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June 24, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 24, 2011, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, you folks, how you doing?
Greetings.
Welcome to EIB Network, El Rushball in Hollywood.
And sadly, maybe not to everybody, sadly, but sadly, it's Friday.
Live from the Left Coast at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's open line Friday.
Time for another busy broadcast, ladies and gentlemen, featuring many, many busy broadcast minutes.
And I, El Rushball, hosting those busy broadcast moments, happy to be here with you.
Telephone number.
If you want to join us, 800-282-2882.
And the email address is El Rushball at EIBnet.com.
Man, are things still continuing to pop out there?
It's amazing trying to keep up with everything here, but that's what we do.
We make the complex understandable.
For those of you new to the program, and there are many of you each and every day because the program is growing by leaps and bounds, Open Line Friday differs from Monday through Thursday in one significant way.
Monday through Thursday, people who call the program have to talk about things that I care about.
The only way that they get on the air is if they are talking about things in which I have an interest.
Now, some people lie to the call screener, but we detect them immediately when that happens, and we get rid of them in ways you never even know.
But they don't survive, trust me.
But on Friday, we throw all that out, and we'll talk to anybody about pretty much anything.
I don't have to care about it.
It's the one day of the week where the people in the audience get a chance at determining, in large part, the content of the program.
It's a great opportunity.
By the way, who's screening today?
Snerdley screening today or is HR screening today?
Snerdley always manages to finagle days off when I am not in Florida.
So, yeah, yeah, well, it can't away.
Yesterday, as you know, on this program, what an important program yesterday in terms of detecting the latest Democrat strategy in which they are going to try to absolve themselves and President Obama, any responsibility for what's happening to the economy of the country.
And it is basically that they are accusing the Republicans of sabotage.
That we purposely, that George W. Bush, John Boehner, that Paul Ryan, I mean, any elected Republican that you can name, has for the last number of years been sabotaging the economy, intent on destroying the housing market, making sure that there are no job opportunities for you.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this has been the singular purpose of the Republican Party as made clear yesterday.
And they had one media acolyte that got on board.
And remember now, when I mentioned this yesterday, I said it's going to be fascinating and fun to keep a sharp eye and see which members of the media, state-controlled media, start spreading this spin.
Jonathan Alder was first.
And it happened even before the program ended yesterday.
We knew that Alan Colms, late Fox News Channel and the Hannity program, would also be following suit.
I don't know that he did because I, frankly, didn't have a TV on last night.
I don't know if anything happened.
I'm sure some of you do.
But the New York Times has picked it up today in a lead editorial.
They've just, and of course, what they've picked up here is Chuck Yu Schumer.
Schumer and Durbin had their press conference yesterday in which they expressed great sadness and a modicum of shock over the fact that the Republicans would actually purposely sabotage the U.S. economy and how unhappy that made them.
How sad that made them when they finally realized it.
So here the New York Times, piece called a temper tantrum.
Congressional Republicans who played a major role in piling up the government's unsustainable debt in the first place have thrown a tantrum and walked out of the debt limit talks.
This bit of grandstand, this is Eric Canter who says, looking until you guys get serious about tax cuts, pointless to sit here and discuss this.
So he's out.
Congressional Republicans, who played a major role in piling up the government's unsustainable debt in the first place, have thrown a tantrum.
They have walked out of the debt limit talks.
This bit of grandstanding has brought the nation closer to the financial crisis that the Republicans have been threatening for weeks.
But at least now their real goals are in sharp focus.
So now the New York Times, thanks to the great work of Chuck Yu Schumer and Dick Durbin, now the New York Times knows what's really going on.
Republican sabotage.
There's a little part of me that's a little disappointed that the New York Times, the rest of the media went ahead with this today, knowing that we had blown the cover, knowing that we know what they're doing.
They should have waited a couple of days.
They should have taken a weekend here and given this some rest.
Maybe come back the middle of next week.
But no, here they are today doing exactly as predicted, which tells me that to them, time is of the essence.
They don't have enough time, a lot of time to waste here.
But they have just, hey, Lark, how you doing?
Broadcast engineer showing up late as usual.
It just, they make me, I say that with all affection.
