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Aug. 17, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 17, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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I want to go back on this $8,000 per person health care versus $6,000.
Whatever number they pull out of their hat that they were spending on health care.
That is a rhetorical trick that is to blur this whole thing because they are trying to make the case that they can provide this for free.
If they can convince a number of people that quote unquote the government's going to pay for it, therefore it's going to be free, uh, then they stand a better chance of getting this passed.
But that's what people are beginning to understand.
In addition to it not being free, there's all kinds of hideous stuff in it.
But the idea that you pay nothing for it, that a couple millionaires are going to get their taxes increased, and that your beloved government's going to cover it all.
How are they going to do that?
Going to reduce uh spending to $4,000 a year per person.
If so, who suffers?
Bottom line is we only spend money on the sick.
We don't spend it on the healthy.
If we're going to cut spending, we got to cut spending on the sick.
And I've got section 1233 here.
We had the call from the guy in Tulsa who said you're misrepresenting and maligning the death panel business.
Section 1233, House Bill, Advanced Care Planning, Excerpts, Pages 424 to 430.
I mean, I I've got some of this stuff highlighted.
Let me.
Here's here's uh section 4E, an explanation.
Well, it's not Section 4E, it's uh line f line four.
An explanation by the practitioner of the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice and benefits for such services and supports that are available under this title.
A program for orders for life-sustaining treatment for a states described in this clause as a program that ensures such orders are goes on and when you when you go through this, it sure sounds like a government panel is gonna be deciding a lot of stuff.
And it will.
There's no way around this.
But here's the insidious part of this.
The most insidious part of this, any government plan, any government plan, the vast medical expenditures in this nation become nothing more than a government budget item.
And this is what concerns me the most society-wise.
It will forever transform the relationship between Americans.
I mean, we're no longer individual citizens.
We're no longer consumers.
We will instantly become rivals.
We're going to become competitors vying against each other for precious health care dollars.
You're going to look at other people in your country, your neighborhood, your state, as rivals, as potential enemies in the competition for government health care dollars.
And this is often going to happen in life or death situations.
The old American live and let live attitude will be instantly impossible.
Social cohesiveness and civil society is going to be terrifically wounded.
In the end, every American is gonna resent or is gonna want to beat out every other American in the race for medicine.
And it's all gonna be it's me or him.
When you become nothing more than a budget item.
And that's all we'll be once the government takes over this, if they ever do.
And if you've ever paid attention to Congressman when they talk about budget items, if you've ever watched C-SPAN, you know, or listened to a markup on a bill.
The way they start talking about budget items is entirely impersonal.
And I don't want to be a budget item.
And I don't think any of the rest of you do either.
Back to the audio Sound bites.
Our old buddy David Brooks was back at it again on Friday night, the news hour with Jim O'Lara on PBS.
Jim Lara said to David Brooks of the New York Times.
He said this about President Obama and you.
That's what Lara said, and uh here is Brooks' reply.
He just tells a lot of whoppers now.
Now, believe me, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin are saying some things that are extremely off the charts untrue about the plan.
But I just wrote down some of the things Obama said today, which are whoppers.
He said everyone can keep the health care plan.
Well, the CPO doesn't say that.
Six million people are going to lose their plan.
Preventive care saves money.
That's not true.
It's going to cost ninety billion a year.
That's not true.
It's probably going to cost twice as much when it's fully implemented.
Government will be out of health care decisions.
Often, when I look at him, I think he's overpromising, just not as much as the other side, but to a significant degree.
Now that Brooks, when he starts to comment here, is telling a lot of whoppers now.
He's talking about Obama.
But then he has to throw in this.
Believe me, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin are saying some things that are extremely off the charts untrue about the plan, but I just wrote down some of the things Obama said today, which are whoppers.
You know, the I don't tell lies on this program.
It is not necessary.
I don't have to lie about my beliefs.
I don't have to lie about what liberals want to do.
I don't have to lie about what liberals say.
I don't have to make it up.
I do not make up one thing.
I do not lie.
I don't even exaggerate other than for the purposes of humor and satire.
I haven't said one lie about what Obama's plan is.
All we've done, as you well know, is try to get the word out about it.
