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May 8, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 8, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Oh, where even the substitute hosts have more fun than a substitute host deserves to have.
I'm Mark Davis from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth, and Rush is back on Monday.
So smiles all around for that.
Hope you have a fantastic weekend.
One of the things that is a central to this weekend, and I guess here come these floodgates, uh, let me put it in with everything else we've been talking about, lots of uh what one would expect in the midst of a topical Friday, future of the Republican Party, uh duplicitousness of the Democrats, um, the the almost hourly annoyances of the Obama regime.
Oh, we've done all of that.
But uh since it's Friday, and since it's me, it's gonna wander pretty far afield on a couple of things.
So I'm just gonna essentially say three words, Star Trek movie.
That's it.
Thank you very much.
Good night.
It's all the time we have.
No, I I'm actually gonna go to the Archbishop slamming the Obama appearance at Notre Dame because I am intrigued by this.
Didn't Carter go to Notre Dame?
I mean, did I mean it's not like every president to speak at Notre Dame has been uh you know pro-life Republican.
Sometimes it's like Notre Dame, it's like, wow, it's the president, so okay, okay.
And I've sort of been willing to, you know, live with that up to a point.
But this is the president who went to Georgetown and said, cover up the Jesus stuff.
This is a president who's who's whose enthusiasm for the termination of pregnancies seems to be unprecedented.
So I'm I'm intrigued by that story, and I'm gonna share that story, in fact, right now.
But as I do, I kinda wanna know about the Star Trek movie, if it's okay.
A couple of things.
I and please, no plot developments, no giveaways, none of this, but I'm fascinated by the franchise.
I am 51.
So when Star Trek first aired, I'm like eight.
And at first it was like, what?
What's this?
I was being a dumb kid, I was kind of more of a lost in space guy, which is just stupid.
I watch old Lost in Spaces now where almost all of the aliens seem to be made from vacuum cleaner parts from the uh from the studio closet and I know sorry, kids already invoking Dr. Smith.
And there's there was a cartoon.
Oh, I'm gonna mess this up.
Oh, God, give me strength.
There was a cartoon, one of those single panel cartoons that just showed the the ridiculousness of Lost in Space.
It essentially involved John Robinson, right?
Who was the the patriarch of all of this, and and his kids, he had two, you know, sort of semi-hot daughters, and then there was annoying adolescent uh Will.
And it was the one panel thing was John Robinson telling his daughters to go off with, you know, uh i it it it with Don, who only could have uh horrible motives for hanging out with uh Penny and whoever they were.
And then the other line was, and Will, pointing over to Dr. Smith and Will, Will, I want you to run off with this with this mincing boy hungry pedophile.
And I'm sorry, I've been laughing at that for 15 years, and it just doesn't translate on radio.
I apologize.
So anyway, so I was kind of doing the Lost in Space thing.
And then I guess I turned nine or turn ten.
And I take that's probably season two, season three or whatever, and all my friends started to say, wow, are you watching Star Trek?
Are you watching Star Trek?
It's so cool, it's so cool, it's so cool.
And I started to, and of course, that's a bug that bit and has not let go for, you know, more than 40 years.
Is it campy?
Of course.
Is there is it sometimes simplistic?
Of course.
Is it sometimes absurdly overacted?
Of course.
But there is a charm to the original Star Trek that it's just uh it is stop down television for me.
If I'm doing cable apps and go boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, and it's just bam, and there's trouble with tribles, or for the world is hollow and I've touched the sky, or or Turnabout Intruder, which I guess was the last episode ever, or uh or The Man Trap, which I guess was the first after the cage, you know, blah, blah, blah episode ever.
And I I just instantly, I I will always just and log at least four or five minutes of what's going on on the Enterprise.
It's just that compelling.
And I don't know if it's just the nostalgia thing, but there's a lot of other stuff that was on in the mid-60s that I recognize then and recognize now was crap.
You know, so um if they They start tossing up episodes of my mother the car.
I ain't stopping down for them.
So that to me is a little bit of testimony to the enduring greatness of uh of Star Trek.
Um my devotion to it ran so deep and so unhealthily that when somebody in a free country decided uh some twenty years later, hey, let's do an offshoot of this, Star Trek The Next Generation, right, with Captain Picard and Data and all of that good stuff.
