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Dec. 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 26, 2013, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever coming to you live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire where the snow is falling today.
It's pretty as a picture until you skid on the sharp bends, going around the cliffs along the Connecticut and plunge into the icy river.
But it's all good fun until then.
If you're fleeing the country, you can't do swing by and say hello.
We always love to see you.
Come, Miss.
There's a big sign on the highway saying Last Rush guest host before the border.
This is a good day, by the way, to flee to Canada because it's Boxing Day up there in all the shopping malls.
So you will get some terrific Boxing Day bargains if you pick today to flee the country.
You can re-establish yourself abroad in your new identity by getting all the things you need for your new life cheap at Canadian shopping malls this Boxing Day.
I'm going to be in Florida in February, in about a month's time, I think it is, early February, going to Jacksonville and St. Petersburg and Fort Pierce, Fort Myers, and I think wrapping it up in Miami on stage in Miami.
And so it's one of those things where if I'm heading to do some live stage shows, I think Mr. Certainly, in fact, is coming to see us in Miami.
I think that's what you're going to, I don't think we could get anywhere near Palm Beach.
I think they ran us riffraff out of town, but Miami we are coming to.
So I was like keeping an eye on local stories if I'm going to be on stage somewhere.
And I didn't realize that the guy who is the inspiration for Ron Burgundy has actually moved to the Jacksonville area, which I think is where I'm kicking off my little snowbird tour on February the 7th.
He's basically done like me.
He was way up hard-pressed north against the Canadian border in Detroit, in Detroit, which is so far north that, in fact, you actually have to go south to get into Canada, as the trivial pursuit question says, because Windsor, Ontario is south of Detroit, Michigan.
Because the whole border is laid out there like some Democrat-friendly congressional district at that point.
But the guy who is the inspiration for Ron Burgundy, who is a fella who was at a TV station in Detroit, Mort Krim, he's actually retired to Jacksonville, the Jacksonville area.
So it would be an honor to get to meet him.
I saw Anchorman 2 with my kids the other day.
And I have to say, I kind of enjoyed it.
And I believe, Mike, down in New York, Mike, you got an Anchorman bobblehead left on your front door for Christmas.
Is that right?
Really?
And it came from Amazon, and you don't recall ordering a Ron Burgundy bobblehead at all.
So somebody just sent you a Ron Burgundy bobblehead.
I wonder what that means.
So anyway, that's good to know.
I would be suspicious.
I wouldn't like it.
I would be creeped out if I say, I thought I heard Santa's reindeer, and it turned out it was like I opened the front door and there was a Ron Burgundy bobblehead there.
By the way, speaking of reindeer, I haven't thought yet about who I'm going to endorse in 2016 because I'm running for New Hampshire Senate myself.
I want an all, I'm tired of, I'm tired of the Republican Party and made him keeps making a mistake by hiring American candidates.
And so Ted Cruz is Canadian, I'm Canadian.
We want an all-ineligible ticket, I think, because you Americans have had a chance and look at the state of the place.
So I think the Republicans should run an all-Canadian ticket next time around.
But I'm not sure how Canadian he is, but I like the cut of this fellow's jib.
Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, celebrated the holiday in Oslo, Norway, with some reindeer on a plate.
Congressman King tweeted, from Oslo, Merry Christmas season to my Scandinavian friends, enjoyed a meal of lutafisk, reindeer, and lefsa.
Steve King.
That's the lutafisk thing is that terrible cured cod that they eat all the time.
I mean, it's not terrible, it's nice, but by the time you've had it for the 37th time, it's getting to you a bit.
But that's like, how cool is that?
You know, if you're looking like a real bad guy, Mr. I'm not going to take in, not a milquetoast, weenie, loser Republican, a guy who celebrates Christmas by eating Rudolph, that's like Steve King.
That's this, this guy, Steve King, he's in Iowa already.
It's like Christmas Day, he eats Rudolph.
I mean, what's he going to do for Valentine's Day?
