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Dec. 24, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 24, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Obama's blue ribbon deficit panel can't even come to an agreement.
They couldn't even agree on their own plan, folks.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I mean, for the last week, everybody has been breathlessly awaiting whatever this bunch comes up with, right?
For the last month, they've been waiting half breathlessly.
This week, everybody has been panting, eagerly awaiting whatever magic will come from Obama's blue ribbon deficit reduction at the uh commission.
This is Alan Simpson and Irkson Bowles.
And they could not even agree on their own plan, which just goes to show, ladies and gentlemen, that what we have proposed, 10% across the board is the only way to go.
Everything else just gonna be argued at infinitum.
Just cut everything across the board 10%.
It can be done.
It's easily done.
I mean, if you just ignore the caterwalling, ignore the screaming, ignore the yelling, ignore the pe the people who ostensibly will be in pain, because everybody's gonna get cut 10%.
Anyway, great to have you open line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone for yet another excursion into broadcast excellence.
Here's a phone number, 800 282-2882.
Email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
You people on the phones out there, you're not on the phone yet because Snerdley hasn't started answering.
When you do, I am I am zapped.
I am worn out.
The clock went off to well, not a clock doesn't wake me up.
The sun wakes me up whenever it I just uh could not get out of bed.
I mean, it was a struggle.
It was and I still no, I was not up all night again.
I went to bed relatively early, like at midnight.
I I I could put my head down on this desk right now and fall asleep.
I uh and if I were like half the people working in this country had to call in sick.
But I'm here uh doing open line Friday.
Yep, the commission members said that by winning over an 11-7, they needed 14 votes.
They needed 14 votes and they got 11.
Needed 14 votes to agree on this plan, and the commission members said that by winning over an 11-7 majority on the panel for its blueprint that they had defied expectations.
They failed and they defied expectations.
If this isn't Washington speak, I don't know what is.
You talk about having low expectations.
The expectations here were to fail.
And they did, and they're clapping their hands over it.
Uh Andy Stern voted no.
The SEIU guy, you had uh Dick Turbin on there.
I don't know how he voted.
He voted yes.
Regardless, here's here's the way the Wall Street Journal blurbed it in an alert.
The uh deficit cutting plan by President Obama's budget commission failed to win the 14 votes needed to trigger congressional action.
The plan won support from 11 of 18 members, 14 were needed for official approval.
Still commission co-chair Irksum Bowles of Naukelana declared victory.
I wish life were that easy.
Yeah, Snerdley, can you imagine if it ever happened?
Hey, folks, guess what?
I just have to say we lost half our audience in the latest ratings report, and we're winning.
Can you imagine the Chutzpa?
What, Snerdly?
Well, no, I know we can't imagine it happening.
No, of course.
And B, it wouldn't, it wouldn't, it wouldn't be our response.
It's my whole point.
If it did happen, and I were to say, hey, we're winning big.
We just lost half everything.
So Irks and Bulls here declares victory, saying the panel's nonpartisan deliberations showed that it is possible to have an adult conversation about cutting the deficit.
What was it worth?
What was this adult conversation worth?
Who's buying the drinks?
That's something Simpson babe's always talking about.
Who's buying the drinks?
Considering the breadth of the recommendations, ranging from an overhaul of the tax code to aggressively cutting spending to widespread changes of social security.
Many economists concluded the commission served its purpose.
I wish it were this easy.
The commission served its purpose.
This commission was a fraud from the get-go.
Any commission that has as its objective a plan to reduce the deficit and does not even include Obamacare in the discussion cannot be taken seriously.
Adult conversation.
Why, those are nothing new.
We had plenty of those during the Clinton years.
They generally involve pizza deliveries and then trips to the little bathroom off of the uh, well, the study off of the uh off of the Oval Office.
I mean, this this whole thing is Saturday Night Live skit material.
This whole Wall Street Journal report declared victory.
Uh many economists concluded the commission served its purpose by having an adult conversation.
And oh, let's go to the audio sound bites while uh we have a chance here.
Now, this is not related to the deficit commission, but the certifiably insane Alan Grayson, Democrat congressman from Florida who was defeated in November, went to the floor of the House yesterday to speak out against extending the Bush tax rates.
And he did so, he led off by having a picture of me.
Big picture of me on an Easel, that picture of me out at Pebble Beach in a golf tournament, big smile on my face with a giant stogie coming out of my mouth.