Oh, I I could not hide my bitterness.
I I was so resentful.
What?
Someone else is gonna wear those logos on their banlan shirts?
Captain Picard.
What kind of frothy Euro nonsense is that?
The captain needs to be from Iowa, not from, you know, the suburbs of Marseille.
Captain Picard.
Jean-Luc Picard at that.
Huh, a spit in the general direction of this new show.
But then something happened.
I actually watched it, and uh it's great.
You know it was great.
I mean, that's 20 years ago now.
Next generation, and the storylines that it wove, you know, the bog and all of that.
I mean, it entertained a whole new generation of dorks and and me as well, even though I was well into adulthood by then.
Next generation was uh I mean in fact, it is an enormously loftier, better product than the original show by every definition.
Acting talent, writing talent, special effects.
I mean, please, it owns the first series.
But the first series is what's in my heart and in my head and in my childhood, so that's what's all you're gonna mean way more to me.
Then they came up with uh uh Voyager and you know, Deep Space Nine, you know, Star Trek Barbados with Jeff Probed.
I mean, just so many, it's just like, oh, stop it, stop it, make it stop, and I didn't care about any of those.
And quite frankly, I haven't thought about any of the above for most of the last decade.
Been kind of busy.
Then came um, you know, the word, the buzz, that uh they're gonna make sort of the ultimate prequel a movie that comes out now, but is placed on the timeline previous to anything you've ever seen before.
When Kirk and Spock and Dr. McCoy, um, who was the comedian?
Who was the comedian just doing the Star Trek thing?
The most ordinary thing sets off bones.
The most ordinary thing sets off uh DeForest Kelly as Dr. McCoy.
He's the most easily irascible character in the history of television.
And one comedian, I don't know about probably been laughing about this for 25 years, I don't know who it was.
You know, you're on the Enterprise, Captain Kirk turns to turns to Bones, says, Excuse me, uh Doctor, would you uh hand me that tray right there?
Damn it, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a busboy.
But they're all young.
Uh Kirk and Spock and uh and Dr. McCoy are all uh, you know, what are they?
They're all they're all they're they're kids.
I mean, not kids' kids, but what I don't know how far back they go.
But it's before any of them are ever on the Enterprise as they're as the adult selves as the you know 30-ish, 40-ish guy that uh Kirk was, or however many centuries old spy, whatever.
Uh and I looked at this and I said, Well, okay, if it's good, if it's good, I'll I'll be on board.
And it apparently is.
It is apparently magnificent.
I sure hope so.
I won't uh I probably can't uh drag myself into a theater until like Monday afternoon.
So uh I'm as I said gonna weave some other topical things here, but if you and you know many of you have seen it.
There were evening showings all over the place last night, midnight showings, blah, blah, blah.
And maybe some of you caught it even uh earlier today.
Uh, let me know.
Does it honor the franchise?
That's all I want.
Honor the franchise and be good.
The show needs to be two things for two different movie going populations.
It needs to be good enough so that people who have no knowledge or even concept of the Star Trek franchise can go and have a good two hours and ten minutes or whatever.
And for those of us for whom this may be one of the most favorite TV memories of our lives, uh it it needs to pay, it needs to be, it needs to honor those sensibilities.
And just from reading the reviews, and I think I threw this down last time I was on the show.
Let me Do it for you again.
Metacritic.com.
M-E-T-A-C-R-I-T-I-C.
Nothing like web surfing on the radio.
I'm web surfing on the Limbaugh Show.
There are no rules.
Metacritic is essentially a compendium of every review that's out of every movie that's out.
Boom.
And they give every movie a score.
And the reviews on this are just, I mean, it's it's got an 84, which is just off the charts.
You think, yeah, but that's only a B. No, no, no, that's not how Metacritic goes.
A horrible, I mean, a review that hates it is a zero.
A reviewer that loves it is a hundred.
A reviewer that's eh, you know, it's okay, is a fifty.
So it's a full hundred scale.
So 84.
I mean, there's what's higher than 84 right now in Metacritic.
Uh, that would be nothing.