Rip the heart out of some random passerby, just like that for Valentine.
I like this guy's attitude.
Steve King, Republican of Iowa, he celebrated Christmas in Norway by eating Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
Does the red-nose mean Rudolph the reindeer is a bit past its best?
I don't know.
Anyway, as you recall, before Christmas, there was this big flap over the Duck Dynasty guy and about all the freedom of speech issues and all the rest of it.
Freedom of speech is more than the First Amendment, it's more than government.
The climate of speech, the climate of speech is important too in free societies.
What you can say, how you can say it.
Too many people are too touchy about all of it.
There's a thing that's happening now on the internet where more and more websites are getting fed up with what they regard as incorrect comments.
Now, a lot of people are rude on the internet.
Most of the people who respond to me on the internet make various assumptions about my sexual practices, including with close family members.
That just seems to be the way it goes on the internet.
But they're not just cutting, so they're going to cut back on things like racism, homophobia, hate speech, all the rest.
Now, that's one thing to say you can't use swear words or whatever.
But the question, as we've seen with the Duck Dynasty thing, is how do they change?
How do they define racism or homophobia or whatever?
So if you just take the Bibles or the Catholic Church's position, that counts as homophobic and your comment gets deleted.
That counts as hate speech and it's cut out there.
And more and more of these websites are doing this kind of thing, including some of them cutting back on, for example, just to take a case that I'm being sued over by some touchy little dweeb, that the matter of climate change.
So if you oppose climate change, you won't be able to say that you oppose climate change on a website because people want to live in their bubbles and they don't want to be discombobulated by having anybody from out of their bubble say something interesting to them.
And of course, all these people are haters.
All these people are haters.
So the best way to not be exposed to these haters is to say you can't make homophobic comments.
You can't make racist comments.
You can't make comments querying the so-called settled science of so-called climate change.
All these things are out.
So those comment changes are, wow, another great piece from you, Paul Krugman.
I really like, wow, another terrific piece.
That's all it's going to be at the comments section eventually.
The most telling story on the climate here of free speech.
Because I'll say one thing about the Duck Dynasty.
People have said everything they had to say from every angle here.
And the salient point is this, I think.
And this is something I learned on my free speech battles in Canada and Australia and everywhere else.
So we'll take what the Duck Dynasty guy was talking about.
I got no duck in this fight.
I don't watch the show.
I don't know the show.
I don't know anything about it.
But this guy, Cliff Robertson, he says that he personally can't see the attraction of homosexuality.
And he says it quite in a rather vivid and colorful manner that he can't.
And a couple of guys on MSNBC actually said he isn't in a position to criticize it until he's tried it, by the way.
So simply, it's not enough just to say, it has no appeal to me.
Unless you've tried it, you have no right to speak about it.
And he should be very grateful that GLAD and these other identity groups aren't actually making him go the whole hog on that.
But here's the point.
Most people who are opposed, most Christians who are opposed to gay marriage are opposed to gay marriage.
They're not opposed to the other side arguing for it.
They don't mind if Glad wants to stand up and advocate for it.
They don't mind if President Obama wants to stand up and advocate it for it.
Glad and these other groups, they don't want to extend the same courtesy to these other guys.
They're not interested in hearing anybody make the opposing argument.
They don't want to be exposed to the opposing argument.
They want there to be no opposing argument.
And that's why there's no people who say, well, let's start a conversation.
Let's have a debate or whatever.
You can't have a debate with someone whose opening gambit is to get you fired from your TV show, cost you your book deal like Paul Adeen, cost you your sponsors like they're now trying to do with Phil Roy and your endorsements.
Then you're not entering into a policy discussion with somebody.
You're having a negotiation with a guy who wants to destroy your life.
You're in the same negotiation as this poor fella from Maryland is with al-Qaeda, wherever he's being held captive in the Northwest or in Waziristan or whichever part of Pakistan he's being held in, where you're negotiating for your life.