David Brooks is a lying machine for crying out loud.
Look at look at how this guy was seduced by Obama.
And is only now starting to uh come around.
And the gratuitous slap at Sarah Palin.
And here comes another one.
This was Friday night on the Situation Room on CNN, Wolf Blitzer, talking to the uh the forehead Paul Bagalli, he says, I know you'll disagree on this because I want to move on, but we don't have a lot of time.
Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker, giving advice to Sarah Palin what to do in the coming months.
Write a book, become a regular commentator on TV, create a national project or center, work really, really hard.
Good advice for Sarah Palin from Newt Gingrich.
Give us the backstory, forehead.
He's trying to treat her like she's a serious person.
She's not.
She's about a half a whack job and does not have the intellectual heft of a New Gingrich or almost anybody else in the Republican Party.
And I think she's proved that.
I admire Newt Gingrich for pretending that she's a serious person, but Sarah Palin has proven herself to be famous.
All right, there's a piece in the Wall Street Journal.
Actually, the best of the web today, James Taranto.
And it is from August the 14th.
This is the 7th.
This is Friday.
If she is dim and Obama is brilliant, how did he lose the argument to her?
The first we heard about Sarah Palin's death panel's comment was in a conversation last Friday with an acquaintance who was appalled by it.
Our friend is not a Democrat partisan, but a high-minded centrist who deplores extremist rhetoric, whatever the source.
We don't even know if he has a position on Obamacare.
From his description, our friend, it sounded to us as though Palin really had gone too far.
A week later, it is clear that she has won the debate.
President Obama himself took the comments of Sarah Palin seriously enough to answer them directly in his so-called town hall meeting Tuesday at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Now, as we noted on Wednesday, he was callous rather than reassuring, speaking glibly to audience laughter about pulling the plug on grandma.
But the LA Times reports that Palin has won a legislative victory as well.
A Senate panel has decided to scrap the part of its health care plan in recent days, has given rise to fears of government death panels.
Senate Finance Committee taking the idea of advanced care planning consultations off the table.
The Palin claim about death panels was so widely discredited that the White House has begun openly quoting it in an effort to show the opponents of the health care overhaul are misinformed.
Now, you have to love that last bit, says Mr. Taranto.
The fearless independent journalists of the LA Times justify their assertion that the Palin claim was widely discredited with an appeal to authority.
The authority of the White House was just to say the other side of the debate.
Now you can't deny that you can't deny that Palin's reference of death panels was inflammatory, but another way of putting that is that it was vivid and attention getting or getting, and it was.
So she won the debate.
They've pulled it.
They think she's an idiot.
Actually, they don't.
Bottom line is they don't think Sarah Palin's an idiot.
They're scared to death of her.
She's the only candidate that fired up the Republican base at all in the 2008 presidential election.
And so they're doing everything they can to discredit her and ruin her.
I find it fancy.
The left will tell us who they fear the most.
They will tell us who on our side they consider the greatest threat.
Sarah Palin, electorally is who they fear the most.
And of course, they have been afraid of me for 21 years, and that will not change.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limboss sounding awesome from Los Angeles.
As long as I'm here, folks, it doesn't matter where here is.
Telephone number 800 two eight two two eight eight two from CNN Money.com.
China is on an oil buying binge.
Over the past few months at ChICOMS or its big government controlled oil firms have closed or floated a slew of deals in countries all over the world.
These deals have uh expanded the nation's oil reach and may one day position the nation to match the skills of Western oil firms.
The deals include a ten billion dollar loan at the ChICOMs extended to a Russian company in exchange for a guaranteed cut of that company's production.
But it doesn't end with loans.
Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that China National Petroleum Corporation is interested in buying all or a part of Argentina's YPF for 14.5 billion dollars, although a deal is far from certain.
It is clear, says this story, CNN Money.com, what the ChICOMs are doing.
They are stilting on a huge pile of cash.
They're using this as a buying opportunity, said Greg Pritty.
Now this, folks, when are we going to wake up here?
We are borrowing money from the ChICOM.
And why?
We are going in debt in part to build a bunch of worthless windmills.
And electric cars that nobody wants.
We're going all green.