Uh Coralline, Adventureland, Gran Torino, 72, 76, stuff like that.
Nothing ever gets the 90s, except maybe the godfather, you know, box set.
So every reviewer in this thing has just absolutely loved uh the new Star Trek movie.
A, does it deserve that?
And B, what's the youngest kid that you'd be comfortable with in there?
Because I got a six-year-old who wants to see it, and I had to tell him on day one, sorry, buddy.
Inappropriate.
I'm so very sorry, but just not going.
And it's like, oh bummer.
Now, here's the thing.
But the way I instantly knew this, is uh they've apparently, you know, thrown some sex in there.
And the first thing that makes me think is, oh God, they had to do that to pander to whoever.
But I said that on my local show this morning, and somebody called me and said, No, no, no, Mark, with follow your own advice, follow your own advice withhold judgment until you have seen it.
So I will.
And because what this caller told me is that however long there is some sexual content in the Star Trek movie, is to quote him vital to the plot.
Well, I don't know what movies I can really recall, which a sex scene was vital to the plot.
I'm sure there are a couple.
But uh that's that's what I'm told, and it doesn't come across as gratuitous, and it doesn't come across as cheap, and it doesn't come across as tawdry, and it is what it is, and that's why this thing is a PG 13.
But the most important thing is it is apparently magnificent, and it uh drops all the references you'd want, fills up some early history that you'd want, and just is apparently just wonderful.
So good.
Now, if the if that pretty well is the case, then good, be happy and listen to the show and get on me about some other topic.
If anything I've just laid out is completely wrong in your view, and you think, no, it was terrible, or no, the sex was gratuitous and awful, and oh, or nay, they haven't, then give me a feel free to give me a shot as I proceed on, if I may, uh, with uh some of the other topical matter that I had envisioned for this hour.
Uh the phone number, as you well know, is 1800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
When we come back, well, ask what you will, and it shall be done.
I got some folks on the line who've seen the Star Trek movie, but the first thing I will do is tell you about the continuing controversy as the date draws nearer for President Obama at Notre Dame.
We can do all, we can multitask.
We, the Limbaugh audience, is certainly able to keep all these topical fruit in the air at the same time.
So, Mark Davis, fill it in for Rush, and I'll be right back.
Now they're doing this just for me.
I'm sure Russia's fan of this as well.
You toss me down some deep purple highway star, and I am ready to roll.
Mark Davis in for Rush on a Friday.
From the same album that gave us smoke on the water, the greatness of machine head.
Okay, let's uh this is just really, really getting ugly.
And the the debate can be had about a Catholic university and whether what it stands for is tossed in the ash heap if a president with differing moral views sets foot on the campus, or delivers the commencement address, and gets an honorary degree.
So needless to say, Barack Obama's already head out there to South Bend next weekend, and there's a large group of people who are not thrilled, some of them at the Vatican.
One of the Vatican's highest ranked clerics and a frequent critic of President Obama, do you think, said today that Notre Dame is causing a scandal by giving the president an honorary degree and a platform to address graduates at its commitment next weekend.
The proposed grant here's the quote The proposed granting of an honorary doctorate at Notre Dame University to our president who is so aggressively advancing an anti-life and anti-family agenda is rightly the source of the greatest scandal.
This is Archbishop Raymond Burke, the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, which is the Vatican's highest court.
He used to be Archbishop of St. Louis and uh and a vocal opponent of giving communion to politicians who support abortion rights.
Remember this with John Kerry in 2004?
There was the question that was asked.
You know, if you're a and I I've asked it many, many times.
You know, maybe I don't know, either we either really want to do this or really don't want to do this next time I guest host, if in fact I ever do.
Uh and that is what is up with democratic Catholics.
I mean, how how exactly does that work?
How as Catholics, can you belong to a party one of whose basic tenets is to be cavalier about the unborn?
I mean, I I guess I don't uh what am I expecting?
For every Catholic to be a Republican?
I don't know.
I mean, I know there are Catholics who are liberal on certain things, and the Democratic Party would be their natural uh uh default setting.
But when you get to the unborn, I I'm just gonna say that oh boy.
Does Rush need these emails?
Can you be a Democrat and a Catholic in good standing at the same time?
