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July 16, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 16, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So when Sandusky goes to jail, the inmates sing the Pink Floyd song.
Teacher, teacher, leave these kids alone.
Hillary goes to Egypt and they start chanting Monica at her.
And 17 years ago, they started chanting Monica, Monica, at Hillary Clinton, and then he threw tomatoes and shoes at her.
I just love democracy when it breaks out all over the Middle East, don't you?
Great to have you here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I don't believe this.
By the way, telephone number, 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushboateibnet.com.
I'm sitting here in stunned bewilderment, and I guess I shouldn't be.
I have this silly notion that our nation is going to progress each and every day, that we're going to get better.
I don't mean economically.
I'm talking about sophistication, things that work in political campaigns.
I guess I'm going to have to lower my expectations.
The problem with lowering expectations is, and I'm perpetually disappointed.
And if I don't watch it, I'm perpetually depressed.
The idea that Mitt Romney is a felon is still active.
It's still the centerpiece of the Obama campaign.
That Mitt Romney's a felon.
Here you've got Barack Obama, who veritably grew up with them.
His house financed by one.
His campaign announced in the home of another felon, the guy that tried to blow up the Pentagon, Bill Gates.
Obama's heirs, heirs, yeah, yeah, heir.
Sorry about that.
I've been reading about Bill Gates.
Yeah, yeah, Bill Ayers.
Bill Ayers.
They do look alike, but I didn't mean the Microsoft guy.
Have you noticed, though, there is a similarity?
Can somebody prove that Gates wasn't at the Pentagon when it was?
At any rate, Obama is surrounded by dubious characters his entire life.
His home is financed by a felon.
And we're actually sitting here still debating.
The regime is still putting out that Romney was a felon based on when he left Bain Camp.
Here is the biggest milquetoast whitebread guy that's ever run for president who might not be able to define felony if you ask him is how far away from one he is.
And we're sitting here and Jack Welch and his lovely and gracious wife Susie have a column out today in the Wall Street Journal.
And I can understand if this was in people or if it was in whatever on TMZ or if they did a special commentary on the e-entertainment network, but in the Wall Street Journal, the Bible of American business newspapers.
I have it right here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It's true.
Corporations are people.
We have come to this, ladies and gentlemen.
Jack Welch, renowned CEO extraordinaire in his day, General Electric, has to write a piece in the Wall Street Journal, guaranteeing that the people who need to see it will not.
That corporations are people.
We are that far gone that we have to explain this.
It has come to this.
This is no different than the Wall Street Journal running a piece, explaining to their readers what the stock market is.
Here's a new party trick is how the Welch column begins.
Want to be accused of being a member of a satanic cult?
Like to be called the kind of person who would steal candy from a kid or harm a puppy?
Start a forest fire all in the same day?
You want to be described as evil, heartless, and stupid?
Well, then just do this.
Offhandedly mention in public that you agree with Mitt Romney that, yeah, you think corporations are people.
Boy, how that notion sets some people right off their rockers.
Take, for instance, the scene last month when senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren introduced Obama at a big fundraiser.
She said, Mitt Romney tells us in his own words, he believes corporations are people.
No, Mitt, corporations are not people.
People have hearts.
They have kids.
They get jobs.
They get sick.
They love and they cry and they dance.
They live and they die.
Learn the difference, Mitt.
And the audience went nuts.
They did.
Welch is right about this.
If you find yourself in a pack of liberals, all you'd have to say corporations are people and you might cause two or three heart attacks.
And if you're devoted to the cause, do not call EMT when the heart attacks happen.
Let them die.
Just kidding.
It works.
You tell a bunch of liberals that corporations are people that go nuts.
Now, folks, in the Wall Street Journal, this means that the Wall Street Journal must conclude that some of its readers don't know that corporations are people.
This is akin to explaining to a 55-year-old that one in one equals two.
Yes, after a lifetime of confusion, we can finally tell you factually one in one equals two.
Yes, corporations are people.
This, this kind of, it does.
This depresses me.
We've come to this.
Take the politics out of it.
