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June 13, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 13, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Live from the Stop the Tape.
Michelle Malkin.
Fox News.
Obama campaign.
Obama campaign webmasters.
Listen, November 24th in Illinois at the Barack Obama Senate Victory Celebration.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege to introduce to you the next United States Senator from the state of Illinois.
My husband.
My honey.
My man.
My baby's daddy.
Barack Obama.
Resume tape.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line.
Stop the tape.
Attention CNN.
Attention Barack Obama campaign.
Attention Obama campaign website, Master.
Attention, Michelle Malkin.
Michelle Obama, November 2, 2004 in Illinois at the Senate Victory Party.
Ladies and gentlemen, is my privilege to introduce to you the next United States Senator from the state of Illinois.
my husband, my honey, my man, My baby's daddy.
Barack Obama.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Yahoo.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
At Open Line Friday, we go to the phones.
The program is all yours.
Meaning you can talk about whatever you wish.
Telephone number is 800 two eight two-2882 and the email address.com.
By the way, I am no baby's daddy.
Serving humanity simply by showing up here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You may wonder why we're airing this.
It's because Michelle Malkin's taking grief for having been responsible for Fox News recently.
Running that phrase.
She was not even aware that it was on the screen.
So here it is.
And the Obama website's out there trying to say this is a horrible insult to say this about Obama and about Michelle.
She said it herself again November 2nd, 2004.
Listen to it one more time.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege to introduce to you the next United States Senator from the state of Illinois.
My husband, my honey, my man, my baby's daddy, Barack Obama.
That is what I saw.
And he came out and he didn't even acknowledge her.
And I was stunned.
I don't remember him saying my baby's daddy, but he just walked right past her, took the microphone.
And didn't say a word about her after that really, really raucous send-up.
So I I guess what we're going to hear from Obama is that's not the Michelle I knew.
Senator Chris Dodd.
The Senate Banking Committee Chairman reportedly received two mortgages under a special countrywide financial corporation program that gave preferential interest rates to friends of the company's chairman.
A spokesman for Chris Dodd, Democrat Connecticut, said Friday, the Senator did not seek any special treatment.
Oh, uh-huh.
Didn't seek it, eh?
Here you are, the chairman of the Senate banking committee.
You don't have to seek it.
A spokesman for Dodd said the Dodds received a competitive rate on their loan.
They did not seek or anticipate any special treatment.
They were not aware of any.
The news of the loans came as Dodd is playing a high profile profile role seeking to ease the nation's housing foreclosure crisis.
Condinas Portfolio Magazine first reported Dodd's participation in a special program that awarded preferential rates to people considered friends of the company's chairman and chief executive, Angelo Mazzillo.
Portfolio reported that countrywide made two loans at special rates to Chris Dodd in 2003.
One was a $500,000 loan to refinance a Washington townhouse.
The second was for refinancing a loan on a home in East Haddam, Connecticut.
Countrywide waived three-eighths of a point or about two thousand dollars on the townhouse loan, and a quarter point about $700 on the second, according to internal documents cited by Portfolio.
Both loans were for 30 years with the first five years at a fixed rate.
The magazine said other participants in the company's VIP program included Senator Kent Conrad, Democrat, North Dakota, Chairman of the Budget Committee, and a member of the Finance Committee, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alfonso Jackson, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalela, and former UN Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrook.
All of these people got preferential loans from countrywide.
All of these wealthy Democrats got cheaper interest rates than you could.
Of course they didn't seek them.
Of course they didn't.
I had no idea that Angelo was going to do this for me.
Of course not.
You're only the chairman of the banking committee.
Portfolio said that according to company documents and emails, the participants got deals that were better than those available to ordinary borrowers.
Fannie May's former CEO, Jim Johnson, resigned Wednesday, as you know, as the leader of Barack Obama's search team for a running mate.
After the Wall Street Journal reported that he and another former CEO, Franklin Rains, received low-rate home loans from countrywide, a large originator of high-risk subprime mortgages, and a major seller of home loans to Fannie Mae.
This Obama guy, I mean, he knows people that are just locked dead into scandal and corruption and favors.
Two items of good news on gasoline prices, ladies and gentlemen.
First from Bloomberg, crude oil fell as Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali Al-Naimi said that record prices are unjustified, and that the state oil company signaled that it may soon start pumping from a new field.