Please you know, hey, please tell me how you can.
You have 35 minutes to for somebody to tell me how you can.
That way I will uh I will absorb I'll take that hit so that nobody calls Rush on Monday and says, What are you doing with the fill-in hosts?
So anyway, uh that's um so there's uh this amazing atmosphere of uh of tension that is uh that is developing toward this.
I I just don't even know how this is gonna go.
Because you you know what happened when the president wanted to go to Georgetown.
Uh they called Georgetown and said, Yeah, you know, the IHS thing, the Jesus uh imagery, uh yeah, you need to cover that up.
And I don't know what angers me more that the White House called and asked him to do it, or that Georgetown agreed to do it.
So, you know, there's Georgetown, there's Notre Dame, proud Catholic universities, uh willing to, you know, just give the back of their hand to some of the most basic things about their belief in order to uh in order to accommodate this president.
But as soon as I say that, I uh again, then you have to ask yourself, well, what?
So no Democrat president ever will get invited to Notre Dame ever.
Well, one possible answer is yeah, exactly.
So, you know, next question.
I mean, Carter was there, and and I and there is a way, I mean, I all want us to be able to, you know, in a way get along and have and and and when I say discourse or dialogue, there didn't need to be any discourse or dialogue uh between Notre Dame and President Obama on the subject of uh abortion.
Because uh uh Notre Dame ain't gonna change its mind, or shouldn't.
The Catholic faith ain't gonna change its mind.
And somehow I don't think President Obama is either.
So discourse is useless.
What you really have there is just shunting it aside, just shelving that.
It's like, okay, there's gonna be stuff we disagree about, but it's the President of the United States, and he's gonna come to our commencement, and that's lovely.
It's not like President Obama is gonna get out there at the commencement and uh and have a pep rally for partial birth abortion.
He's not there's no way you would touch any portion of that subject.
But uh the imagery, the significance of the thoughts in his head and the words that have come from his mouth.
Um taking the stage at this commencement and and getting the honorary degree.
That's um that's a whole other deal, man.
All right, uh, we're gonna move lightning fast here, uh, but let's let our first guy on here go to Mountainville, Pennsylvania, Bruce Mark Davis.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Understand you saw the movie and big thumbs up.
Good afternoon, Mark.
Yes, I did.
It was fantastic.
I loved it.
I will definitely see it again.
I watched the original series as a kid because I'm about the same age you are.
Mm-hmm.
Uh when I was overseas in the military, we actually would send home for it to have copies of it sent over to us.
On big clunky VHS tapes or what?
Well uh these were the military big Clunky VHS tapes, which were even bigger and clunkier than what most Americans are used to for VHS.
I mean, these things, they had to be like three inches thick.
Oh, that's wonderful.
Yes.
What's that?
What's that?
A missile launching device?
No, man.
No, it was it was it was very early stuff, and they used a three-inch wide magnetic tape.
But oh, I I loved it.
I will absolutely go see it again.
Now I saw it in IMAX, which and actually that was the first time I've ever been in an IMAX theater.
Yeah, I've done it a couple of and I got a scoot.
I've done that for a couple of things, like some wildlife thing at a local museum.
Uh the people are somebody else saw it in the IMAX.
Well, let me see how that works out for everybody.
Oh my.
Oh my.
Well, I've done it now, haven't I?
Mark Davis in for Rush, back with uh more of your calls coming up in just a month.
And but a slim half hour of that remains, and then the week is done, and uh into the weekend we go, and Rush returns on Monday.
I know I join a fellow fill-in host and yesterday's fill-in host, Mark Stein in thanking Rush for the opportunity to be here and thanking you for your accommodating us.
All right.
Um since the Star Trek floodgates are open and I've got to ask somebody about the whole IMAX thing, I am going to balance out this this unfettered dorkery with some actual news stories from the day and just sort of go back and forth and back and forth, whatever anybody wants to call them out, they may.
That that after all is the spirit of Open Line Friday.
1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
So what does Defense Secretary Robert Gates think about the um the flyover, the Air Force One photo shoot that scared the living daylights out of the city of New York a few weeks back?
