about hope.
But you see, I'm a right to lifer, and what hope is there then for the unborn if either one of them had any say.
None.
None.
There is no hope.
No.
And see, real women would want hope for the unborn.
And real men.
That's true.
Yep.
I need to ask you another question.
As a woman, I mean I'm asking you as a woman.
Yes.
I want you to tell me if I'm off base in this.
Go right ahead.
We have t we have been told, I mean, the the image since uh I guess nineteen ninety-two.
The image of Bill Clinton is that every woman in the world wants the guy, and that when every woman in the world meets the guy, they are paralyzed with admiration, desire.
They are dazzled.
We're told about those big hands.
We're told about those eyes that make you think he is the only you are the only person he's thinking about when he's talking to you, that you are immediately left a quivering mass of desirous jello.
Now, in that case, do you know any women who are jealous of Hillary because she has him and they don't.
Well, I'm coming from an advanced age.
I'm what they call a BIC.
That meant years ago a Bronx Irish Catholic.
In other words, we didn't put out until we got married.
And we had well.
Believe me, there are still plenty of you.
I you know what there are plenty of us, and and they're uh they they maybe they'll come out of the closet more and and everybody'll be a little bit more for chastity and purity and and marriage.
And and uh and the unborn.
So I as I said, I'm coming from a an advanced age.
I understand that, but your advanced age is what is what gives you wisdom here.
Don't you don't have to excuse it.
No, no, I won't.
I'm I'm actually happy that I'm still around.
But uh yeah, no, I think most people, most thinking people, uh my age or whatever, uh feel that she does not signify to Bill Clinton as far as his appeal.
Uh that's another thing too, I think for my background.
We could spot a phony a mile away.
So you think that's an image that's overblown and been cultivated that he really doesn't have that appeal to all that many women.
I uh not not women my age, of course.
Uh and uh, you know, I mean I still can I can appreciate a handsome man, of course.
But I think too that we I know, but we're talking about Bill Clinton.
Let's stay on subject.
No, I think it's because he's a phony and but more than a phony, uh his character stinks.
Yeah, but you know, the women always like to racant tours.
They they like the ne'er do wells, they like the guys taking the motorcycle off the cliff and living to talk about it.
They they like the guys that her parents despised.
Yeah, what do you know what happens then that my mother used to say?
Then they uh pick a lemon in the garden of love.
Pick a lemon in the garden of love.
And that winds up in the divorce courts.
You are um you're our piece of work.
Well, I just I look at uh I'm just I've wondered why, with all of this talk about how uh irresistible Bill Clinton is, no women seem to be jealous of Hillary.
Oh no.
Oh no.
I why would you want your heart broken?
What no that's you wouldn't stick around.
Any woman worth her salt would be a big thing.
No, I mean there were a lot of women jealous of Jackie Onassis.
They wished they were her.
I don't because she was close to Jack, she had whatever she had, she had, in addition to her own attributes, she was there, she was in Camelot.
You know, she was she was uh the women that wanted her husband were jealous of her because she had him.
I don't know any women jealous of Hillary because she's got Bill.
That's well, you see, there again, as I said, the candidates, God God helped them, but Jackie also is uh a mafia wife.
She knew what Jack was, too.
And she sold out.
I mean, I'll always remember her as a president's wife standing there with her little boy on the corner when the hearse passed by.
I mean, my mother used to say, no matter what you think of her, there she is, and that's true.
But I always felt that she let us down too.
Uh because Jack, you see, that made me laugh too as a Catholic, because my dad used to say, Remember, Jack Kennedy is a Roman Catholic, not a Roman Catholic.
This is why.
You have you have uh characterized yourself as a seasoned citizen.
I am.
All right.
Now, this is why one of my undeniable truths of life that I wrote back in 1987, I can't I'm to paraphrase it.
One of the single greatest attributes young people have access to people much older because of what you've seen, what you've learned, and the wisdom you can impart, and you are illustrating that today.
Plus, it is obvious to all of us listening, you have impeccable taste and character.
You are refined.
Uh you are you are a class act.
Well, I have impeccable taste in men, because I married a New York City uh fire lieutenant.
New York City fire lieutenant.
Oh yes, yes.
One of the bravest.
One of the bravest, and uh my two sons, uh well, they were hurt in nine eleven, but uh as I said, I come from a good background, good family.
Well, it's obvious that you very proud of them.
Well, you should be.
I'm and I'm I'm proud you're in the audience now there in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Thank you.
While you're warm and toasty up here freezing the buns.
No, but you'll be back soon to enjoy your beautiful moment.
About uh what is it, 24 hours.