I mean, as Welch goes on to say, of course, this embarrasses me to read this.
I can't imagine how embarrassed Jack Welch was to write this.
Of course, corporations are people.
What else would they be?
Buildings don't hire people.
Duh?
Really?
Yeah, last time I interviewed with that building, it didn't do me any good.
I interviewed with that desk and I could not get a response whatsoever.
Yeah, and then I went and I talked to the White House.
And the White House put out a statement.
The White House isn't people.
It's just a building.
If corporations aren't people, how the hell can the White House be people?
How can Congress be people?
It's a building.
And a bunch of rotten stuff goes on in there.
The Senate.
That's not a bunch of people.
It's a building.
But I like the White House is not people.
This is the Wall Street Journal, where Jack Welch is informing readers that businesses don't, buildings don't hire people.
Wonder how many Wall Street Journal readers go, wow, I never looked at it that way before.
Buildings don't hire people.
Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity.
Yeah, buildings are smarter than that.
Buildings don't discover DNA-based drug therapies that target cancer cells in ways our parents could never imagine.
Buildings don't show up at a customer's factory and say, we won't leave until we solve your inventory problems.
Buildings don't encourage their employees to mention inner city kids in math and science.
Buildings don't find homeless shelters in Boston or health clinics in Rwanda.
People do.
Corporations are people working together toward a shared goal, just as hospitals, scrools, farms, restaurants, ballparks, and museums are people working together.
No, no, no, no, no.
The Pittsburgh Steelers did not beat the St. Louis Rams.
Heinz Field beat the Edward Jones Dome.
Folks, that's depressing.
I mean, Romney's a fella.
This is absurd.
And we could chalk it up maybe slow summer.
You could even say maybe the Obama campaign is, if you want to look at the optimistic way, the Obama campaign's got nothing.
They've literally got nothing if this is all they've got.
But they're getting mileage out of nothing like nobody I've ever seen.
At least in the media, which I know is less popular.
Oh, by the way, snurgly, the EIB network made HBO's show the newsroom last night.
Yeah, yeah, we made it.
And I know why we made Sorkin puts me in there so that I'll play clips from the stupid show and then promote the stupid show and so forth.
I know how it works.
That's what they all do.
All these networks mention me, hoping and praying that I will play soundbites of them mentioning me, which will then incite curiosity for the network at large, people and tune in to listen.
Because, oh, yeah, they disparage me.
They said a couple things that aren't true.
Let's go ahead.
Grab Soundbites 2627.
Here's the lead anchor on the show, Jeff Daniels, portraying the news anchor Will McAvoy.
And this is during a reprint.
Now, remember what this show is.
The newsroom runs at 10 o'clock on Sunday nights at HBO, which is when Breaking Bad is on.
Breaking Bad premiered last night.
And that's, in fact, I'll tell you what happened.
I had three shows set up to record at 10 o'clock last night on my, and I have two DVRs.
Actually, I got, yeah, I'll leave it at two.
I've got two DVRs, but for, I made a mistake, and I set three.
You can record two programs at one time.
I set it up to record three shows at 10 o'clock last night.
One is this new Sigourney Weaver, I'm Hillary Clinton show on the USA network, Political Animals, and then Breaking Bad, the season of premiere at 10 o'clock, and then this newsroom thing on HBO.
So at about 9:58, the TV says, uh-oh, you got a conflict here.
You got two programs slated to record here at 10 o'clock.
You got to cancel one of them.
And the options I was given were political animal or the newsroom.
So I said, screw the newsroom.
Don't record it.
What happened to be the episode where I mentioned, but they rerun those things left and right.
If I care, I can get it.
I don't need to get it.
I've got the sound bailier.
You watch Breaking Bad.
Oh, you watch.
I love that show.
Folks, it's the most amazing show.
There's not one likable character.
There's not one admirable thing in the show.
You watch this show and you hate everybody in it.
But it's one of the best shows.
Joel Sarnow, I had never heard of the show.
Joel Sarno told me middle of the second or third season of the show.
He said, You ever watch Breaking Bad?
Says, no, never heard of it.