Lark is engineer management, not really hands-on, of course, meaning he doesn't do anything.
So he couldn't be late.
Just, but it's great to see you, nevertheless.
Point is, here they've gone and made me right, folks.
They have just confirmed that everything I said today, yesterday, is true, illustrating for you that I indeed am on the cutting edge.
The two Republicans in the talks, Eric Canter, the House Majority Leader, Senator John Kyle, the minority whip, had no intention of actually negotiating.
Yes, it says here, right, the New York Times, the Republicans had no intention of ever negotiating.
Negotiations require listening to those on the other side and giving them something they want in exchange for some of your goals.
This is actually an editorial in the New York Times today.
Negotiations require listening to those.
I mean, the new Castrati guy could have written this.
Negotiations require listening to those on the other side, Mr. Lembois, and giving them something that they want in exchange for some of your goals.
Like the Republicans are very clear on what the concept is supposed to mean.
The problem is they have spent five decades watching the Democrats cram down stuff like the Obamacare negotiations.
Remember all those negotiations?
You remember all the times the Democrats put together pieces of legislation and welcomed the Republicans in to sit at the negotiating table?
No, you don't because they didn't happen.
It's been obvious back to the Times editorial.
It's been obvious all along that cutting government services alone is not a solution to either the budget deficit or the mounting national debt.
The Democrats at least acknowledged that reality at the bargaining table by saying that along with the cuts the Republicans cherish, there would have to be increases in revenues, an end to unnecessary tax loopholes for corporations or the rich.
Those demands were modest, too modest.
Vice President Joe Bitney Jr., who is leading the talks, said they were making progress, but any compromise at all proved too much for the Republicans.
Mr. Cantor said that because he and the House would not support a tax increase, he was walking out of the deal until President Obama resolved a tax issue himself with John Boehner.
In other words, Cantor and Kyle preferred striking a Tea Party pose to the hard work of reaching a deal.
So, you see, Republicans sabotaging the economy, sabotaging the circumstances necessary for you to become prosperous, economic opportunity, sabotaging the job market.
The Republicans are doing all this.
It's amazing.
It literally is amazing.
It is one of the most, as I said yesterday, bold, most audacious lies and attempts I have ever seen.
It really is, folks.
I got to thinking about it when the program ended yesterday, and I realize that everybody says when something unusual happens, my gosh, I've never seen anything like it.
And oftentimes we've all seen many things like it, whatever.
I'm just trying to think, is there anything this audacious?
We've had two and a half years of undeniable.
It's certainly undeniable now.
Now with, well, Newts shut down the government.
No, no, the Republicans were involved with that.
There was a desire on the part of the Republicans to shut down some of the government.
They wanted to make a point.
Now, the way they were going about it was not at all the way Clinton and the Democrats portrayed it.
So there is that.
I'll give you that.
But this, for two and a half years, we have wanton, blatant economic sabotage or destruction of the private sector.
And by the way, we know that's what it is now because that's what the Democrats are accusing the Republicans of doing, purposely sabotaging.
That's the little piece of information that tells us exactly what the Democrats think they are doing.
It is sabotage.
But what they're counting on is that their buds in the drive-by media will simply pass along their view of things, carry their water with no questions, no curiosity, no attempt whatsoever to contradict them in any way.
What they're counting on is, you know, we did a parody of this Something like this during the Ken Starr era of Clinton Lewinsky.
And you remember Carville was running around saying that, you know, he's like a space alien, man.
He's a space alien.
He came here and he wants to sell y'all children cigarettes and get him on sex.
He's a pervert, Larry.
He's a pervert.
He's the alien from Mars.
He's a Mars.
And so Larry King says, Ken Starr, are you from Mars?
Gee, Larry.
See, I'm telling you, he is a Mars.
He just admitted.
You see how this works, Larry?
It's Ken Starr.
Emmanuel.
Well, this is what they're expecting to happen here.
They make this accusation.
Republicans are sabotaging the economy.
Next thing it happens on a Sunday show, David Gregory or somebody will ask the Republican guest, are you sabotaging the economy?
That's what's going to happen.
That's what they're counting on happening.
We'll see.
For now, my friends, a brief but profitable timeout for those of us here at the EIB network.
We'll be right back.