And this is what, and then after me he did Beck and he did Hannity, and he went on down the list.
And here's what he said leading off this discussion about me.
Let's take a look at the people who are really in charge, the ones who actually run the Republican Party.
Let's start with this gentleman here.
The man with the cigar, Rush Lambaugh, doesn't he look happy?
According to Newsweek, he makes $58.7 million a year.
And extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich will mean that he'll have another $2.7 million.
Mega Ditto's rush and mega money.
Now, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I I play this only for the opportunity to correct a popular misconception uh about all this.
And of course, this is Newsweek's figure.
58.7.
I don't know where they got the point seven.
It's actually point nine, but who's splitting hairs?
The bottom line here is this the Bush tax rate maintaining them doesn't mean I'm gonna get anything additional.
It means I'm not gonna lose any of it.
Now, this is the what are you laughing at it?
This is a serious point that I'm trying to make here on open line frightening.
This is a popular misconception.
This is how these guys are doing it.
These guys are suggesting that any of you who uh are are are uh quote unquote rich are gonna somehow get a windfall of new money thrown in your lap if the Bush tax cuts are extended, and that's not the case.
Nothing's gonna change.
The only thing is gonna change is I won't lose the 2.7 million.
If the Bush tax cuts are not extended, I will lose that.
It's not that I'm gonna gain that much, it's not that this so-called 58.7's gonna become sixty-three or whatever, it's not the case at all.
What's at stake here is it's a 58.7 gonna become 55.
I'm just using the number Newsweek used.
Let's forget the number, it's not the point.
The what what now what are you laughing at?
Now, what is so funny?
A man in charge of the Republican Party.
Well, that's just that's just that's just grayson.
But you understand my point here?
You guys are sitting in there laughing.
This is a very serious subject.
We're talking about the Bush tax rates.
You're sitting in there laughing, and I'm trying to make a brilliant point here to people.
You know, the the we'll put, yeah, we've put the picture's been up on the website countless times.
It's an AP picture.
It's no you've seen it.
It's not a it's not a new picture.
But at any rate, for anybody who uh over 250,000, the idea that if the Bush tax cuts, Bush tax rates are extended somehow, we get a windfall.
It's not the case whatsoever.
If this is all about whether or not the government's gonna get that 2.7 million, as they say in my case.
It's not about and this is this is how the Democrats have always used this class envy stuff as a means of securing uh opposition to the whole notion.
And wait till you hear the sound bites coming up, folks, about unemployment and tax cuts and tax increases.
Wait till you hear it.
I mean, it's getting more absurd by the day, as the Democrats keep talking about it.
We'll get to all that.
Plus the unemployment number, 9.8%.
Now, this is very timely.
See, I can't help but look at this stuff as a cynic.
9.8% is going to facilitate the discussion of extending unemployment benefits.
It is also going to give Obama and whoever else needs it cover to go along with the idea of temporarily extending the Bush tax rates.
That 9.8%.
Who would have ever thought the number would have gone up after the election?
I ask cynically.
I went up by the way we added 39,000 jobs.
Now, want you to stop and think of that.
We've had people try to tell us this week the economy is starting to boom, starting to recover.
In the United States of America, we added 39,000 jobs.
That is such a small number that it is impossible to represent statistically.
That's less than one-tenth of one millionth of one percent.
39,000 jobs in the United That's so small, I don't even know how you calculate.
That's that's that's a rounding error.
My point is that's horribly, horribly poor.
That 39,000 jobs, that's not worth talking about.
That's I mean, that's that's an accident.
This is this is uh this is bad news.
And guess what?
Guess what?
As the imp as the economy picks up, if it picks up, this is going to cause more people to start looking for work again.
And you know what's going to happen?
The unemployment rate is going to go up because more people will be counted.
Right now it's 9.8% or under 10%, because so many people have dropped out of the market for a job.
They're not even looking for one.
And that's how come that percentage is 9.8% or yeah, that the U6 number is probably closer now to 18%.
As the economy picks up, if it does, when it does, is going to happen at some point.
More people, upon hearing the economy's coming back, will start looking for work.
That will expand the pool of people looking for jobs, but the number of jobs created will lag behind the number of people who want them, obviously.
So the unemployment rate could be 10% by January.
Could be 10% by February.
What's a question?
The official program observer has a question.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
I have been asked by the official program observer, Japan's recession lasted for decades.
Could this go on that long?