The June 22nd meeting in Jeddah will discuss the price rise, which are unjustified by fundamentals, and suggest appropriate solutions.
The kingdom will start pumping oil from its new $500,000 barrel-a day field within the next month, said a board member of Saudi Aramco.
Saudi is trying to get some of the heat out of the market and off of them at the same time, said Antoine Half, the head of energy research at Newage USA LLC in New York.
The meeting is an attempt to get beyond the blame game and find solutions to the problems of high prices.
And the second story that's favorable.
In terms of gas prices, the dollar headed for its biggest weekly gain versus the Euro since 2005.
As traders speculated, the Federal Reserve will increase borrowing costs this year, and Irish voters rejected a treaty promoting European Union unity.
That's that's pretty big story, by the way, the what the Irish have done.
The U.S. currency rose to a one-month high against the Euro on bets that the group of eight finance ministers meeting this weekend will signal they favor a stronger dollar.
Then after I read those two stories, a third one cropped up, wiping out all the good news.
CNN reporting that Midwest floods may send gasoline up 15%.
Why?
Soaring corn prices could increase the price of ethanol, driving up demand for oil and sending gas prices even higher.
And of course, as would be expected in a story from the drive-by media, it's time for Congress to act.
Brief timeout will be they screw it up every time they get their hands on it.
Hey, I have a quick question.
This it's sort of a it is a little bit of a trick question.
I shouldn't have said that.
I'm just curious what you people think about this.
Everybody has a cell phone, right?
A lot of people have more than one cell phone.
What are your thoughts on early cancellation fees of your contract?
For example, when um when the iPhone, the first iPhone came out, I I got a bunch of them to give away to staff members.
And some of them said, I can't.
I I just I just signed a contract with T-Mobile, or I just signed a contract with Verizon or whatever, and I still got like 18 months.
There's a like a hundred and seventy-five dollar cancellation fee.
That's okay.
You want to stick with that, fine.
I'll give the iPhone to somebody else.
Whoa, wait a minute.
And then they started cursing the early cancellation fee.
The contract.
Every I mean, if you get an iPhone, you gotta sign a two-year contract with ATT.
If you get any cell phone, you've got to sign some sort of contract.
There was a hearing yesterday in Washington, the FCC.
The Republican controlled FCC.
The pro regulation, Republican administration, FCC.
And they adopted a position that these early cancellation fees are just not fair.
Early termination fees, ETFs is what they're officially called.
Early termination fees.
And they're just not fair.
They're just not right.
They just screw the customer rush.
The customer gets in, buys the phone, and then once, and then after after maybe six months wants to get out, I can't afford to without this large pay.
But wait, didn't you sign a contract?
Yes, but it's still not fair because they've got me roped into a service I don't want.
Well, no, because all these have a 30-day return policy.
You know, you can use the phone for 30 days if you don't like it.
You get 30 days to take it back, get it, get your money back, and then you're out of you know you're out of the contract.
You go beyond 30 days.
Right.
Right.
And when you sign the contract, right, you they may sell you a $300 phone or $200 phone for $15 or $20 or whatever, because they really want you to sign up for the service.
It's the service they want.
It ain't gonna be long before these phones are going to be free or practically free.
But at any rate, consumer activists.
Consumer activists have been lobbying the FCC only behalf of those of you who think you should not have to honor the contract that you've signed with the cellular provider that you chose.
And so the the consumer activist is actually not a consumer activist.
The consumer activist is just another leftist who is using consumers ostensibly for the real purpose of expanding the regulatory power of government.
There were consumer activists at the FCC hearing yesterday.
And of course, they were whining and crying, and they were talking about predatory contractual services required by cellular companies.
And they took advantage of unwitting people.
Didn't fully tell them what they were signing.
Yes, they do, because everybody knows.
And if they don't, they find out if they try to get out of the contract, they do for there's a cancellation charge.
So one of the things proposed by the so-called consumer activists was that consumers be forced while buying a phone to read every page and sign every page of the contract that the con that the uh cellular service requires one signature on.
This would elongate and expand the whole process of buying a cellular phone.
And it would it people aren't gonna want to mess with this and do this.
The um uh I mean, I know they do that with mortgages, but it's not too you know, you really don't go to your mortgage company, I'm I don't like this.
Uh the point, the point is there are plenty of options For people who do not want to sign two year contracts with a cell provider.