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Here is that parody in case you haven't heard it or haven't heard it in a long time.
Or if you're not a subscriber to RushLimbaugh.com, you don't hear these parodies.
We feature them sometimes during commercial breaks on the web, which do not ever make it to air.
Now, this is Clinton Lewinsky era, and this is when the Democrats, under the direction of Clinton, were destroying Ken Starr as a means of discrediting him and his allegations about Clinton and Lewinsky and a blue stain.
And this is the exact, no, it's a parody, but parodies are good.
They're funny because they've got a grain of truth in them, element of truth.
This is exactly what the regime is hoping to happen.
A variation of this on the Sunday shows regarding their allegation made yesterday that the Republicans are attempting to sabotage the United States economy.
Good evening and welcome to Larry King Alive.
Our topic tonight is Ken Starr out of control in our Little Rock studios, special counsel Ken Starr.
Good evening, Larry.
And in our Washington studios, Clinton advisor and former campaign manager James Carville.
Hi, Larry.
I'm just glad you gave me a chance to show America what a madman, vicious dog Ken Starr really is.
He's a twisted evil man, Larry.
And I know what American people are.
Yeah, thank you, James, but let's hear from Ken Starr first.
Ken, are you a madman?
Larry, let me just say that I only want to.
To destroy the president.
Call he's crazy.
He's so crazy with tobacco money, he's lost his mind.
You can hear it in his voice.
He not only wants to destroy the president, he wants to kill all your children.
He wants your babies dead.
He's been giving cottons of cigarettes to every kindergartner in America, and he ain't going to stop to all your babies to smoke a light to a camp.
Ken, why would you give cigarettes to five-year-olds?
Larry, I never would.
You see, he just said he never didn't give no cigarettes to your babies.
And it also been running around showing your babies how to play with matches because he's been taking all kinds of money from them 50-bit Zippo light and match people because he's a madman, Larry.
A killer who wants a president and all y'all babies dead.
And you know what else?
Ken Starr's a space alien.
He ain't even a real man.
He's from Mars.
That's right.
A madman from Mars and they're invading the planet.
He flies around in a spaceship handing out cigarettes made by little green men to kill your babies and destroy our president.
Pretty serious charges, Ken Starr.
Are you an alien?
Honestly, Larry, I...
Hey, you can't trust a madman moshing out to kill your babies with cigarettes and matches and a straw present, the most moral man in America.
It's a war, Larry.
It's a war.
Bill Clinton against the invaders from Mars, trying to kill you with secondhand smoke from your kindergarteners who then burn down your house playing with matches and lighters as Ken Starr flies around a spaceship.
That's it, Larry.
That's a plan to get us and our president.
Quite a compelling argument.
Well, we're out of time.
Now, tomorrow night, our show will feature a completely different subject, a psychic who says that Ken Starr is using mental vibrations to keep Susan McDougal awake at night.
See you then.
So that's a variation on what they're hoping to happen on the Sunday show today.
David Gregory or some other tool of the regime.
I mean, Chris Wallace will not do it.
Wallace is not a tool.
But Christiana Amonpour or any of the crowd at CNN.
You know, get poor old Cantor in there or whoever shows up on the Republican side.
Is it true?
Is it true you sabotaging U.S. economy?
You're doing this on purpose.
You want the economy to tank.
You want people to lose their jobs to help perhaps fuel your reelection efforts.
That's what the regime is hoping.
And here's the way the New York Times editorial today concludes.
The deadline for raising the debt limit or facing a default is August the 2nd.
Republicans cannot walk away from their responsibility to pay the bills and keep the economy out of further crisis.
You see how this, I'm sitting here.
I'm really in a state of disbelief here.
I mean, I knew I predicted it.
I know I told you it's going to happen.
Now that it's happening, I'm still not believing it.
Because it's like trying to tell everybody the sky is green when everybody's looking up and saying it's blue.
It's like trying to tell us the sun never sets at midnight.
And then there's the fascination.
What kind of success, if any, will they have with this?
And you know they're going to have some.
All it's going to take is for somebody on the drive-by media on Sunday, Sunday show, to say, yeah, the Republicans are sabotaging the economy.