It could.
It very easily could go on that long.
In fact, I got a soundbite with Austin Goolsby being asked if this is the new norm.
And while saying I hate discussions of the new norm, yes, it's the new norm.
Austin Goolsby, I mean, he's now marginally less sissy looking than Julian Assange.
And he was out there in front of the White House today talking about it.
Well, we got a great soundbite roster here today.
We really do.
So we'll we'll take a break here.
We'll come back and get started with all.
And by the way, we we are doing exactly what Japan did economically.
If we don't alter what we're doing, we could see years and years and years of this stuff.
Now stop and think, let me put this in perspective for you another way.
We all know that there are fixes for this.
We all know we've done two years of Obama and the liberal way of trying to so-called fix the economy, grow the economy, create Jobs.
We all know that it hasn't worked.
All this government spending, all this debt, it hasn't worked.
We're now at 9.8% unemployment.
The alternative, conservatism, constitutional conservatism, smaller government tax cuts, get out of the way of small business creating jobs, that would work.
Obama and the Democrats won't dare allow it to work because if it did, if they did, they would end up being discredited.
The biggest obstacle to this country getting back on track is the Democrat Party.
And until they are out of the way as a majority, we're not going to fully recover.
The last thing in the world Obama needs is for something he has been arguing against to work.
And conservatism works every time it's tried.
Lower marginal tax rates work every time they're tried.
Capital gains, marginal rates, whatever.
They work when you lower them every the marginal side, they work every time it's tried.
And if they were tried now, it would also work.
That would discredit Obama the Democrats, and that's why it won't happen.
So this nation's recovery, economic recovery, the well-being of this nation's citizens is second fiddle, is placed on the back burner, subordinated, if you will, subordinated to the notion that Obama's way must not be shown to be a failure.
So Obama at the Democrats, in order to preserve their whole identity, must, by definition, oversee the nation plunging into a further economic abyss.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
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Societal Evolution.
Open line Friday.
Provided Snerdley gets some good ones, we'll go to the phones early in today's program.
You're gonna hear in just a moment on the audio soundbite roster, Austin Goolsby, even topping Pelosi with his claim that unemployment benefits grow the economy, and that they grow the economy even faster.
Even better if they aren't paid for.
If they just add to the deficit, so it's Keynesian.
So all the unemployment benefits, just more spending with nothing to back it up.
That's better for the economy than anything.
Meanwhile, the cold and and and hungry in Atlanta in Georgia are huddling, trying to find assistance for the cold in Obamaville, reminds us of what happened in Detroit a year ago.
Just amazing.
All this suffering, all this pain was supposed to be eradicated, supposed to be wiped out, and it's only getting worse, and now we're being told it's a new normal.
Quick question: how many liberals, this is about the tax rates, the Bush tax rates, how many liberals the past ten years have paid their income taxes based on the Clinton tax rates?
Because that's what we're talking about returning to.
If the Bush tax rates are not extended, we'll go back to the Clinton tax rates, 39.6 for the Tupper the uh upper bracket.
Now, how many liberals are paying that?
Did uh did Bill Gates pay that rate?
Warren Buffett?
What about Pelosi and her husband or Harry Reid Obama?
They pay that rate.
Are they willingly paying that rate?
Is my point.
Are they showing leadership by paying the rate that we want that they want to take us back to?
How many liberals the past 10 years have paid their income taxes based on the Clinton tax rate?
I dare say none of them.
I dare say that all liberals have been paying their taxes based on the Bush tax cuts.
And they say the rich have got to go back.
Did Charlie Wrangle pay that rate?
They censured Charlie Wrangle yesterday.
They didn't even, part of Censure is reading all the charges, all the transgressions.
Pelosi does this after six o'clock.
She doesn't even read the entire list.
This is the first censure in 30 years, although I should say that Randall Duke Cunningham is in jail for doing essentially that which Wrangle did.
The only difference is that Duke Cunningham, a war hero, is a Republican.
And unlike Wrangell, Duke Cunningham didn't constantly run around talking about and reminding everybody that is a war hero.
Pelosi read just one charge after 6 p.m. yesterday, so that would not make the traditional nightly news.
She read one charge out of 11.
The penalty calls for having all charges read.
After she read the charge, and you'll hear this on the sound bites coming up.
After she read all the charges against Wrangle, he got a standing ovation.
From the well, might be a stretch to say a standing ovation, but the Democrats in the House gave him a resounding ovation.