You're trying to find out what it will take to make these guys stop destroying you.
And that's not a policy conversation.
That's about someone who wants just to destroy you.
And in that respect, the most relevant story is a story from Esquire a couple of days ago in which a lady called Kim Stafford recounts that last year, September 2012, she was invited to a fancy dress party that was Boston Tea Party themed.
And she didn't really know where to get colonial garb late on a Saturday.
So she thought, quote, why don't I dress up like one of those tea baggers?
So she went along with a sign saying, somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing their idiot.
And she misspelt Kenya, K-E-N-I-A, to show that she's a stupid racist teabag who can't even spell the country that she's insulting.
And everyone thought it was a really cute costume that Kim Stafford was going as the little racist, stupid teabagger.
And they all took photographs of her and posted it on Tumblr and other social media sites.
And suddenly she discovered little Kim Stafford, little impeccably liberal, I loath tea baggers, Kim Stafford, discovered that people just assumed she was a stupid teabagger and they were and they just started piling thousands and thousands and thousands of insults on her.
Insult, insult, insult.
Where she was crude insults, insults about how stupid she was, insults using profanities, insult, insult, Ilson.
Thousands and thousands.
The whole thing went viral.
And in retelling this, in retelling this story, neither Kim Stafford nor the genius pajama boy at Esquire, who's writing it up.
What's the name of the pajama boy?
The pajama boy is called Ben Collins, who's the news editor at Squire, Esquire.
It occurs to neither of them that the people insulting little Miss Liberal Kim Stafford are her fellow liberals.
That she is discovering what it's like to be an idiot, moron, racist teabagger and to have thousands and thousands of people just insulting you and saying you need to have this particular sex act happen to you and you need this and you need that.
It doesn't occur either to Kim Stafford or the little pajama boy who's writing the piece that it is liberals who are being vile and sexist and derogatory and profane and obscene about every aspect of little miss liberal Kim Stafford's life.
And that's the point.
That's the point that she hasn't even grasped.
It never occurs to her in complaining and whining that she went along to insult teabaggers and on the internet, everybody took her out.
She did such a good job that everyone thought she was a real teabagger and insulted her.
And she couldn't stand it and it made her cry and it made her want to curl up in a fetal position.
And she doesn't understand.
That's what all her nice college, Harvard, Yale, Ivy League types do to teabaggers, as they call them, every single day of the week.
That's the problem.
If you are a teabag, if you are one of those people who likes doing that kind of stuff, give me a call because I love talking to liberals on this show.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein for Rush.
Hey, Mark Stein for Rush.
I missed out on all the Mannheim steamroller this season.
I'm kind of missing it.
We're back to the non-seasonal bumper music.
Let's go to Joe in Hartford, Ohio.
Joe, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Mark, it's Jeff, actually.
How are you doing?
Oh, Jeff, Jeff, my mistake.
Well, I'll fire someone for it.
I was not informed.
Like Obama, I'm completely out of the loop.
Good to have you with us.
I was going to say about the bumper music, why they aren't playing you today.
Well, I have this.
I have a rather clenched teeth discussion with Mike every sort of December 23rd when he is in possession of my Christmas album and he's picking out the approved EIB approved Christmas music for December 23rd.
I think the audience would like to hear you for some bumper music, so that's my book.
But anyway, that's very important to see about the individual who tried to ram this car into the presidential palace in France a couple of days ago, within the last day or two.
Yeah, that's true.
It was like he basically did what Mariam Carey is accused of doing in Washington.
And it's not clear whether she did do that or whether she actually got confused and just took a wrong term.
All the videos disappeared.
And three police agents lined up to gun her down.
And she's dead, and the baby in the car is still alive, fortunately.
Yeah.
But Jeff, this guy died to do it to the French president.
Is that right?
Hey, we've lost Jeff.
Wow.
Has Jeff gone there, Mike?
He seems to have disappeared.
He seems to have disappeared.
But Jeff was talking about this.