I'm going to get a phone call on Monday from somebody who doesn't know anything about this yet.
They're going to be watching a Sunday show.
They will not have heard anything I've said today or yesterday.
They're going to be outraged.
Rush, you won't believe what I just saw.
They're actually trying to say.
I'm going to sit here and say, yeah, I know we talked about it for two days last week because there will be people that will buy it.
Which is always the frightening thing.
So we're going to watch how the risks here on this.
I don't know if they're big or not.
What if this backfire?
What would be a backfire if they try this?
They are trying it.
What would constitute a backfire?
A backfire would be state control media host asking the Republican the opposite question.
Do you believe what they're asking?
They're saying you and then giving the Republican a chance to, you know, thanks for the opportunity, David, tell you what's really happening and blame it all on Obama.
Be back in just a second.
Okay, the New York Times lead editorial.
Here again is how they close.
Republicans cannot walk away from their responsibility to pay the bills and keep the economy out of further crisis.
Read the first 50 comments of New York Times readers posting a reaction, a response to the Times editorial.
There is not one that does not attack the GOP.
50 different comments to the New York Times lead editorial, and all 50 agree with the Times the GOP is sabotaging.
I'm sorry, I have to laugh.
Rarely am I, El Rushbo, rendered speechless.
And I predicted this, even though I'm still stunned at this.
And we have a couple of other examples.
Ron Reagan Jr., last night on Hardball, MSNBC, Ron Reagan Jr. filling in for Chris Matthews.
And he spoke with the deputy White House editor of the Politico, a guy named Joe Williams, about to break down in federal budget negotiations.
And this was a question that Ron Reagan asked, the politico guy.
Chuck Schumer and Richard Derman, Democratic senators, both came out yesterday and said that they believe that the Republicans actually want to tank the economy, basically, for political reasons.
Could this be part of that larger strategy?
Now, folks, see this, it's already happening.
It happened last night.
Hardball.
Predictable.
Predictable there.
Now we may know why the Democrats have not come up with their own budget in, what, 700 some odd days.
85.
The Democrats have not offered a budget of any kind for 785 days.
You know what I think?
I'll tell you what I think.
We've all missed this.
We think that they didn't present a budget because they didn't want to make themselves even more vulnerable during the election.
The midterms in 2010, they figured if they had submitted a budget that people find out what socialists they are, better not to write anything down so as not to make themselves targets.
Better to leave it just that the Republicans will make those allegations, but with no formal presentation, just a bunch of allegations and nothing more.
So two budget cycles have gone by.
The Democrats have not presented a single one.
Now, in the long-term thinking of political strategy as engaged in by the Democrats, this makes perfect sense now.
It has been a political calculation from the beginning not to present a budget because at some point, these people have known that their president and their policies are destroying the nation's economy.
They have known for the longest time that that was going to be the debate, that that was going to be the subject around which future elections occurred, around which future elections were won and lost.
And so they are attached to their policies and their ideology in inseparable ways.
They're egomaniacal.
Their policies are who they are.
They will never disavow them.
They will never separate themselves.
Not seriously.
They will never condemn these policies.
What they will do is admit that these policies sabotage the economy and that they are Republican ideas.
Because, well, where's our budget, they'll say?
We haven't presented a budget.
Yeah, we kind of screwed up there, but how can you say we did this?
We don't have a budget here.
And the Republicans will be forced to say, well, Obama presented a budget.
Here's the thing.
If this is, this is Very important, I think, because once, as you well know, if you've ever had a fight with your wife or your husband, if you've ever had an argument with any, once you have to start explaining, you're finished.
Are you not?
Once you have to start explaining what you meant, once you have to start explaining what you did, you are kaput.
At least you're not winning.
Now, what the Democrats hope to achieve here is a coordinated effort, other Democrats and the media, going to the Republicans and making them explain this destruction, this sabotage.
It doesn't matter to them that the charge is true.
Remember, it's never the nature of the evidence that matters.
It's always the seriousness of the charge that contains the gold mine.
And we learned that during the Clarence Thomas Anita Hill fiasco during his confirmation hearings.
You know, the charge that he was engaging in sexual harassment with pubic hairs on cans of Coke.
I remember everybody saying, well, that's ridiculous.