I don't know if they stood up or not.
That would require energy.
But he got a lot of applause.
And wait till you hear what compiled list of headlines in advance of the unemployment number.
All these news agencies were expecting it to fall.
It's hilarious.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Open line Friday.
Let me remind you again, open line Friday, you can talk about anything for the most part.
Monday through Thursday, you got to talk about things I'm talking about, things I care about, or you won't get past snerdily.
But on Friday, whatever you want to add, that has it had to have nothing to do with politics, anything to do with current events, whatever you want to ask me, or whatever you want to say, feel free.
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Want to go back to this program.
I predicted this whole notion, 9.810% unemployment would be the new normal.
And there was a lot in this prediction.
August 16th of this year.
This is me on my own program.
I'll tell you what the new normal is.
No, the new normal is simply a construction designed to save Obama and the Democrats from any association with this economic collapse.
Calling this a new normal is simply say, hey, this is not the result of any Democrat policy.
This is not the result of Obama nomics.
No, this is just America.
And by golly, by gosh, Obama's doing the best he can with it, but he's only got so much to work with.
A new normal, I mean, it's what it is.
This is not the result of bad economic policy.
This is not the fault of Obama.
New normal is defining the Obama depression down.
This is ridiculous.
And you as a citizen ought not settle for the idea that this is America going forward.
That this is the new normal, because I'm telling you right now it's not.
All this quote unquote new normal is an excuse.
It's giving Obama and the regime a pass.
We've gone from optimism to opticism.
And opticism, the optics, how it looks.
It's just the new normal.
Anybody who was optimistic at Obama's stimulus program, those are the people who need to be cast away.
Those are the people need to be ignored.
These Keynesians, oh yeah.
This is the way they said.
This is what we have to do.
This will create jobs shovel ready, all that rot gut we now know 20 months, it's all a bust.
All the bailouts, all the stimuli have failed, and so now what we have a new normal.
Yeah.
This is it, folks, get used to it.
This is the new America in decline.
And it's just coincidental that it happened when the Obama regime took office.
To give you an idea of how poorly Keynesian economics worked, the stock market never reached its 1929 peak until 1954.
Now let me put this in perspective for you.
We tried Keynesian stimulus policy.
FDR, the New Deal.
That's going to bring us down to the 1929 depression.
Guess what?
We didn't reach stock market peaks that were existed in 29 until 1954.
It only took 25 years to get back to where we were in 1929 with Keynesian stimuli.
So the new normal means if you're not happy, tough toenails.
If you're not happy, lower your expectations, because this is it, baby.
New normal is designed to get you to give up.
New normal is a creation to get you to go ahead and accept mediocrity in your country.
While Obama presides over the decline.
So today on MSNBC, more proof.
This morning on Jansing and company.
The host Chris Jansen and White House Council of Economic Advisors Chairman Austin Goolsby have this exchange.
The longer this recovery takes, the slower it goes.
Does it increase the chance that a high unemployment number will be the new normal?
I don't buy into the new normal, but I do think you're highlighting a critically important issue that that of long-term unemployment.
Whether it's simply extending the tax cuts and the unemployment and benefits to maintain the demand in the short run uh before Christmas, I think we've got to keep an eye on the long-term unemployment problem, and it's one of the critical issues we face.
What did he say?
What did he just say?
He said Zilch Zero, not a I don't buy in the new normal, but I do think you're highlighting something here.
Whether it's extending tax cuts in the unemployment and benefits to maintain the demand and that this is goblety gook.
And this is a chief.
This is the head honcho.
Jansing then said the worst numbers in seven months.
More than 15 people who would like to get work cannot find a job.
Now that we're 17 months into this recovery, what do you think is going on here?
It's certainly below what was expected.
collectively we've seen some progress in the economy, but it's got to be way more.
It's got to be well faster, and we've got to grow out of this.
It is absolutely imperative that we extend the middle class tax cuts, not just the Bush tax cuts, but also the Obama cuts, and that in an environment like this, people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own and who are searching for new work, you cannot go yank the rug out from under them and end the unemployment benefits.
Well, let me ask you about that.
Let me ask you about that.
Again, we're we're getting gobbledygook here.
The Obama cuts and that in an environment like this, people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own and who are searching for new work, you can't go yank the rug out from under them and the unemployment benefits.
You can't yank the rug out from under them and the unemployment benefits.