Best show on TV.
I said, How's this the best show on TV if I've ever heard of it?
It's the best show on TV.
So I got the DVDs and I watched the first couple episodes of the first season.
This is horrible.
It's about a high school chemistry professor who gets cancer, diagnosed terminal cancer.
He doesn't have any money, so he gets together.
I'm really shortening this up.
He gets together with one of his reprobate high school students who runs a meth lab.
And together, they create the greatest crystal myth in the southwestern United States, including Mexico.
This guy's brother-in-law is a DEA agent.
And now we're season five, and the DEA agent is no closer to knowing his brother-in-law is the new Scarface Kingpin.
The show has chronicled this guy starting out as the meekest anybody can walk all over him, chemistry professor, to now he's the biggest crime lord in the country.
It's fascinating.
And his reprobate partner, some high school ne'er-do-well, punk kid, they're all hateful characters.
They're all hateful.
Even this guy's wife is hateful.
They're all just hateful.
Even the kid, everybody in it.
It's the first show I've ever watched where nobody is likable, which is unique.
Most shows have at least one or two lovable characters you identify with.
Snerdley, have you read the novel 50 Shades of Gray?
Well, let me tell you something.
You need to get it.
Yeah, because, see, Snerdley thinks that he is the Dr. Ruth of Men.
I'm getting there.
I'm being asked here questions.
I'm getting to the answers that you all have.
I'd never heard of it till yesterday.
So I'm reading page six in the New York Post, and I see that movie rights have been negotiated for this book.
They describe a little bit of the book, and it's a chick book written by a woman.
It's about, well, they had these kind of books in the 70s.
The Sensuous Woman by Jay.
You remember that one?
A couple others back then.
Happy Hooker.
This kind of thing.
This one apparently tops all of those.
It, well, it's graphic.
Yeah, it's graphic.
Yeah, yeah.
I was compelled to buy the thing when I was reading about it.
So I started reading a little bit last night.
And I said, last about 10:30 during Breaking Bad, commercial break, I turned to Catherine.
I said, You ever heard of this 50 Shades of Gray?
She looked at me.
Where did you hear about this?
Yeah, she said, everybody's telling me to read it.
Everybody, all my friends are telling me to read it.
She said, I'm not reading it because everybody else is, which is like I did.
Conventional wisdom goes one way, I go the other.
Catherine and I both, whatever the PAC's doing, we do the opposite.
So she has it.
I said, you need to get it.
Your friends, her friends are describing this.
And it's typical.
It's a woman writing her own fantasies in the form of a novel.
Yes, right, snarling, certainly getting all excited in there.
And I guarantee you, what's going to happen?
Every guy that reads this book is going to say, yeah, that's me.
That's me.
As she describes her fantasy, yeah, that's me.
Every guy that reads it, yep, yep, yep.
I already got this down, Pat.
That's me.
That's me.
You're going to do that, Snurdy, when you read.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Commonplace.
Oh, yeah.
Do that all the time.
Dawn's in there saying, what happened to your story about the newsroom?
I got to take a break.
We'll do it.
We'll be back.
We'll continue.
Don't go away.
All right.
Now, folks, before you go buy this book, stop and listen to me.
You need to know some things because I'm not recommending it.
It's totally up to you, but I want you to know.
I don't want to have anybody get the wrong idea what this book is.
This book is about S ⁇ M.
This book is anti-feminist porn.
There is not a feminist in this world who will love this book.
This is a book about totally domineering men.
Well, A, totally domineering man.
He calls himself the dominant.
The female object in the book is the submissive.
She signs a non-disclosure agreement.
She promises not to tell a soul about anything.
There are this, the best description of this book that I've seen is called Mommy Porn.
It is aimed at bored housewives and mothers.
The author of this book is making a million dollars a week on residuals.
It came out in April.
It's part of a trilogy.
50 Shades of Gray is first.
But this is all about how women want to be submissive.
It defies everything feminism supposedly teaches.
It says that being submissive is the ultimate empowerment.
It started out as a self-published book developed on a fan fiction website, but the author pulled it because it was too dirty.