Good for you.
Thanks very much.
It's great to hear from you, Peggy.
Thanks a lot.
And it's good to speak to you.
I thought so much of you.
I do think so much of it.
Thank you.
Same here, and uh have a have a have a wonderful weekend.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, before we go to the uh commercial break, um, it is uh a time for a little public service here.
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Why couldn't it have been me?
Well, don't give up hope.
It could always...
Don't...
That's right, Mr. Sturdly.
Don't...
Don't give don't give Don't give up hope.
But look, what I wanted to tell you, you know, Monday is presence on, and we're going to be here.
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We are going to be here Monday doing broadcast excellence.
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About to come to a uh screeching halt.
But as I say, we will be here on Monday, ladies and gentlemen.
Many people take uh the uh president's weekend uh Monday off, uh go skiing or what have you, but we don't.
Mitt Romney uh still in the gun sites, the political gun sites of Mike Huckabee.
This is all about Romney endorsing McCain yesterday.
And last night on the Fox News channel with uh uh Neil Cavuto.
Huckabee appeared.
Cavuto said, We're we're we're in this odd position today where it's Governor Romney, Kumbayang with Senator McCain, acknowledging the fact that it was a tension campaign, tension-filled campaign.
And in your Mr. Friendly Governor Huckerby, the odd man out, you're challenging the presumed nominee, Senator McCain.
It's a little weird, isn't it?
If uh John McCain and I end up standing on the stage together to uh congratulate one of the other, neither of us will have to uh put in an Oscar-winning performance or take acting lessons before we go up on that stage.
I won't have to uh uh fake it at all.
Senator McCain knows I have nothing but the highest of respect for him.
I think he does for me.
Our relationship has been cordial.
Uh I don't have to go and and behind the scenes apologize or hope nothing gets brought up that's been said in the past.
He's attacking attacking Romney said acting lessons has to fake it when he says neither I nor McCain will have to put in an Oscar-winning performance or take acting lessons before we go up on that stage.
I won't have to fake it at all.
Romney's gone.
The Huckster's still attacking Romney.
Claiming to be best budge with Senator McCain.
And I will guarantee you on the straight talk express.
Senator McCain's looking at his campaign aids.
What are we gonna do?
Heck of me.
He thinks he thinks we're still pregnant.
It's time to throw him under this bush, and he has to get it.
Well, he will get it.
If he doesn't understand, we'll make him understand.
I'm not gonna put up with this.
I am an ominee.
It's mine.
It's mine.
Keep him in the Caymans.
I don't care if a bus has to go down a cameras or run over him.
It's gonna happen.
You got me?
The aide said, yes, sir, yes, sir.
Absolutely.
If I have to, I'll take it all the way to the Supreme Court, like I did comprehensive.
Campaign finance reform.
Uh Warner in Brunswick, Maine.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, sir.
I've got a quick got a quick question for you, Russia.
Yeah.
Does the conservative base have enough influence to, shall we say, inspire Senator McCain to govern conservatively?
Does the conservative base have that kind of power over Senator McCain?
Or that kind of power within the Republican Party that we can keep him in control.
See, that's the rub.
I I I don't think so.
I I don't think I don't think that's his personality.
I mean, look at you let me put try to put this in perspective for you.
This is John McCain.
Reputation is of a man of honor, character, integrity, prisoner of war, survived multiple years of torture.
I don't think McCain, and by the way, I admire him in this.
I don't think McCain is a weak spirited guy who needs a bunch of advisors about what he believes.
I think his advisors have to tow his line.
I frankly uh I get so worn out of having presidents and people thinking that they're advisors.
Like I Carl Rove.
Carl Rove, mad scientist genius was George Bush's brain.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
George Bush is committed to what he's gonna do, and he's gonna do it come hell or high water.
And there isn't anybody's gonna talk him out of it because he believes passionately in what he believes, or he wants to get done what he wants to get done.
I think McCain is even more so.
I think McCain is committed.
He's he's 70 years old.
You know, he's he's not where he doesn't run around think he's got something to learn.
He thinks we all have something to learn.
That's right.
Limbo, you're getting it.
You do have something to learn.
I am the guy to teach you.
If you don't get it, I will.
Thanks very much for being with us today, folks.
Open line Friday now over.
But it was a blast.
It was a good time.
We'll uh just take a little weekend here to rejuvenate and be back with you on uh on Monday.
Uh many of you, of course, will be taking the presence day holiday off, but a lot of you won't.
Uh, we will not be either.
Uh we will be here.
We will all be here, and we'll see you then.
Have a great weekend and thanks for joining us all week.
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