Do you know what the options are?
Well, one of the things that you can do is uh is show up and get uh you know one of these phones, what do they call track phones or virgin mobile phones at a Walmart or a 7 Eleven or something?
The pay is you go phone, and you throw it away when it's finished.
It's got a number and so forth, but there's no contract with it.
Now the carriers will offer discounts if you sign up long term.
Uh early termination fees are an efficient means of enforcing the deal.
But the the point here is that the that I'm trying to make is the consumer activists who are actually they make you think they're looking out for you when they're not.
They're just it it it's no more than animal rights people are just nothing but leftists trying to eliminate your freedom.
Consumer activists in large part are simply doing what they can to get the power of government more involved in every little transaction you make under the premise that every transaction you make with whatever corporation, they're out to screw you.
They're out to defa to uh defraud you and to fool you and to mistreat you and so forth and so on.
Yet they hide under this this banner here of uh of consumer activists.
And so what we end up with is more federal regulation over the simple transaction of buying a cell phone in service.
More federal regulation.
This stuff is hideous.
It happens at every FCC.
How many of you knew this happened yesterday?
How many of you knew that there were hearings at the FCC on early termination fees?
I doubt that you knew, and if you bothered to read the New York Times today on page Z 75, you might have read about it, but the story in the New York Times doesn't New York Times story is as biased as anything else, because I know what went on at the meeting.
Here's what they wrote.
The chairman of the FCC, Kevin Martin, laid out a plan on Thursday to regulate the high fees.
Cellophone companies charge consumers for canceling their contracts early.
Mr. Martin's proposal was similar to an industry plan put forward last month.
In comments at a public meeting, Martin said he was skeptical that class action lawsuits would adequately resolve for consumers all the pending issues about these fees.
He joked that his wife, apparently unhappy about the fees, had volunteered to testify at the hearing.
He also criticized the fees himself, saying that in practice it can leave people locked into a service that they really want to leave.
They signed a contract.
They've got 30 days to determine whether or not they like the service.
If you really want to leave, pay the fee.
You made a deal.
You signed a contract.
But now, see, even people, even winning this is the same thing that's happening in the mortgage lending crisis.
Predatory lenders, predatory cell phone service companies.
Screwing the little guy.
Not telling them what all's in the fine print.
This is not fine print stuff.
Anyway, folks, is not a then I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill here, but it's it's a clear ex illustration, a great example of how even a Republican administration can sit around and love the notion of more regulation over virtually any kind of transaction that we might have in our daily lives.
Bill in Oxford, Massachusetts.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIC.
Thank you, Rush.
And yes, I knew all that stuff.
I've been listening to you for 19 years.
And I am the sole surviving member of the keepers of odd knowledge society here in Massachusetts.
So yes, I know all that.
Well, it's a I've been I haven't ahead of the official uh communication the keepers of odd knowledge society.
Well, I'm the only one left.
And once again, I'm calling from Massachusetts, so I think you can understand that my blinds are down and uh I only smoke my cigars in the house.
Well, you the your wife uh does not object.
Uh what she doesn't dare.
Uh but that that's another story.
She actually is a government employee.
And so I'm not going to mention her name.
But I'm calling to do something that you don't like to hear.
I'm calling to applaud you.
And I know that only because it's open line Friday that you'll submit uh yourself to the accolades that I'm About to bestow upon you.
Your accolades are going to have to wait, because I'm uh I'm I can gather here you're not going to be able to get them in in ten seconds.
Which we we have to go to a hard break.
Can you hang on through the uh commercial for the accolades?
I'm really this does make me uncomfortable.
Uh audience is well aware that I don't like myself being disgusted and complimented and so on.
Working on it, though.
And we go back to Oxford, Massachusetts, and the alleged lone surviving member, the keepers of odd knowledge society.
Bill, you were going to shower me with accolades, and you know that I'm uncomfortable with this.
Yes, I do.
And I and I please allow me to apologize in advance for what I'm about to say.
Uh when I get off the phone from you, I'm gonna be calling our U.S. Representative uh John Oliver, who by the way with the uh determining vote against the Peterson Bill yesterday and the house representatives to keep us from drilling offshore.
But I'm gonna call him nonetheless to ask him to again nominate you for the Nobel Peace Prize for two different reasons.
Uh the first reason being your support of the keep our own kids safe initiative.