We're going to come up with this new green technology, and we're going to create all of these new jobs.
Never mind that there hasn't been one created yet.
We've got to get rid of our use of oil.
It's destroying the planet.
It's causing global warming.
And meanwhile, the ChICOM, who also tell us screw you on Kyoto, screw you on carbon output.
They're out buying up as much oil as they can.
While we borrow money from them to invest in a bunch of energy options that are worthless.
But grief, you know, it is scary how dangerous these people are.
Scary how dangerous the people running this country are.
And here, Scientific American, a companion story.
Will electric cars wreck the grid?
We talked about this last week.
This is just another piece on it.
Plug in electric cars could destabilize the distribution of power.
Where do you think the electricity companies get the electricity?
Or the power to generate it.
They use heavy oil.
They use coal.
So you go out and you buy your electric mobile that you think gets 230 miles to the gallon.
By the way, do you know how the vault gets 230 miles a gallon?
One of the ways it happens is they drop it via parachute from the space shuttle.
I mean I just it just all of this is asinine.
So everybody's gonna go out and get an electric car, gonna plug it in, and we we're gonna our carbon emissions are not going to change at all.
Here's the story I mentioned earlier from the Boston Globe.
President shifts focus to renting, not owning, using four point two five billion to build affordable housing.
Haven't we been there and done that?
Didn't we do this with the subprime mortgage business under the guise of affordable housing, the Obama administration and a major shift on housing policy is abandoning the Bush vision of creating an ownership society.
Instead plans to pump $4.25 billion of economic stimulus money into creating tens of thousands of federally subsidized rental units in American cities.
I thought the stimulus about getting people jobs.
$4.25 billion into creating tens of thousands of federally subsidized rental units.
Don't we have those?
They're called housing projects.
I've always said the American dream should be a home, not home ownership, said Barney Frank, who is uh chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, one of the earliest critics of the Bush administration's push to put mortgages in the hand Barney Frank was one of the earliest critics of the Bush administration's push to put mortgages in the hands of low and moderate income people.
They've turned this into a Bush idea now that Barney Frank opposed.
So now it's upside down.
This is the Twilight Zone.
Here's Craig in Orlando of Florida.
It's a doctor.
Craig, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you today, Rush?
Yeah, I'm just fine.
Thank you, sir.
Just a quick comment.
I heard a caller earlier that called in to say that physicians are not compensated for discussing end of life issues, and that's simply not true.
I'm a heart failure specialist, I implant defibrillators, and that's a part of my conversation with each device and with each meeting.
It's part of our job.
It's what we do.
So when you have basically if if you're going to do um uh any kind of an operation involving the heart with a patient, you have to tell them what could happen.
Could happen and alternatives.
Uh defibrillators prevent uh sudden cardiac death in most individuals.
Well, the alternative to having a prophylactic defibrillator is to accept your time on God's earth when it comes.
Right.
And how much do you charge for this?
Whatever Medicare wants to honor me with.
Whatever Medicare wants to honor you with.
So what okay, so so what is your point?
You already get paid for end of blood.
Your point is what?
Oh, my point is that there's a lie out there that we have to have something new federally to compensate us to have these magical conversations.
When it's a part of routine clinical practice as it is, I don't understand why something new has to be created.
To make us or to regulate it?
I mean, I I just simple.
It it's well, what do you think?
I mean, that to me this answer is very simple.
I think it's controlled.
Government control.
They're already got the foot of the door that you and you just said whatever Medicare honors you with is what you get paid for these uh so-called counseling sessions.
But the clinical visit.
Yeah, well, but it it's okay, yeah.
Uh, but not that expensive.
No.
It's not as expensive as a procedure.
No.
But the But I don't understand why it has to be uh itemized unless there's something else that they want to do with it.
Well, that answers itself.
It answers itself.
It has to be itemized because they're going to be in on the decision.
Pure and simple.
That's that's that's what Obama wants.
Look at my friends.
Rom Emanuel has said that the most important thing in all of this, not the death panels, all the other rigamarole that's in it.
Rom Emanuel has said that the most important aspect here is for the White House, the executive branch, to take control over Medicare payments and Medicaid.