Well, the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, has ordered a review of notification procedures for high visibility training events, such as the Air Force One photo shoot that flew over the Manhattan skyline last month.
Striking fear into the hearts of New Yorkers.
Now let's pardon right now.
Let's pause right now.
Pardon me.
Uh training events.
Um excuse me.
This was not a training event.
Uh this was an image event.
In a letter responding to a request by Senator John McKing, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Secretary Gates wrote that he was concerned that the public had not been adequately informed about the flyover.
Quote.
I am concerned that this highly public and visible mission did not include an appropriate public affairs plan, nor adequate review and approval by senior Air Force and Department of Defense officials.
Really?
Really?
So if they'd actually issued a news release, this would have been okay?
You have got to be kidding me.
This was a horrible idea from square one.
The minute, the minute someone, I don't know who, from the president on down to uh a White House janitor, the moment someone said, Hey, here's an idea.
Let's get a postcard style beautiful shot of Air Force One with the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop.
The minute someone said that, someone else in the room should have said, are you insane?
We're going to fly a jet over lower Manhattan at an altitude low enough to make the picture make sense.
We're going to do that.
What makes you think that there is any kind of public notification process that will insulate us from the certain panic that will ensue.
If it had been on every TV station in New York, Air Force One flyover just for pictures.
It ain't 9-11 again.
This time.
So don't worry about it.
It's just just a photo shoot.
They could have that that could have been uh on on, you know, every radio station, every TV station, every 10 minutes for a week leading up to the event.
And And let's say that would have blanketed, oh, I'm really going to be generous here.
75% of New Yorkers.
That still leaves 25% of millions of people who would have freaked out.
But you know, I I'm inclined to, you know, to have some respect for Defense Secretary Gates.
You know, he seemed like he was, you know, he wants to win the war, I guess, you know, right.
And that's lovely.
Um boy, that that returning um the returning coffins at Dover.
It's kind of funny.
Here it's it's like a similar theme.
Here's another thing that he was willing to uh to accommodate.
The minute, the minute someone said, hey, this was at a White House news conference.
The minute someone said, hey, let's start allowing video of our returning soldiers coming back in their coffins at Dover.
There is only one answer to that, and that answer is no.
For the dignity of the procedure, for the concerns of the families, and I love this.
They said, well, if the family says it's okay, we'll do it.
Well, guess what?
Excuse me.
Two reasons that's not okay.
Number one, nobody should be badgering the family.
You know, oh, please let us do it, please let us do it.
Come on, come on, come on.
We'll tell your son's story.
If it's the media badgering them or somebody else battering, oh, come on, let's honor your son by having that footage on CNN.
Nobody should no.
Just no.
And number two, and sorry about this, it's not just about them.
If, God forbid, and just and so that I don't seem like a complete, you know, heartless whatever, I'll put I'll make it about me.
And I believe you me, I don't enjoy saying this next paragraph.
God forbid, worst, no one would be prouder than if my son were to grow up and be in the military.
If God forbid he gives his life, well, he he dies.
I'd be proud that he gave his life for my country, but if God forbid he should die.
And his remains come back and come out the back of a transport plane at Dover.
I'm not the only person whose business that is.
It is the country's business.
And just because I have a moment where I might kind of think that I sort of like the footage of his returning remains to be on MSNBC, uh maybe we as a nation are not served well by the availability of this footage and the presenting of it to and then by a dominant media culture that lives to talk this war down.
It's not about me, it's not even about him.
It's about are the country's interests well represented by having uh this footage available for dissemination behind the heads of anchors who seek to make you feel as bad about the war as they do.
And if one more person steps forward and says, Oh, they're trying to hide the cost of war, hide the cost of war.
Who doesn't know the cost of war?
Who doesn't know?
You know, what who didn't know when the death toll hit 4,000?
I mean, it's like they were popping champagne corks at some media outlets.
All right, we got to 4,000.
Woo-hoo!
Chance for a new story to make people feel terrible about this war.
Who doesn't know the cost of war?
The notion that the visual imagery of flag-draped coffins must be presented so that we can appreciate the cost of war is one of the most vacant, ridiculous statements one can make.
You know what the real motivation is for the desire for this footage.