I mean, which uh as we don't get it's critical uh for the health and well-being of our children in this society.
The dangers to soccer are something more people need to be aware of.
You're absolutely right.
Yeah, and then not enough people know it, Rush, and if it weren't for you, I'm not certain anybody would.
But above and beyond that, about I don't know, thirty, forty minutes ago.
Uh you invested a tremendous amount of money.
I mean, Airtime is not free to help a citizen of ours in the state of Texas who had been subjected to mercury vapor poisoning and uh the public service announcement and the time that you invested in helping the majority of the American public uh that listen to you and understand you, uh that that needs to be rewarded.
And so I I wanted to applaud you and and thank you as a citizen.
Well, I very much appreciate that.
Uh quite observant of you.
Most people uh would not uh look at uh both of these instances that you've cited as something worthy of praise.
But I'm glad that you did, and you flatter me.
I thank you very much.
Well, and frankly, uh it it's not flattering.
It's it it ain't bragging if it's true.
And uh and sir, chin up and thank you from all of us.
Thank you, sir.
Very very much.
I appreciate it.
It's Bill from Oxford, Massachusetts, the uh last surviving member, the keepers of odd knowledge society, which was formed in Maine prior to even the Bilderbergers.
Uh here's Ray in Burlington, Connecticut.
Welcome, Ray.
Great to have you with us.
Uh it's a pleasure, Rush.
Uh probably gonna ruin everybody's day by uh calling that guy that uh Mercury poisoning uh fruit cake.
Wait a second, wait a second.
The fruit cake from Rock Wolf, Texas?
Yes.
You know, all he did was Why are you calling him a fruit cake?
Well, really what he did was collect on his employer's time, his insurance, and wasted a lot of time from other people.
Uh Mercury poisoning, we used to play with Mercury's kids.
We used to make lead coins, cover them with mercury, and pass them.
Illegal, but we did it just for fun.
Uh it's this wait a was this elemental mercury.
It is elemental, it is elemental mercury that provides the fumes here that then provides or causes the damage.
Right.
You could have eaten that.
I mean, you look at if you would have been dealing with elemental mercury and you put and you're putting it on uh nickels or whatever you said, lead coins, uh you would you you too would have uh been made uncomfortable by the fumes.
Well, I hate to tell you I'm seventy-six, and I was about fourteen when I did this.
And I survived.
Well, I I un now that you say that, I understand.
I I uh frankly, I I can understand in a in a in a in a fashion, although I don't agree with you that the guy from Rockwall, Texas, uh was a fruitcake about this.
I mean, the centers for disease control is warning everybody about these fumes, and there are hazmat teams that have to cle you know fumigate houses where one of these bulbs breaks.
But I understand we're a bunch of babies.
You know, when I've you I've seen the thing that floats around on the internet that uh we played with lead toys back we were growing up, uh got the front doors open, we go out and play all day, never see our parents for six or seven hours.
They didn't worry about what was gonna happen.
Uh we rode bicycles and cross the streets and so forth, and now everybody's babied and nanny'd and assume that uh virtually every breath you take is a life-threatening event.
Every step you take is a life-threatening event.
And every step and breath that you take has to be regulated by some government agency, uh, and that nobody has responsibility for what they do anymore.
It's always somebody else's fault when something goes wrong.
I can understand that you as seventy-six years old would look at uh succeeding generations as a bunch of wimps and a bunch of weaklings, and in many ways, in many ways out there.
Uh Ray, I I could agree with you.
I mean, they've had to invent their own traumas out there in order to make themselves believe that life was tough.
And let look at you, playing with Mercury.
Nettle coins, nickel coins, putting Mercury around and passing it around.
I'm like you.
I did all kind I'm I mean, I'm one of the most practical jokes that I played back when I played them, they were over the top.
They were over the line.
Today they're nothing.
But they when I did some of the stuff that I did, and I announced it shortly after this program began back in 1988, much of it my mother was learning for the first time.
Did not.
Is that what Daunting Dawn saying he still has no remorse over what he did?
No, it was fun.
Some of the most fun times of my life.
I certainly didn't like school in my childhood, so many of my practical jokes were aimed at the school.
Anyway, Jimmy in uh in the woodlands, Texas, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, how are you?
Very good, very good, thank you.