And it's true, some guy, unlike Mariam Carey, who's dead, who's dead, she's a black woman who's dead.
And Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpner got nothing to say about it.
She's dead because she supposedly, even if you believe the official account, bumped a barricade around the White House.
This guy at the Elysee Palace in Paris tried to ram the French president's gates.
He's a theatre director.
I don't know anything about him.
I like to think of him as the theatre director in Mel Brooks's great film, The Producers.
But that's just because I'm a homophobic stereotyper.
But he was an enraged theatre director who flew into a huff over cuts to cultural subsidies by the French government and decided to ram Francois Hollande's palace gates at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
And they're all shrugging it off.
They don't need three police agents to hunt down the person and gun him down in a hail of bullets like the police agencies did, these three police agencies combined to do to Mariam Carey on the streets of Washington a couple of months back.
She had a one-year-old baby in the car.
I don't have a lot of time for Monsieur Hollande.
He's the one who's driving all the wealthy French out of his out of to flee the country because of his 75% tax.
He's a doctrinaire socialist, but at least he's got a sense of proportion when some crazed campy theatre director decides to ram his palace gates.
He's shrugging it off.
It's business as usual.
I was talking about this with somebody yesterday on Christmas Day.
This topic of conversation came up.
I was talking about the light security around members of the royal family up in Ottawa when Prince William and his lovely bride were there for Dominion Day last year or the year before.
And again, when I saw the Queen in Glasgow with my daughter in Scotland.
A very light security because the Queen assumes that the risk is part of the job.
And even if somebody does nudge your barricade or nudge your palace gates, you don't gun them down in a hail of bullets.
The silence on the Maryam Carey case and the way all the video has disappeared from the internet is very, and the way her lawyer, apparently, the family's lawyer, is apparently in jail, like that video guy in Benghazi.
It does not speak well.
It does not speak well.
Lots more on Rush straight ahead.
Yes, indeed.
Everything is all right, uptight, out of sight.
Rush will return in the new year.
Do not forget the great Mark Belling will be here, an authentic all-American guest host to take you through Open Line Friday tomorrow on the Rush Limbaugh show and Rush back in the new year.
And you can go to rushlimbaugh.com and it is, and it is like Rush hasn't gone away.
So you need not be discombobulated by any sinister foreign guest hosts.
All you have to do is go to rushlimbaugh.com.
I was mentioning this story about This college, cute little liberal college coet, Kim Stafford, who goes to a college party dressed up as one of those horrible racist teabaggers, and someone takes a photograph of her, and everyone, all the people, all her friends on the internet and everything, assume she's the stupid, idiot, racist teabagger.
And the thing goes viral, and they all start insulting her and making derogatory comments and ruin and destroy her life.
And she's, and this guy and the pajama boy at Esquire.
And it pains me to say that about Esquire, because Esquire has always been liberal, but it had terrific writing in it at one time.
The famous Esquire story, Frank Sinatra has a cold.
It had like stuff that would rivet you from the word go.
This thing by whichever pajama boy has written this story is, it never occurs to him, and it never occurs to Kim Stafford that all the people who are being mean to her on the internet are their fellow liberals.
Ben Collins is the pajama boy in question.
Ben Collins interviews Kim Stafford.
Kim Stafford opens up about all the pain and grief she suffered.
It's liberals who are insulting you.
Genuine, you were just playing a teabagger on the internet and they destroyed your life.
Think what it's like if you're actually a real teabagger.
You know, so it's nice to call for civility and how do you take it back and why can't we all just get along and all the rest of it.
You're actually wondering why you can't get along with your fellow liberals who found racist teabaggers as funny as you did and thought you were the genuine article.
It's a tragedy.
It never occurs to Kim Stafford or to the pajama boy that they now hire to write for Esquire to attain.
And the same thing happened with Richard Cohen at the Washington Post.
Richard Cohen was writing a piece.
This is like a couple of weeks back after the election of the new mayor, the successor to Nanny Bloomberg in New York City, Bill de Blasio.