So she put it on her own website.
You can get it as an e-book, but I don't want anybody to get it.
It's not the sensuous woman.
It's not a light-hearted romp.
So I don't want anybody getting the idea here that I misled you into buying, it's just, I mean, the fun for me is I would love to see Hillary Clinton reading this book, or I would love to see Molly Yard read.
I'd just send them into orbit.
But there's no romance.
It isn't a romance book.
It's not at all about love, nothing of the sort.
So don't anybody get the wrong idea and go out and buy this thing thinking, well, you know, if Rush just want, well, would it make the Oprah book?
That's jury still out on that question.
If somebody could convince Oprah that the author's premise that submission is ultimate empowerment, then Oprah would go for it.
That's what Oprah is all about is empowerment.
So it's possible, but I don't know that that's the case.
And if you're using that to buy it, don't.
Folks, if corporations are not people, then why are people blaming Romney for what happened at Bain Capital?
Bain Capital is a corporation.
Bain Capital, therefore, is not people.
Romney is a people.
He's a person.
How can Romney be blamed if corporations are not people?
No, no, no.
I'm serious.
I'm trying to make a point.
And I don't think that I'm exaggerating.
I find this to be pure sophistry.
It's an indication of how pathetic the Obama campaign is.
And it's a double indication of how pathetic Obama's supporters are.
And of course, the Pies de Résistance soundbites yet to come.
Obama's out there now parroting Elizabeth Warren that successful people did not do it themselves.
That successful people, basically what Obama believes is that business owners are people who stole somebody else's property or unfairly used other people's work, didn't pay them appropriately.
That's what he believes.
He's out there parroting the squaw, Elizabeth Warren.
It is just, I can't tell you how shocking it literally is.
Jack Welch, Mr. CEO in the Wall Street Journal, has to write a piece explaining that corporations are people.
It's a grab audio 7 by 24 really quick.
And who is it that's making these claims?
Supposedly Mr. Intelligence, smartest guy ever to serve as president.
Barack Hussein Obama.
Most intelligent, the brightest, most sophisticated.
This guy is a walking gaffe machine.
Friday night, Roanoke, Virginia.
Speaking at an historic fire station, he said this.
I see a couple folks slumping down a little bit.
Make sure you're drinking water.
Bend your knees.
Don't stand up too straight.
The paralegals will be the paralegals.
You don't need lawyers.
Paralegals.
He meant to say paramedics.
But this guy and all these people fake fainting at his events.
Here he is giving medical advice.
You know, bend your knees, bend your knees.
Don't stand up too straight.
Can you get us some water out there?
They're supposedly fainting in record numbers now.
Now, back to the newsroom.
I have become product placement.
Essentially, ladies and gentlemen, I am the new product placement.
Product placement is the stuff that movies stick in their sets, like a bottle of Coke or an iPhone or whatever, for which the movie companies charge an exorbitant fee, product placement.
Except I, El Rushbo, am not being paid, even though I'm product placement, because fair usage.
Now, let me tell you what the newsroom is.
The newsroom is a fake television news network every 10 o'clock Sunday night on HBO.
And the technique, it's Aaron Sorkin who wrote the West Wing, which many liberals thought was the actual White House when Martin Sheen was president.
They fantasized about it.
The technique of this show is to live in the past.
For example, the opening episode dealt with the BP oil spill and how the news networks should have covered it and how they should have zeroed in on BP and how they should have destroyed that company and how they should not allow them up to breathe.
So what Sorkin is doing is going back at news events that have already happened and writing a television show about this fictitious news network and how it should have been covered if the news was being done the right way at the time.
So on last night's episode, we have a portion here.
This is the anchor Will McAvoy played by the actor Jeff Daniels.
And they're doing a report on media coverage of Obama's trip to India in 2010.
No, let me say that I said 26.
Stand by 26 first.
Here we go.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly warned to his listeners to go out and buy guns before President Obama outlaws them all.
Now, stop the tape.
I should have said, I should have asked somebody to go to the archives before the program started.
I'm just not.
I don't remember ever doing this.