Uh, we have to make a correction on the statement you made yesterday that Budweiser was a U.S. institution that actually came from little town Czechoslovakia, and they were brewing it for 600 years and filed a patent in 37, right before Hitler took over, and then they were really preempted from selling outside of uh the Hitler controlled areas, and Budweiser stole the name, and it was uh they were the guys that developed the pale bottom fermenting Pilsner.
And uh the German company that was partners with the Czech company, the German pronunciation was Budweiser, so that's actually where the name came from, and that's where the beer came from.
Well, I I know.
Adolphus Busch is who actually brought the whole shebang, shebang to the United States from Germany.
I knew that.
Yeah, but he was everybody that grew up in in St. Louis knows the history of Anheuser Busch.
But he was not part of the the Budweiser company in Czechoslovakia.
What are you saying?
That we raped Czechoslovakia and Anheiser Bush raped Czechoslovakia.
What are we saying here?
Yeah, that's the same.
I mean, this is like saying this is like saying that we brought syphilis and so forth and polluted the Indians.
And it is the Indian's country, not ours.
Well, no, he they they he took the the product and the process and everything out of there and and but so what?
That that was common.
So what?
So he was an entrepreneur, so he was able to steal a name.
Doesn't matter, it is what it is now, and it is a distinctly American iconic business.
You you have to admit that.
Yeah, but you gotta give credit to the poor little checks for developing it.
I I have another point that's a little more serious.
You know, we've got a you've you've talked about the Republican Party having to to be taken down before they're able to grow up and the conservative values and everything be brought to the surface again.
And you know, we've got an ankle biting, backstabbing candidate that really just you know, it's just it's pitiful.
And every day he comes out with something else that that makes sense.
Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
Your your your phone for me is a little bit muffled, but I'm sure it's normal for a lot of people.
Did you say an ankle biting backstabbing candidate?
Yeah, that's that's what we've got as a Republican candidate.
Oh, you're talking about McCain.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Oh, oh.
And you said that the Republican Party is gonna have to get rid of the blue bloods and get back to conservatism, they're gonna have to have a big fall.
And I don't Think any of us in our in our right minds could possibly support Obama, but you know, every day, just like his statements again today and his statements yesterday, every day the guy states something that is just ridiculous.
We decide he's got a case of halfheimers.
He didn't have a full blown case yet.
Wait, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Who is we?
We've decided he has a case of Alzheimer's.
Who's we?
Everybody we talk to, our conservative group, you know, our friends and neighbors and everybody.
He he doesn't have a full blame case of Alzheimer's yet, but he's definitely got halfheimers.
He's got a half-bone case.
And that's our candidate.
And you know, you said we're gonna have to take the Republican Party down a notch.
Well, you know, maybe we need to throw chaos on our own party and support a third party candidate, which I know you don't like, but that absolutely should should spit in our eye.
And they know that there's a people that don't like them halfheimers.
Listen to me, you know that.
I mean the guy.
No, I don't know that.
Don't put those words in my mouth.
I do not know.
I do not know that he has half-heimers.
The guy, he just, you know, he stabbed us in the back every chance he's had.
I don't think that's I don't think the problem is halfheimers.
Okay.
I look at we can't we we cannot elect Obama.
We just can't do it.
Oh, I know it.
We can't do it for now, especially after Supreme Court decision, we cannot do it.
We it just cannot happen.
We don't face a whole lot of good options here.
We've got w what what we what we need here, what we hope for is a really vibrant young uh uh conservative vice presidential choice.
Okay, and and why do you think he's gonna do that?
I have no clue what he's gonna do.
That's I don't either.
I don't think any of us do.
That's the problem.
We don't trust the guy, period.
He is not trustworthy.
Well, the Democrats seem to be able to trust him, uh or have over over the over the past well, I know I understand uh you know you've you've listened well, you've you've um you've heard well uh what you've you're here on this program and your and your uh obviously friends who share these same sentiments.
But it it's it's uh it's it is very, very, very, very tough because if the Republicans do win with this kind of strategy, then the blue blood's just gonna say, see, see, we don't need conservatism in this party to win.
We need people to reach across the aisle and uh beat up the U.S. economy and the oil companies, and that's how we're gonna win.
Well, you know, the there's a the there's a libertarian out there, and he's not a perfect, but he's he's absolutely got more going for him than these other two.
In worst case scenario, who he's the libertarian candidate.