And last month, he was writing a piece about the deeply troubled feelings of the GOP.
And he wrote, quote, people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York, a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children.
Should I mention that Bill de Blasio's wife, Sherlane McRae, used to be a lesbian?
This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts but not all of America.
Okay, so he says people with conventional views, by which he means Republicans, must repress a gag reflex because the white mayor of New York is married to a black woman who used to be a lesbian and they have two biracial children.
And people assume, the internet being the internet, his fellow liberals assume that he's the one suppressing the gag reflex.
I didn't even know Bill de Blasio had a black lesbian wife.
I don't live in New York.
Everything I heard, the guy, everything I heard the guy say in terms of policy sounded crazy enough.
The black lesbian wife is the least of it.
But Richard Cohen was the guy, Richard Cohen is trying to impute racist, homophobic views to American conservatives.
And instead, his fellow liberals assume that he is, in fact, the one who has to repress a gag reflex when he sees a white man with a black lesbian woman and their biracial children.
And that's the point.
You know, liberals are obsessed with this stuff.
And they keep saying, oh, these are racist dog whistles.
If you're talking about Obamacare, if you're concerned about wait times on the Obamacare website, if you're upset about five million people having their health insurance policies canceled, it's racist.
It's really because you'd like to take that black man in the White House and you'd like to string him up from a tree on the edge of town.
It's all this stuff about healthcare and websites.
It's all just racist code language, racist code language.
No, racist dog whistles.
That's the phrase they like to use.
No, if you can hear, if you hear the dog whistle, you're the dog.
Chris Matthews hears the racist dog whistles.
He's the dog.
The other fella who, Larry O'Donnell, he hears the racist dog whistles.
He's the dog.
Richard Cohen hears the racist dog whistles, homophobic dog whistles, or homophobic duck whistles, as we should now say.
Homophobic duck calls, as we should now say in honor of Duck Dynasty.
If you can hear the racist dog whistle, if you can hear the homophobic dog call, duck call, you're the dog.
Like Richard Cohen, oh, must repress a gag reflex.
And every time when they're, when they try, when, like, like poor little Kim Stafford, she doesn't realize it's her fellow liberals who jumped on her and pounded her to a pulp and said you can't, you mocked her and hooted at her and jeered at her.
And that's the point.
The ones who want to shut down the conversation, the ones who want to, as we used to say in when I played rugby, play the man, not the ball.
In other words, you instead of trying to rest the ball away from the opposite player, you just kick him in the legs and boot him to the ground.
The ones who always play the man and not the ball are the left, are the left, because they don't really want to talk about it.
They don't actually want to discuss the issue.
They just want to make the price of you discussing the issue too high by smash mouthing you into the ground.
And they do it to their fellow liberal.
Right now, there's some little PR girl who was flying to South Africa from New York.
And she made a reference to how she was worried about AIDS, but it was okay because she was a white person.
And it was a subtle liberal joke about white privilege.
That as a white person, she lived in a little white bubble, so she wasn't at risk of contracting AIDS, which is rampant in South Africa.
And then she got on the plane and flew to South Africa.
And in the course of the flight from the United States to South Africa, all her fellow liberal friends went bananas on Twitter because they assumed her little tweet was not about white privilege, but was an insensitive racist tweet about South Africa.
And so by the time she gets, and her company, her employer fires her because they do, they're like AE now.
Oh, no, no, we don't want GLAD.
We don't want the gay and lesbian enforcers coming round and meeting us in the company parking lot with the tire iron.
So they fire her.
So she's gone.
She's history.
She's over.
She's one of them.
She's a liberal.
And she made one little tweet and she lost her job and she was vilified as a racist when she was actually making a little subtle joke about being the beneficiary of quote white privilege, as they say in the idiot faculty lounges of American universities.
And just for making that one little tweet in the time it took to leave New York City and get off the plane in Johannesburg, she'd lost her job.
She'd been denounced across the internet as a racist.