It is to add stigma so that people who want you to feel badly about this war can have a visual component to their propaganda.
Come on.
All righty, 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-282.
So I'm about I'm about lukewarm on Secretary Gates, who did not shut the door on that immediately.
Okay.
Taking a uh neck snapping turn.
Let's go uh hey, let's talk Star Trek on IVAX.
In fact, let's do.
Let's go to Nashville.
I want to talk to David because I think I've done, again, some wildlife planetarium movie or something, but an actual uh like Watchman or what uh Batman I think was in IMAX, I just think my neck would hurt.
I I don't know.
So let in Nashville, David, you saw it on IMAX and apparently just loved the living daylights out of it, eh?
Absolutely brilliant.
Three quick points I want to make on it.
I suffer from uh confession here.
I suffer from TD wee bladder syndrome.
So basically, once the credits start to roll on the movie, I start to worry about when I'm gonna have to go to the restroom.
Right.
And throughout this whole entire movie, I did not think about that once.
I mean, it sucks you in so much.
Point number two.
That's vivid.
I'm I'm uh I'm an employee, and every dollar counts.
So I have a choice between the half-price ticket versus the IMAC ticket, and I chose the IMAX not at all upset about it.
Point number three, uh, you talked about the sexual content of the movie.
Nothing to really be concerned about, nothing that you won't see on Days of Our Lives or any type of soap opera.
Uh my point exactly.
But I mean, go ahead.
I'm sorry, sir.
I mean, I said my point exactly, but I do understand.
It's that it's not like it's long or graphic or gratuitous.
But it does, but it keeps but it keeps a million people from bringing their seven-year-olds who probably would otherwise love to see the movie.
It's it's you know, you know, Mark, you you you could still bring your seven-year-old to see that.
Well, I'll check I'll check first.
If they've seen a billboard for uh whatever that that closing chain is Abercrombie and Fitch.
Yes, thank you.
If they've if they've seen that, that is worse than this two second glimpse, basically, that they'll say.
All right.
Well, well, David, thank you.
I got I got a scoot.
Uh but the So what we've learned here is David is such a devotee.
I mean, I love the franchise too, but it will not shut down my body function.
And see, that's I've never seen a movie that I like so much that I like that much.
I yearn for a movie I like that much, because I'm like because well, my first problem is the minute I arrive in the theater, uh I've got I've got that depth charged size uh Dr. Pepper.
Yeah, and I'm I'm I'm sucking that thing down through the previews.
So like him, uh when the credits roll, I'm looking for a bathroom.
Except in my case, it's the opening credits.
Well, that's too much information.
Mark Davis Infrarush, back in a moment.
From the vast hard drive of Mike Mamon's bumper tunes.
It's the ventures doing the Star Trek theme.
Who is the composer on that?
Was it like Alexander Courage or something like that?
I remember I remember that, and and who is DC Fontana, which struck me as a stripper name, but I think that was apparently I uh was it a dude?
Was it a guy?
I I got nothing.
I remember that from the credits, and I'm pretty geeked out for this movie now.
So as are apparently we all.
And in mixing uh in mixing up serious news with all of our fun and frolic on that, President Obama has announced a new scheme to that's a bold reporter.
A new scheme to use unemployment insurance as a springboard to get laid off workers back to work.
8.9% unemployment rate, okay.
And uh and is essentially vowing to retrain the unemployed.
Um the list the list of things, the list of things that this president wants government to do that are none of government's business.
It just grows by leaps and bounds.
Uh some of it is obvious, like it's not government's job to determine who the CEO of a car company is.
One of my favorite things though is is uh while we're talking jobs is job creation.
You know, government's going to create jobs.
What government it's not government's job to create jobs, except government jobs.
It is our job to create jobs.
It is your job.
It's the business you create.
It's the industries that we support with our money, the products and services that we choose in the marketplace.
You know, I mean, that's that's what creates jobs, not some magical wave of a wand uh from uh from a uh from the president.
I don't know.
Okay, let's uh let's get back to some more of your calls here.
1800 282-2882, 1800-282-2882.
And a c now that we're in the final segment, there truly are no rules now, and we're just tossing aside every bit of dignity.
Uh we might as well uh use the transport.