Ron Paul?
No, no, no, he's not running.
Ron Paul was running as a Republican.
Oh, you mean Bob Barr, Bob Barr.
Yeah, yeah.
Bob Barr.
And uh, you know, if the worst case scenario is is that we split the vote and Obama wins, but it hadn't been with our support, and that should that should absolutely spit by the blue blood Republicans.
And if he does happen to win, then you know it gives us a state of execution, gives us time to get enough enough uh conservatives in there, you know, another four years of hard work and bring him back around.
State of execution, halfheimer halfheimers.
Okay.
You know, Jimmy, I love the call.
I uh I I appreciate your standing up for the checks when it comes to uh Anheuser Bush.
Every everybody deserves credit for what they did, especially those uh who have uh been stolen from.
I appreciate that.
Look, I gotta run though I'm way over time in this segment.
We'll be right back and continue in just a sec.
The uh Huffington Post has a uh a story uh posted uh last night, actually yesterday morning, by m somebody named Mona Ackerman.
And the title of the piece is Should Hillary Leave Him now.
Meaning should Hillary just leave Bill now.
Since it says it's over, should Hillary leave.
Question.
For many years a lot of people wondered if Hillary would leave Bill.
Why is no one asking the same question now that she's no longer in the race?
Why is it?
Why is that was uh curious to people before no longer seems so interesting now.
I think it's just funny.
I mean, libs.
Women now speculate.
Okay, now's the time to leave Bill.
Stayed with him to use him, and he didn't come through.
Yes, Mr. Sturdley, pro Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Uh they have well, there I I sturdley asked me that he's heard that they have an enemies list.
Uh based on this lamb last campaign, who defected from them like Bill Richardson and some of the others.
I've read the same thing.
Uh Matt Drudge is on the enemies list.
I am not.
How could I be?
I mean, I sustained that campaign with Operation Chaos.
It sort of disappointed me to not be on.
I mean, if there's a Clinton enemy, I mean I think I'd be at the top of it, but I didn't make the list.
If there is a list, I don't doubt there's a list, but I have never This is another one of these media stories.
I haven't seen the Clintons a comment on their own media list.
Have you?
I haven't heard McAuliffe or Carville talk about the enemies list.
I mean, that's Nixonian.
And you know how the Clintons hated Nixon.
I mean, Hillary worked on a Watergate committee there as a staff lawyer.
But if there's an enemy's list, I would the Clintons.
Um I think whether there is or not, they love the fact that people think there's an enemies list.
Here's Barbara in Lawrence, Kansas.
Hi, Barbara.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Gosh, thanks for having me.
I sure do enjoy and learn from you a whole bunch.
Well, thank you.
I am calling about the business with the telephone contracts.
And uh at one point you said one of the suggestions was that uh people be forced to sit and read an initial or sign each page of the contract.
That's right.
That's what the consumer activists, the consumer advocates, want the consumers who buy a phone to read every page and initial after they've after they've read it uh to make sure that the phone company can't screw them.
That's right.
We we didn't they don't want them to be victims, right?
And all I all I could think of as a former teacher is that if you gave them the Dagom contract, a lot of people nowadays wouldn't know what they meant anyway, and so we could hold them in that victim uh situation because bless their hearts, they weren't taught to read properly.
Well, even if they have been taught to read properly, reading a legal contract sometimes is daunting anyway, with all the wherefores, whereas, how comes, why not.
I agree with that.
I agree with that a hundred percent.
But even people with a reasonable level of reading capacity, uh, you know, can now read them.
But what I'm saying is that they're getting reduced by the teachers union on levels of comprehension, and uh, you know, we're gonna keep everybody in that victim status as long as we can't.
I think it takes the stew out of me.
Yeah.
Uh irritates a stew out of you, did you say?
Yes, it is.
Yeah, me too.
Even though I don't eat stew, but it I I know I know what you mean.
It is a frustrating thing.
Look, I'm glad I'm glad you called Barbara.
Thanks so much.
Uh before we go to the uh break here, folks.
I just want to remind you it's Father's Day coming up on Sunday.
It, you know, a lot of cards out there make fun of dad, but don't make fun of dad.
Anyone wants just once?
Just once.
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What a great week, a spectacular summer week on the EIB network.
And we'll start a new one on Monday.
Look forward to that.
Have a great weekend, folks.
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