In other words, the House of Representatives right now decides via law and legislation, uh, Who gets what?
How much they get.
The White House wants total control of this.
That's and that's the area where the negotiation with the blue dog Democrats, that's that there's they're still not solved yet, and that's the sticking point for a lot of them.
The the uh the House doesn't want to give it up.
Pelosi doesn't care, but some of the blue dogs do, where Ram Emanuel wants the White House, i.e.
Obama and whatever medical panel he appoints to have that decision process.
So if you if you know that, and and Emmanuel has said it over and over, if you know that, then you start going to these end-of-life counseling sessions.
I mean, they can say they're not gonna pull the plug on grandma and all it, but they are.
You know, the dirty little secret is that people make the decision to pull the plug now, but they do it themselves.
I've I've told the story about my maternal grandmother who had a stroke.
And she was uh I it was a second one, and she was in a hospital, local hospital in Missouri.
And pretty much a vegetative state.
And and and the doctor talked to my mom and said, here's the reality of the situation.
But the decision's yours.
And uh my mother, you know, talked to me and wanted my thoughts.
I said, Mother, you I I don't know how you're gonna make the decision to kill your mother.
That's that's but if that's what you think you have to do, it's a vegetative state.
The doctor said there was no chance of improvement.
Uh I know they needed the bed for another patient.
That's the reality of the situation.
But the regard, the whole the conversation took place in private with the doctor and the family.
There was no Barack Obama or government acing the family out of the decision, which is what they want to do.
Quick time out here, folks.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, you remember Barack Obama assuring everyone that if you like your health care plan, if you like your doctor, you can keep it.
If you like your plan, you keep it.
If you like your doctor, you keep your doctor.
Do you remember Obama saying that?
Well, Friday in Belgrade, Montana at a town hall.
Everybody here who still has who has currently private insurance, you know, you would more than likely still be on your private insurance plan.
Well, now it's more than likely.
It used to be definitely, now it's more than likely.
And he's lying through his teeth about this.
You know, the I I am I actually kind of stunned at this White House.
They know that the bloom's off the rose here.
They know people know this isn't true.
They know this is one of the many reasons are showing up, people showing up opposing this, and yet they kill still keep saying it.
I don't know why.
They think they can get away with this.
Do they think Obama still has the gift?
Do they not see the poll numbers?
Because they know full well that people are going to lose their private insurance.
They know that's the objective.
And and now making a big deals with big pharma that's got the left all upset, that's extortion money.
Uh I I I just I don't I don't understand them.
Uh, they they um we always thought they were smarter than that.
This is really dumb to have him go out there and keep saying this.
Because it's it it it makes him look like he's detached from reality.
He has no clue what's going on.
Like he's just a robot, even programmed with whatever's on the teleprompter out there, or if it's not a prompter, and I've made him memorize it, he goes out and says it regardless of the reality.
These town hall performances are getting worse and worse and worse.
And he had a student at Colorado Springs just literally run rings around him on the specifics of private sector competition.
Obama was forced to agree with him, but we can do something about that.
We can do something about it.
Use the post office example again.
Which does not help his case.
Now, let's go to Sunday on uh this week uh with uh George Stephanopoulos Jack uh Jake Tapper filled in.
And Camphalene Sabilus, the hapless and clueless, a health and human services secretary was on there.
And Jake Tapper said, now look, that doesn't get into the whole issue of employers dropping health care coverage in general and all the people that'll be added to the roles, and I understand that, but how can the administration make the Promise that if you like your insurance plan, you can keep it when CBO and other analysts estimate that some people will be switched from private to public.
Well, I think Jake, if you if you think about a marketplace option and new plans being created in Toledo, Ohio, or in California or in Florida, the network of doctors is likely to be pretty identical.
A lot of plans exist in the same marketplace, and doctors are part of a variety of networks.
So the idea that you would keep your own doctor is highly likely.
That's highly likely again.
It used to be automatic.
It used to be definite.
Now it's highly likely.
And by by the way, I have a question.
All these state-run media people, from NPR to CNN to uh MSNBC say that I am racist, that I am sponsoring racist behavior by by ginning up opposition to Obama's health care plan.