What is he saying?
This guy is wandering in vain for a cogent thought.
So Chris Jansing, who I'm sure understands everyone.
I'm sure this is making total sense to her.
So let me ask you about the proposition specifically because they're huddling.
Maybe even as we speak, representatives in the White House, the Republicans trying to figure out how to move forward on the economy.
The deal seems to be shaping up as this.
Democrats are okay an extension of tax cuts for the wealthy if they get those things that you just talked about, including the extension of unemployment benefits.
If that is what it ends up being, is that a net gain or a net loss for the economy?
What is critically important right now is that for the ninety-eight percent of people that are looking at having their taxes go up that we extend those tax cuts, that borrowing 700 billion dollars to extend tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.
There's not a big rampant unemployment problem up among the billionaires.
This guy's clueless.
He cannot even make the case for his side.
He can't this he he can't even do the propaganda right.
I mean, this is hilariously funny because this guy is totally incompetent.
Borrowing $700 billion to extend tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.
That that's his version of extend those tax cuts, the Bush tax rates, the millionaires and billionaires is going to cost the economy 700 billion dollars.
And here comes a schlub worrying about borrowing money.
700 billion dollars, we've got a deficit of 1.6 trillion.
So clearly, class envy politics is all this is this is not about growing the economy.
It's not about getting jobs going and creating jobs for people.
I that this is just glaring incompetence right in front of our very eyes.
Let's uh let's go to the phones.
People patiently waiting.
Open line Friday, we always try to get to the phones in the first hour of the program, and we start in Sparks Nevada with Dave.
Thank you, sir, for calling your up first.
How are you doing, Rush?
This is a grand pleasure for me, and I've been listening to you on KOH Radio ever since you first started in Sacramento.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Well, then you were around when we had to ban calls from Reno for a while.
Oh, yeah, I remember that too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was back in the early days of the program.
Uh yeah, it was a it was a it was a sordid circumstance back then we had to ban calls, but it didn't it ended up helping the situation.
It worked.
What I wanted to tell you, Rush, is uh, you know, I've been uh a veteran and uh I've been a truck driver, I'm retired now.
And but I I'm so sick and tired of ten percent of the public paying for all the taxes.
I got tax cuts uh quite a few years ago.
I never made over thirty thousand dollars in my life, and I just am sick and tired of not being able to pay taxes because I was proud to pay taxes.
And I still think everybody should pay 20 percent, and that's the way it should be.
Yeah, you're talking that this is the skin in the game argument that you're talking about.
Yeah, if everybody pays taxes, everybody feels responsible for government, and they they're not spending somebody else's time.
Well, that used to be how it is.
Used to be how it was.
Uh, not so much anymore.
But well, his he's talking about the latest tax foundation numbers, essentially 10% of income taxes are being paid by 68, 70 percent of the people.
But everybody's paying taxes.
There are their payroll taxes, uh, Medicare tax, and so forth.
Income tax, yeah, about half the country or close to it, is not paying income tax.
And the uh and and and interestingly, those are the people who are the targets of what Obama and Goolsby are talking about.
The middle class taxes, we gotta make sure the middle class, very few of them are actually in when it comes to income taxes, are paying that much.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Dave.
Thanks much.
A brief timeout, my friends.
Back with more right after this.
Welcome back.
Rushly bought talent on loan from God.
Happy to have you along.
The latest figures are 10%.
The top 10% pay 70% of all income tax.
Top 10% of wage earners, I don't care who they are, pay seventy percent of all income tax.
And those are the kind of taxes we're talking about here.
The Bush tax rates deal with income.
There's also by well, not just that, there's capital gains, the capital gains rates on the table as well.
In fact, there's a uh an interesting story here about all the other taxes that are on the table and all the chaos waiting to happen.
It's yeah, it's from the Washington Whisperers uh section of New U.S. News and World Report.
This is uh this is Mort Zuckerman owns this magazine, right?
Failure by Congress to extend the Bush tax.
By the way, have you noticed just just this week?
Now they're starting to talk about the Obama tax cuts as well.
That's you know what that tells me they're gonna extend these things.
It's a done deal, folks.
Done deal.
The Bush tax rates are gonna be extended for everybody because they're throwing Obamas in there now.
Goolsby just talked about it.
Somebody else this week.
Uh Obama did himself, and of course, our our tax cuts.
So now uh there this is a this is a uh uh a recognition, the political popularity of tax cuts and extending them now.