He didn't, though, Mr. Limbaugh, the seriousness of the charge.
We must look into this.
But there's no evidence.
That's precisely why we must look into this.
Because there's no evidence.
This has happened before.
You'll remember that some sick history or political science professor from Colombia, a guy named Gary Sick, wrote a book.
In the book, he alleged that George H.W. Bush took a secret flight to Paris before the 1980 elections on board an SR-71 spy plane and met with leaders of the regime of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
And the deal was struck to keep the American hostages until after the 1980 elections, so as to not give Jimmy Carter any kind of electoral bump.
Actually made the allegation.
Thomas Foley was then the Speaker of the House.
He called a press conference.
He said there was no evidence for this, that there had been countless investigations, and this is the first that anybody had heard, but that the nature of these charges, the seriousness of these charges was such that the House had to look into it.
The House must, he said, conduct an investigation, which they did.
And of course, which turned up nothing because there never was anything.
Just as there's nothing here, Republicans are not sabotaging the economy.
But once you put them on defense, once the Republicans have to start explaining this, guess who it is that looks guilty?
All the while, I keep adding to this, all the while, people on our side say we are not going to attack Mr. Obama.
We're only going to attack his policies.
Really smart.
Really smart.
The guy who is sabotaging the economy is given cover by the wimps on our side who are afraid that leveling that charge will send the independents running to the Democrats.
But somehow, when the Democrats make the charge that the Republicans are sabotaging the economy, somehow the independents are going to stay with the Democrats during that.
You see how this works?
So they talk the Republicans into, no, no, no, no, we can't attack President Presbyterian.
No, no, no, no.
Attack his policies.
Mr. Limbaugh, we'll stick to this with that.
We're not going to be mean spirit.
And we're not going to attack anybody's reputation.
We're not going to do it the way you would do it, Limbaugh.
That's what we want about it.
We're of a higher caliber than that.
We'll attack the policy.
Fine, Danny, okay?
You go ahead and take your so-called high road, and you watch, just watch yourself be decimated all along the way.
Because that's what this looks like it could be.
Okay?
So you had Ron Reagan's question of this guy at the Politico, Deputy Washington editor, White House editor, Joe Williams.
And the question, Republicans really?
Larger strategy here to sabotage the economy?
And here's what this Williams guy, the White House editor at the Politico, Joe Williams, this is how he answered the question.
It would be a really, really bad thing.
And it's kind of a dangerous game because you actually are talking about people's lives here.
Polls indicate that the public blame them or would blame them if the debt ceiling does not get raised and the U.S. defaults on some of their obligations.
So it's a dangerous game politically, and it's a dangerous game to be toying with people's lives this way who are already hurting and to sort of raise the prospect that they could hurt even more because of some politics.
Oh, yeah.
So see, it's fait accompli now.
Politico last night, Jonathan Alter yesterday afternoon, Sunday shows even more.
Yep, Republicans.
Sabotaging the economy, playing with people's lives.
Well, really, really, they're already hurting.
And here come these Republicans playing with people's lives.
You see what's happening now, do you?
Look.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, wrapping up an exciting and fun, busy broadcast week to California because we're here.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, no ditto cam.
Although we're working on changing that so that the next time we are here in California, we will have a ditto cam.
It's amazing the demand.
It's amazing the sadness mixed in with the anger.
I mean, I've read the emails all week.
Some people think that we're just too lazy.
Some people think that we don't value them enough.
I mean, Rush, come on, the ditto cam is big.
And if I go a whole week, I mean, take it very, very seriously.
So I'm just, we just, it's a temporary setup here.
We haven't had time to make it a permanent install, which it really has to be.
But I promise we are working on it.
Since it's Friday, we always try to go to phones a little earlier than we do the normal Monday through Thursday programs.
So where are we starting?
Bloomfield, Minnesota.
This is Lee.
Lee, great to have you.
What?
That's New Mexico.
Bloomfield, New Mexico.
It's my fault.
How are you, Lee?
I'm fine, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you?
Couldn't be better.
Thank you.
Yes, it is Bloomfield, New Mexico.
And it's in the Four Corners area.
Yeah.