The CBO has come out and said your plan is going to break the bank.
Your plan is not what you say it is.
Is the CBO racist?
Is everybody who criticizes Obama racist?
Because the CBO has Congressional Budget Office.
I'll tell you, when they that that racist charge, they're trying to change the subject, that means they're losing the argument.
It's an old play, out of the playbook, and it hasn't worked.
And yet they keep trying to make it work.
It ain't gonna work.
Where do we go?
Virginia Beach next.
Chip, your next EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Uh Rush, uh, an honor and a pleasure to speak to you.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
I'm I'm not nervous.
It's like talking to an old friend, like talking to my friend Wayne on the phone.
I appreciate that.
You're you're welcome, sir.
Um I was calling about uh the fellow from Boston that called up to take you to task about the uh the removal of the end of life counseling.
Uh uh I didn't make this point with uh your your screener, but the previous doctor did.
I I think hospice care is available in in Medicare, and certainly end of life counseling is part and parcel of hospice care.
Yeah, my mother, my mother got hospice care.
My mother when she had uh uh uh terminal cancer uh and it was and she was on Medicare.
Uh so yeah, it it it it happens.
Absolutely.
But but but his point was not the one it was part of what it was, but what really had him fired up was that by that going away, the government paying for it was going away.
That's the his enthusiasm for that program seemed to me to be that somebody else was going to pay for it.
Yeah, exactly right.
That's the whole notion that that that's how they're using uh or how they're trying to sell this whole thing.
That is not gonna cost anybody in the any the beloved government's gonna do all of this.
And and of course it's it's that's not possible.
But I don't think that's even working anybody.
You're right, that's why the guy loved it, because the government was gonna start paying for it in Toto, as though that was somehow justice.
And I I asked him, well, whatever happened, the concept of paying for it yourself.
Well, they it with a great group of people, the fact that the government the the point that that the government is us and it's our pockets that are going to get empty to pay for this doesn't dawn on them.
Maybe they come back to, well, i it will cost somebody else more than it will cost me.
But but while I was sitting here listening, if I could make one last point.
Yeah.
And and this may be an overlist overgeneralization.
But you know, in life, it's kind of truth and fiction, and and in life, it it's not so much who is saying it, but what is coming out of their mouth.
And over the course of time, people and businesses either continue to make an engender and build credibility, or they continue to just blow it and lose their credibility.
The one of the reasons, the reason for your growth and success has been everything that comes out of your mouth is credible and true.
And you can understand it just kitchen table economics.
And whatever the reason for the anger at these town meetings is when uh these politicians, dingle and and conners and all the rest of these people get up there and say things, it just makes no sense.
It has no credibility.
It's even worse.
So by the way, thank you very much, but it's even worse than that.
In addition to them not knowing what's in the legislation versus the uh uh degree of education their constituents.
They then tell constituents, no, that's not true.
That's not in the bill.
You don't know what you're talking about.
That's innuendo.
That's rumor.
That's that's a vile rumor that's going around.
But see, you make a good point because Obama had that.
Obama had the exact kind of credibility you're talking about.
He in fact it was magic.
He was so good that at gift, he had so much credibility that it it was uh almost like a cult with a whole lot of his voters.
But his problem was he was speaking in platitudes.
He would do generalities and very few specifics.
He would just talk about we're gonna end disagreements, we're gonna have unity, we're gonna get rid of the blue state divide.
We're gonna lower the sea levels, we're going to save the earth.
We are going to have a new era of economic prosperity in this country.
All of these wonderful platitudes.
But then came the specifics.
So you match up what happened with the stimulus bill with the platitudes, and they don't go together.
There aren't anything but three million jobs lost.
There aren't any jobs created.
They're now having to resort.
I've got some stories here in the stack, they're having to resort to saying a stimulus worked by saying, look at all the jobs it saved.
Look at all the layoffs that haven't happened.
Well, there's no way to calculate layoffs that haven't happened and make it sound successful, but that's what they're reduced to doing.
So then came, well, even the bailouts, uh bailing out General Motors, all it ended up with the government owning it.
With Obama firing the CEOs.
So, and now we see Obama attacking the American people right out of the Oval Office and right out of it with a snitch website.