Now, I know there were people who were doing this.
I report, I don't think I didn't tell people to go buy guns before Obama outlaws them all.
I don't think I did that.
But see, I'm Xerox.
I am talk radio.
I am product placement.
Now, re-cue that thing to the top.
I mean, it's going to be hard to prove a negative here, but we're going to search the archives.
I'm going to find out if I actually was the one urging people to go out and buy guns before Obama outlawed them all.
I don't remember.
I remember people doing it.
I remember talking about it, reporting it.
It's not something that ever occurred to me.
I am more careful than that.
But see, it doesn't matter.
I still get blamed for it.
Here's the bite now in its totality.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly warned to his listeners to go out and buy guns before President Obama outlaws them all.
The result?
In November 2008, the month Mr. Obama was elected, there was a 42% spike in gun background checks as compared to the same month the year before.
In spite of Governor Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and the director of the NRA telling us emphatically that Barack Obama has a secret plan to get our guns.
Here's the president's report card.
Background checks, F. Gun trafficking, F.
These grades would indicate that President Obama is the best friend the NRA has ever had in elected office, to say nothing of the Oval Office.
Why are Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and the head of the NRA so colossally lying to you?
I don't know.
This is a news show.
This is the fictitious newsroom is the HBO show.
And as I say, they're going back, they're taking events in the past and recovering them on this show as Aaron Sorkin thinks that the news networks back then should have.
I wonder if Aaron Sorkin has ever heard of Fast and Furious.
I wonder if Aaron Sorkin has ever heard the story that Obama and Eric Holder did everything they could to get AK-47s into the hands of Mexican drug cartels for the express purpose of ginning up anti-Second Amendment fervor among the American people.
And I wonder if Aaron Sorkin is aware of the fact that the Justice Department will not release documents that would tell us the truth of the program.
How clueless is it?
So not only does he report that I'm out there telling everybody to go buy guns now before Obama outlaws them, now he's saying that Obama's the best friend the NRA ever had because he doesn't, which is the, it's an absolute crock.
Sturdley is sending me a little note here.
It says, thanks for the clip you've just ensured I'll never watch or pay any attention to the newsroom.
Well, that's only the first bite.
The actor, Jeff Daniels, as the anchor Will McAvoy continued.
On November 2nd of last year, the website for New Delhi TV quoted an anonymous official of the Maharashtra government saying that President Obama's trip would be costing $200 million a day.
The Drudge Report posts a link to the story, either believing it to be possible or not caring that it isn't.
Rush Limbaugh knows this figure can't possibly be right, but Mr. Limbaugh runs with it anyway.
507 rooms at Taj Mahal, four of 40 airplanes, $200 million a day.
This nation will spend on Obama's trip to India.
I think people who willfully, purposefully, and gleefully lie to the American people in order to damage someone's reputation should, like a registered sex offender, be required by law to come with that warning label for the rest of their lives.
There's their fantasy.
Their fantasy is in a second Obama administration that conservatives would have to register like sex offenders.
That's their fantasy.
There you have people.
How about in order to damage someone's reputation?
You mean like Obama's doing now with this silly notion that Romney's a felon from Mr. Civility himself, all of this guttural rot gut sleaze coming in the form of a presidential campaign coming from Obama.
I remember this story.
I remember this, and that was what was first reported.
There were 40 airplanes taking all the administration people in the press and everything and taking out the whole Taj Mahal.
I don't remember the source of the story, but it was, I think it was the regime.
I think the regime put this thing out so that they could then laugh at everybody for believing it later and at the same time issue a denial.
The thing, Mr. Sorkin, the thing is people believed it because it's entirely possible with this guy.
I mean, they take two airplanes to Martha's Vineyard.
Mrs. Obama took 40 people and what knows, who knows what all to Spain all by herself.
The Indian story was from India today.
It was a publication from India, one of their journals, and they're the ones who reported the size of the Obama entourage.
All right, a quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Much more straight ahead.
We're going to get to Obama next, describing how successful people in this country are basically just a bunch of thieves.
Business owners are people who have stolen somebody else's work and, in some cases, their property.