And she gets there and has to start apologizing for the pain she caught.
Media company IAC parted company with this girl, Justine Sacco, after her tweet, which Sacco, yeah, Sacco got Saxo.
No relation to Sacco and Van Setti.
I don't think.
But she, you never know.
You never know.
Well, it doesn't cause she.
Well, you're right.
You're right, Mr. Slurley, because it's not about real hurt.
She tweeted, going to Africa.
Hope I don't get AIDS.
Just kidding, I'm white.
By which she means that she's in her little bubble of white privilege, so she doesn't have to worry about it.
And nobody gets hurt.
All these people, there are other little, there are other little white, trusty, fundy people from all the upscale colleges complaining about her.
No, nobody, there's no real offense pain caused.
It just offers the blood sport of being able to, it's like hyenas.
It's like jackals.
Wow.
There's a racist tweet we can all pounce on and tear it to pieces until it's shredded and there's blood all over the walls.
And little Justine Sacco is sitting there in business class on the plane to Johannesburg and doesn't realize that her career is over.
She's there with her bag of mini pretzels, doesn't realize when she gets off the plane, her career is over, her life is over, she's been exposed as a racist and her life has been destroyed for one little tweet.
And for every person like that, everybody think, I don't want to, it's a bottom line thing for me, by the way.
I'm tired of being told I have to tiptoe around on eggshells, you know, which is what it is.
So that even if you're like Phil Robertson and you're just like riffing in a characteristically Phil Robertson way, it's not enough.
You can't, you got to, no, sorry, we've got to make the eggshells even thinner and you've got to tiptoe on them even more carefully.
And yes, you can be a big liberal PR person in New York and you've got your little ill-advice tweet.
And it's not enough just to say, please don't do that again.
Steve Martin.
Steve Martin.
Do you remember Steve Martin?
Edgy, used to be an edgy comedian years ago.
Steve Martin, Steve Martin, who wrecked, by the way, the Pink Panther franchise.
That's something to hold against him.
But he did a little joke.
Somebody asked him, how do you spell Lasagna?
And he did this little, and she'd spelled it L-A-S-O-N-I-A.
And he said, well, it depends on whether you're in an Italian restaurant or an African-American neighborhood.
By which he meant that Lassonia, spelt the way his tweeter had tweeted to him, could conceivably be the kind of name that an African-American girl might have these days.
That's all.
That's all.
That's all he's saying.
That's all he's saying.
That there are all kinds of funny names out there now, and some people have different names according to which particular cultural background they happen to come from.
And sometimes you can tell by the name that some person is more likely to be African-American than Hispanic.
But it wasn't enough.
No, no, no, no, no.
He had to apologize for the tweet.
He had to delete his horrible racist tweet.
He did Steve Martin.
This is Steve Martin.
He's rich.
He's wealthy.
He's, yeah, yeah, the twin.
Yeah, yeah, LaSonia, Lassonia, and Laquanda and Letitia and LaVisa and Levata.
They all got mad with him.
So the most anodyn, feeble, pathetic Steve Martin joke in the history of Steve Martin, even worse than his performance in the lousy old Pink Panther things.
He has his little dweeby-nothing joke.
He has to prostrate himself before the world for it.
This, this, I don't want to be told by the enforcer identity group enforcers, by the sort of big muscled dons of the identity group mafia, that yes, you're tiptoeing around daintily like a little ballerina on your eggshells, but it's still not quite dainty enough.
You've got to tiptoe even more daintily and lightly because the eggshells are getting thinner and thinner and thinner because they'll never be thinner enough.
And these guys turn on their own.
Why doesn't Steve Martin stand up for free speech?
There's nothing wrong with making a joke about Lasonia.
What the hell's wrong with her?
Why doesn't he stand with Justine Sacco?
Why doesn't Steve Martin say, Justin Sacco and I, we just made a couple of lousy jokes.
Why don't you give her a job back?
Why liberals?
These are liberals.