And according to geologists, we are sitting on approximately 500 years or more of untapped natural gas resources here during the entire time that President Bush was the leader of our nation.
And I'm not saying he's perfect.
I mean, I'm a registered Republican, but I'm not saying he's perfect.
I don't vote just because you're Republican.
I vote how I vote, you know.
I understand.
My husband's income went up on an average of $10,000 to $15,000 to $20,000 a year the whole eight years that he was in office.
My husband worked in the natural gas fields, which, by the way, do not pollute the countryside.
You don't even know the wells are there.
I have three up behind me.
I don't even know they're there.
I have three P ⁇ A. That's when you plug in a bandon, that are outside my back door.
And, Mr. Limbaugh, if you would stand on my back porch and point them out to me, I'll buy you dinner.
Well, what you're illustrating, Lee, is that all of this talk about changing our environmental focus so it's safer and greener and cleaner is all bogus.
Well, it's not...
It's how they're selling it, but it's not at all the reason they're doing anything to do.
They're not interested in cleaner energy.
They're not interested in the plant.
All it's bogus.
I know it.
You plug in an electric car.
Where the heck do you think that energy is coming from?
From coal.
Oh, yeah.
And that's the biggest oxymoron there is.
Clean coal.
Exactly.
Everybody knows this.
Have you ever been, you saw RoboCop?
Yeah, I think I saw, I think I've seen it one time.
I know, not the whole thing.
Let's take another look at how it looks.
It's supposed to be Detroit in the future.
Well, if you go up here to this coal-fired plant up here, that's what it looks like.
I had the worst headache I've ever had in my life for almost a week after my husband took me up there.
I went, what is that?
But natural gas, I have a plant right down the hill from me here.
There's nothing.
It's steam.
2% of what comes out of that plant is CO2.
The rest of it is steam.
It's natural gas.
It's the cleanest burning stuff we've got.
The point I wanted to make about making the Republicans ruining the economy, my husband no longer has a job now.
They have basically shut down the natural gas fields here.
Right.
But don't tell me.
Don't tell me.
You're not telling me that you think the Republicans are sabotaging the economy.
No.
My husband had a job and his income went up.
Okay, that's what I thought you said.
That's what I thought you said at the beginning of the phone call.
This kind of outrage, by the way, is all over the western parts of the United States.
What is happening to people in the western parts of the country?
What you've heard here from Lee is it could be a farmer working in the natural gas industry.
There is an all-out assault on things that have employed people, that have encouraged economic advancement, economic growth, prosperity for people that do not cause harm to people.
I know Louisiana's not happy.
It's all over the country.
It's stunning to run across people, come into contact with people who have this kind of attitude.
They're fit to be tied.
It's why I say that if the election were tomorrow, Obama's done in a landslide.
If the election's tomorrow, Lee, thanks much.
Steve Farmingdale, New York, you're next here on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you very much, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's a great question.
Thank you for my call, and congratulations on you, 2xT.
Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to say it's so simple.
What you have to do is go opposite of what liberals say.
If they say the Republicans ruined the economy, that means they did.
Just like when they say Sarah Palin's stupid and can't win, that means she's brilliant and can win.
So it's all kind of easy to figure out.
Just go opposite of what they say.
Well, I know.
It's easy for you to figure out.
I mean, you're open-minded to it.
You've had great guidance.
You have been a regular listener to this program.
You've been taught how to spot these things.
You've been taught how to read the stitches on the fastball.
But you have to understand, not everybody gets it.
Like I'm telling you, the first 50 comments posted in response to the New York Times editorial today blaming the Republicans for sabotaging the economy, every one of the first 50 agrees with the Times, agrees that the Republicans are sabotaging the economy, purposely want people to lose their jobs,
purposely want the price of gas to go up, housing prices, all of it.
They firmly believe it.
It's what they've been taught.
Then they're angry as they can be to boot.
The Democrats know that they've got a base of people out there that will buy into this and a media that will promulgate it.
Open line Friday Rose on Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone.
We are in Los Angeles wrapping up a fine and wonderful week of broadcast excellence.
And yes, yes, people clamoring to know I did play golf yesterday afternoon.
I just decided not to tell you about it, first thing.
I wanted to switch it up, make it somewhat unpredictable.
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