And here's another question.
If corporations are not people, why did we bail out General Motors and Chrysler?
Why did Obamacare?
Why did we bail out General Motors and Chrysler if corporations aren't people?
They're just General Motors and Chrysler, a bunch of cars.
A bunch of evil cars, by the way, that people shouldn't be driving.
What do we?
We bailed out a bunch of cars.
I said the nonsense here is just.
All right, here we go.
Back to Roanoke, Virginia.
This is Friday night.
Did not get a lot of coverage at the time.
Did not get a lot of coverage over the weekend.
The drive-bys did not focus on this much.
Fox News, at some point, did bring it to people's attention.
He's at the historic fire station number one.
Grab somebody number two.
Let's play Elizabeth Warren first, just to show you.
We may even have a little plagiarism going on here.
This is a well-known Indian squaw, Elizabeth Warren, September of 2011, Andover, Massachusetts, during a talking tour, running for the Senate against Scott Brown.
I hear all this, you know, well, this is class warfare.
This is whatever.
No, there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.
Nobody.
You built a factory out there.
Good for you.
But I want to be clear.
You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.
You hired workers.
The rest of us paid to educate.
You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
Now, a couple of interesting things about this.
Let's look at roads, for example.
Which came first?
The paved road or the car?
Well, which necessitated which?
I would submit to you that the car came along and then the government and all of the people that really made this thing work then built the roads.
What Obama and Elizabeth Warren want you to believe is that government is the center of everything.
Government starts everything and government doesn't.
Government reacts.
It was the market that built cars.
It was somebody.
It was a bunch of people that built cars.
It was a bunch of people who invented the assembly line to make them efficiently and quickly.
Government had nothing to do with it.
And the second point about this is, you know what this really is?
This is a bunch of people, it don't count.
This is a bunch of people with miserable, meaningless lives, lying to themselves, trying to tell themselves that they matter.
So you have Mr. Big Factory Owner who is Mr. Big Business Guy, who's Mr. Wealthy, in their view.
Well, he didn't do it.
He couldn't have done it without all of us.
We built the roads and we built the regulations and we built the stoplights and we built the trains.
Yeah.
Well, if you did all that, how come you're sitting there with nothing?
If you made it all happen, how come you've got nothing?
Well, the rich business guy stole it from me.
We're the ones that actually made it all.
This is such a crock.
This is a bunch of meaningless people who know that their lives don't account for anything, trying to matter, coming up with this ridiculous philosophy that says successful people have not done it on their own.
Successful people only exist because of the nameless, faceless, real, true hard.
You know, before Marx, there was no such thing as class-driven economics.
If that guy had been aborted, we'd have a whole different world today.
Now, here's Obama in Roanoke on Friday night.
If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.
You didn't get there on your own.
I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.
There are a lot of smart people out there.
It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.
Let me tell you something.
There are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we had that allowed you to thrive.
Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
If you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
The internet didn't get invented on its own.
Government research created the internet.
So then all the companies could make money off the internet.
Yeah, well, you know who really invented the internet?
It was the military.
It was a DOD project.
And Obama hates that.
But folks, look, here he is repeating it.
Roads and bridges.
The roads and bridges came after what was necessary or what made the roads and bridges necessary.
They came after that.
This is, I'll tell you what, I think it can now be said without equivocation, without equivocation, this man hates this country.
He is trying, Barack Obama is trying to dismantle brick by brick the American dream.
There's no other way to put this.
There's no other way to explain this.
He was indoctrinated as a child.
His father was a communist, mother was a leftist, sent to prep Ivy League schools where his contempt for the country was reinforced.
He moved to Chicago.
It was the home of the radical left movement.
He hooks up with Ayers and Dorn, Rashid Khalidi.
He learns the ruthlessness of Cook County politics.
This is what we have as a president, a radical ideologue, ruthless politician who despises the country and the way it was founded and the way in which it became great.
He hates it.
Yeah, we're just getting started.
Just getting started.
The fastest three hours in the media.
A brief break here at the top of the hour and we'll be back and resume right where we left off.
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