So all of those wonderful platitudes.
You remember people were actually saying, folks, in the media, well, we've never had anybody like this before.
There's never been anybody like this in American politics.
And the American people, enough of them, a number of them, yeah, because most people are disgusted by politics.
Most people look at these town halls and they think that's what politics every day is.
A bunch of lying, conniving members of Congress who will say anything to get constituents off their back, head back to Washington and do whatever they want to do, and somehow getting rich personally in the process.
And we had somebody who was going to come along and just be something unlike anything we've ever seen.
Now, what do we learn?
What do we learn?
We have we have discovered that this is the most radical of what we have always had.
The platitudes do not match the specifics.
We've lost three million jobs.
There is no sign that that is slowing down.
There is no sign it's going to change, and the more Obama takes over the private sector, the fewer opportunities for private sector jobs there will be.
We don't see signs of economic growth.
We don't see upbeat attitudes, and we don't see any inspirational positive attitudes from people.
It's still very negative.
Meanwhile, Obama's out there still speaking in these platitude generalities.
We're going to rebuild our economy.
It's going to take some time, but we're going to make it stronger than ever so that this never happens again.
Right now, people aren't worried about it happening again.
They want this over with.
And they're learning more and more that the thing standing in their way is Barack Obama and his administration and Democrat Party policies.
They are not helping.
They are not fulfilling any of the promise.
So Obama has a credibility problem.
And the more he goes out and does these town hall meetings and appears as detached from reality as he is.
They keep using this post office example and to keep saying you get to keep your doctor and your insurance plan.
Well, now it's highly likely you'll be able to.
Whatever the gift was, it's gone.
And we have your standard run-of-the-mill politics.
Stop and think of this.
Think of all the popularity this guy had.
Think of the trust.
Think of the hope that was invested in this guy by the people that voted for him.
That previous caller right on the money with his whole notion of credibility...
And trust.
And Obama has squandered.
He has squandered an amazing amount of it.
And it's it's now every issue that matters to him, he's losing big in the polls.
And look at this.
Look at this headline from Politico.
GOP gains steam as health bills sputters.
Representative Mark Kirk, whose uh Senate campaign in Illinois has many Republicans eyeing a pickup, said Republicans have quickly recovered their voice.
Republicans have recovered their voice.
Let's be clear what's happened here.
Conservatives and a liberty-centered message have prevailed in this argument.
The Republicans didn't counter Obama care.
Um the Republicans uh they they their their counter was was with a version of Obama's premise.
What's happened here is that conservatism is causing the Republican Party to get some credit here for whatever uh gaining steam.
Now there are a lot of good conservatives in the Republican Party in elected positions, don't misunderstand.
Uh but it is a conservative liberty-centered message that is prevailing in this argument.
A substantive real message over a scam.
Something that is widely seen as a scam.
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Who's next?
John in Cape Coral, Florida.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Uh thanks for taking a call, Rush.
Uh, I'm just livid about this.
I'm gonna really try to be brief.
I have uh 85-year-old mother-in-law that retired from the state of Illinois uh university system.
She uh was employee there.
Uh she had uh carry has always carried the state of Illinois health insurance program.
It's administrated by a private uh Cigna uh insurance.
Now uh she's she's had some real bad problems, heart attack, stroke.
She can't care for herself.
We got her in our house now.
We're caring for her uh for the last six years.
My wife.
You know, I didn't look at the clock when I took your call.
I'm down to about 30 seconds.
What did they what'd the government fail?
Bottom line is on the bills now.
They weren't paying the bills, and now it says the state of Illinois uh health insurance program is out of funds, and anything over Medicare payments, she has to pay.
Even though, even though she was insured, even though she had the insurance and she thought it, they still decided they ran out of money.
And by the way, we are out of money now.
The federal government is in deficit big time.
I gotta take a break.
We'll be right back.
Stay with.
And we are back just in enough time to say we gotta go.
And remember now we got Mark Stein in uh tomorrow.
I've got to go by and tape uh or lay down the audio tracks, included sing a song for the upcoming episode of Family Guy, in which I star.
But we'll be back Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
It'll all be done.
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