I don't have a dog in this fight.
I like them all.
I'd like it if liberals just all took out each other over this stuff.
But why don't liberals realize you can never walk on eggshells thin enough for these guys?
Mark Stein for Rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein for Rush on the IB Network.
Let us go to Jeff in Lake Ozark, Missouri.
Jeff, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi there, Mark.
How are you?
Hey, I'm doing great.
You've got a touch of some part of the British Commonwealth in your voice somewhere.
Where are you from?
Oh, no, I'm actually from Missouri.
Really?
I thought that's really odd.
I thought you must be doing an impression of me.
I thought that I had a touch of Australia or South Africa or something in there.
I apologize.
I've been in my topic, but no, that's only because I've been living down there the last two years.
Oh, right, right.
Okay.
Boxing day go by without talking about the Boxing Day test match, can we?
Oh, right.
So this is a cricket conversation.
This is a cricket conversation, exactly.
Oh, okay.
I'll let you talk about it's Boxing Day, but like you must realize Rush affiliates, like there's like 600 and something stations that carry Rush.
Every 20 seconds you talk about cricket, it's going, it'll be down by, it'll be down to about 47 affiliates by the end of this conversation.
But yeah, that's right.
I've sort of become a cricket convert living down there for three or four years.
I mean, I also know that you're a pretty big cricket fan yourself, are you not?
Yeah, that's right.
And in fact, Australia and England were playing on Boxing Day.
But what you must bear in mind is that it's not Boxing Day in Australia any longer because they're whatever they are 16 hours ahead.
So it's already Christmas Bank Holiday Friday.
Or the Hog Friday before Hogmanay or whatever.
They had a great start yesterday, sold-out crowd at the MCG and all the works.
It was a great day.
I kind of wish I was down there, but here I am enjoying winter for the second time this year.
Yeah, that's new.
No, I think it was England were 226 for six.
That's right or six for 226, as the Aussies would say.
They flip it around.
Yeah.
Do you call the Brits?
Yeah, no, no, but that's the thing.
So in England, they'd say 226 for six.
In Australia, they'd say six for 226.
That's right.
And if you're American, you have no clue what either of those mean.
I sure didn't when I got it down there.
No.
Well, that's that's great.
Do they, yeah, I don't even know how you watch cricket here.
Do they have it on ESPN?
No, I don't stay up at like 2 a.m. in the morning on ESPN 45, you know.
Really?
It's like after it's like the channel that comes after the Golden Girls dubbed into Spanish or something like that.
That's exactly right.
Yeah.
That's great.
Well, thank you.
Thank you for giving me a bit of Boxing Day cheer.
And oh, I'm just looking at the number of affiliates that have stuck with the Rush Limbaugh Show.
And we're actually down to 17 affiliates now, Jeff.
So I'll have to go before we're actually not on the air if we do any more of this cricket talk.
Great to have you.
Great to have you with us, Jeff.
Happy New Year to you and Happy Boxing Day.
Thanks for calling.
Mark Stein for Rush.
We have lots more on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, including rare non-cricket content coming up in just a moment.
I'm just trying to keep a track of where the celebrities stand on this Duck Dynasty thing.
This is like your rock free speech and rock and roll update.
Aerosmith's Joe Perry defends the right of the Duck Dynasty star to express his opinions.
Kiss Frontman Nikki Six does not.
He says, no, Kiss Frontman Paul Stanley, I beg your pardon, Kiss Frontman Paul Stanley also has blasted the suspension of the Duck Dynasty star, but Motley Cruz bassist Nikki Six says it's hate speech.
It's hate speech.
Did you ever think, by the way, that the rock and roll is supposed to be the big iconoclastic.
You say you want a revolution, you do this, do that.
Got to be free, got to be free to do my thing, got to be free to play my music my way, and all the rest of it.
Motley Cruise Bassist now says, ooh, that's hate speech.
You can't say that.
This is a rock band.
Ooh, you can't say that.
This is a rock band.
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