And so Obama wants to get in on the action.
And his uh his base, the Kook fringe leftists, are fit to be tied.
That Obama is caving on this.
They're fit to be tied that we still got Gitmo open.
They're fit to be tied that Obama upped troop levels in Afghanistan and he is over there to uh visit the troops.
They can't believe any of this.
They can't believe anything that's happened here other than health care, and they're not happy about that because it didn't happen soon enough.
U.S. News and World Report delaying tax vote could crash stock market.
Failure by Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts, especially locking in the 15% capital gains tax rate, will spark a stock market sell-off starting December 15th, as investors move to lock in gains at a lower rate than the 20% it would jump to next year, warn analysts.
Well, it's unclear how bad the sell-off could be, it could wipe out the year's gains.
Capital gains tax rate will increase from 15 to 20 percent if the tax cuts aren't extended.
The last time the capital gains tax rate increased, January 1st, 1987, from 20 to 28 percent.
Investors realize their gains at the lower tax rate.
This is some Daniel Clifton, Washington partner at Strategis Research Partners.
We would expect a similar effect this time around as investors see the tax rate going up and choose to realize their gains and incur the 15% tax.
What he means is that people sell their stocks before December 31st.
At the 15% rate, rather than the 20% rate.
I'll tell you something else is going to happen.
The people in a position to are going to shift as much income from next year into this year to take advantage of the the uh current tax rates, so they don't have to pay income next year on the new tax rates.
You'll have people like Michael Eisner back in 1993.
Michael Eisner's dumped like 195 million dollars in Disney shares.
He's the chairman to take advantage of the current tax rates to beat the Clinton tax increases up to 39.6.
Now, when that happens, that's gonna have uh a deleterious effect on economic activity next year as well, because money and economic activity normally would take place in January, February is going to take place in December of this year.
So the year-end report, wow, the economy really grew.
Look at all that activity going on out there in December, and in January and February we fall off the map, because all that activity took place in December.
I, ladies and gentlemen, because I'm a powerful influential member of the media, I know lots of people who've already made the arrangement to move as much January income as they can into December.
And the date, you know, anywhere, anytime before December 31st, and they're waiting.
And if the tax rates don't change, they're not going to move the money forward.
If the tax rates do change if they're not extended, they'll take the money.
They'll have it paid.
Now, most people can't do this.
But those who can are going to do so.
So that's double whimmy, not just the uh the capital gains shift, but also standard income shift.
All of this activity just proves the value of tax rates, and how they stimulate growth and activity.
Chip in uh Rutherford to North Carolina.
Nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, good afternoon, Russ.
Megadetos, and Merry Christmas.
Same to you, sir.
Yeah, I was talking to uh uh Bo about uh maybe changing topic a little bit and get off uh the political um train for a bit.
I wanted to revisit top 40 radio and talk a little bit about those days and the uh late 60s, early 70s.
Um you think top 40 radio could uh work today?
Well uh it would of course depend upon the music.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Uh I don't you're gonna have to help me out, and I hate to admit this, but since I lost my hearing, uh I I there I don't know what new music there is because it's all it all sounds the same.
I can't I haven't listened to music since the early parts of this decade because I just can't I can't hear it.
I cannot.
The only music I can listen to is music that I knew before I went deaf because my memory supplies the melody.
I don't really hear it because I don't have the uh hearing sensitivity anymore to do it, so my my my my memory does.
Right.
So I don't know, is there any music out there that is comparable to top 40 in the 60s and 70s?
Well, you know, not I don't think there is.
I uh the the you would the billboard charts are still published, of course, and then you you've got your oldies uh stations and uh see the oldies stations are the closest thing to top 40 that there is.
And uh, you know, that that format works depending on the music rotation, how big the playlist is, and the jocks.
I I do think, yeah, I uh nostalgia is a big thing.
I think it could be made to work.
I think you could if if uh John Rook could come back around, put WLS back together the way it was in the uh 60s and 70s, it'd be fun to try it.
It'd be interesting to see.
KXOK St. Louis, oh KFI Los Angeles.
Uh or that was KHJ back then.
Those would be that would be fun to see.
Uh, but I think as retro as our society is, I don't think there's any question it could be made to work if you had the right people behind it, led of course by me.
Bush delivered Turkey, Thanksgiving troops in Iraq.
This year the White House sent a turkey to Afghanistan.
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