No, you know what let's do?
No, yeah, let's use the transporter materialization uh sound to go to the the remaining calls.
How's that working out?
Is that a good thing?
Always loved the transporter, man.
Big fan of the transporter.
Didn't they beam something onto the enterprise and it was inside out, its intestines fell out all over the floor and all of that.
Um got the bridge sequence.
Uh but you know the first you know what else I've got?
Just said since I have called up the uh my own personal hard drive of useless things.
I have the the the wonderful red alert.
There was nothing that that said it's time to panic, like the like the Starship Enterprise red alert uh horn.
And in order to give that limbaugh show style significance, I'm recommending, and Rush can either do this if he wants, or maybe just when I fill in, or just maybe I should just shut up and do it on my own show.
I'm thinking of having the red alert sound accompany any one of a number of pronouncements from this president.
Because obviously, if general purpose alarm is a proper reaction any time this president says or does anything, I believe that if we're all about uh, you know, uh informing the public and letting everybody know what to be wary of, I can do it.
It was some long and scholarly discourse, or I can do it with the Star Trek Red Alert Sound.
So it essentially would go something like this.
What it does not contain, however, is a single pet project, not a single earmark.
It has been stripped of the projects members of both parties found most objectionable.
I think that works.
I think that works.
I think we're on a summit.
1-800-282-2882.
Here, oh, this is mm-hmm.
You know what let's do?
Let me take the pause and come back, having wasted enough of your time.
Uh, there is a lady who has a daughter uh at Notre Dame.
And I would love to see what she thinks about uh the president's upcoming visit.
So let's do that, shall we?
Try to return some level of seriousness to the program.
Mark Davis filling in for Rush.
Thank you so much.
One more segment to go, and then it's weekend time, and Rush is back on Monday.
It's the EIB network.
You're right back.
Mark Davison for Rush Limbaugh, Rush is back on Monday.
As a talk show guy, we have many, many resources, um, often a research staff or the internet, or just a friend of yours for twenty some years who has your cell phone number.
When I was back thirty minutes ago riffing about the comedian who had talked about how irrascible Bones McCoy is, uh my buddy Kenny Bozak, who, oh, by the way, uh helms the morning show at uh Proud Limbaugh affiliate W R E C in Memphis, informed me that was indeed Jay Leno, so good.
I can I could sleep at night now.
Back back when Leno was funny.
Sorry.
That's unduly harsh.
Jay's still pretty good, isn't he?
How's that gonna work at 10 o'clock?
I'm in central time.
How's that gonna work at nine o'clock?
And Conan gets the tonight show.
Conan gets the tonight show, right?
He's arrived in life as much as one can arrive.
That's the good news.
Bad news is Jay will now be on earlier than you and absorb probably all the best guests.
So hey, Conan.
Let's go to um a turlock, California.
Sharon has a daughter at Notre Dame, and I would love to see through those both y'all's eyes how it's going as the as the Obama trip draws near.
Hi, Sharon.
Mark Davison for Rush.
Pleasure to have you.
Hi, Mr. Davis.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thank you.
Well, um just this morning there were about 40 to 50 people that were arrested on campus that were led by Dr. Alan Keyes.
Sure.
And um he it was just a peaceful protest.
They were arrested for trespassing.
But uh Alan Keyes has said that he will come back every day and and keep getting arrested until they fill up the South Bend jails until graduation.
Well, if there's a cup a number of things that that Alan loves, it's it's virtue, morality, and being arrested and attracting attention to someone.
And I and I love Alan, I love Alan.
But this is gonna be a real ground zero if that's if that term is usable anymore uh for this debate, and and rightfully so.
Notre Dame has, in a way, asked for it.
And I love Notre Dame and I and I have a huge respect for the Catholic faith.
And the enduring question is uh do I as a non Catholic, I may value the tenets of the faith more than the university does on this occasion in inviting such a radically radically anti life president.
Okay, not to bring down the room.
Thank you so much, thanks to Kit and Mike, and thanks especially to Rush.
It's always such a fantastic time.
And as we head into the weekend and uh Rush comes back on Monday to tackle all the issues that life hands him and then hands them to you.
God bless our country and our troops.
See you soon.
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