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Jan. 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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And it's the fastest three hours in media.
It's the best three hours in media.
And there's only one of them left.
In the whole day and in the whole week.
It's Friday, folks, and that means live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
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Open line Friday.
That means when we go to the phones, you get to talk about whatever you wish to talk about.
No limits.
Monday through Thursday, you have to talk about things I care about.
Otherwise, you don't get through.
Here's the number, 800-282-288-2, and the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I really, I feel bad.
I I took the call from the young 11-year-old girl Michelle, and I just could not McKenzie, I'm sorry, and I could not understand what she was saying.
And uh the transcriber was having trouble uh understanding what she was saying.
And uh plus there was the time crunch.
She um she wanted to know if the character Francis Billington was real, or if we'd made it up.
And I just want to assure the Billingtons were extr they were very real.
Francis Billington, a character in Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, is one of the pilgrims, his father, John Billington, there were three Billingtons.
The the father was a real malcontent.
In fact, um they were they were the troublemakers.
The Billingtons, the Billington family were the troublemakers on the Mayflower.
Uh Francis Billing.
It's in it, he's a bad boy, and McKenzie was intrigued by the guy.
And she wanted to know if he was real or not.
And yeah, McKenzie, he was a real bad boy.
Field a musket on board.
I mean, the the the pilgrims had to live.
Many of them lived on the Mayflower for months after they arrived.
There wasn't a hotel.
They had to live on the on the ship.
And uh this kid was a huge troublemaker.
His father, John Billington, uh, was he was tried by a jury and hanged for the murder of uh John Newcoman, another pilgrim.
It was the first execution to take place in Plymouth Colony.
And uh William Bradford writes, it's about 40 years of age.
But the whole bunch of Billingtons were a bunch of, you know, there's always a miscreant in every group of people, and the Billingtons were the troublemakers.
I mean, they were the if it was Leave It to Beaver, uh, they were Wally.
Not Wally, who Eddie, they were Eddie Haskell.
They were Eddie Haskell.
In fact, Francis Billington Mackenzie, if you're still out there, Francis Billington.
After they all went ashore, Francis Billington went exploring soon after their arrival and discovered a body of water that's now known as the Billington Sea.
But I thought here here she's 11 years old.
She's reading the book, and there's a bad boy, this kid, Billington.
She's one.
Did you make him no, no, actually, very real.
Now we sent her a Ted T. Bear and the audio version.
I didn't have time to tell her we were going to do that on the air, but Mr. Snerdley did.
No, no, not Beaver Billington.
It was Francis Billington.
John Billington was the father, Francis Billington, the the malcontent kid son.
And uh it's it's it's a fast the speed well, she also mentioned the speed well, which was uh uh boat prior to the Mayflower, which they ended up not being able to take wasn't big enough number of problems with it.
Look at this is all great because here she is, 11, and she's literally learning the truth about in a way that she enjoys.
I'm telling you, folks, I cannot describe for you what a home run it is to hear these kids call and talk about this with me.
Because who knew how this was gonna work?
I mean, I never written kids' book before, but it's um it's turned out to be it's turned out to be just a great experience, and I love it every time they get through here and and have questions about it.
Anyway, welcome back.
Uh again, open line Friday.
Before we get back to phones, I want to let's resume with the audio soundbites.
Just pick up where we left off.
And that would be at number six.
Uh yeah, I think we played all the Schumer we need to play.
This is Mary Ann Marsh.
This is this morning on the Fox News Channel, America's Newsroom.
And Martha McCallum is speaking with a Democrat strategist in Boston, Marianne Marsh, about Obama blaming Fox News and me for the fact that Republican voters don't like Obama.
And Martha McCallum said, I wonder if it doesn't go back to health care to minimize it and say my plan is better for everyone out there, if only these folks at Fox News and Rush Limbaugh wouldn't stop clouding my message.
They would understand that my plan is better for them if it weren't for Rush and for Fox.
It's a bit condescending, don't you think, uh, Mary Ann?
The more Republicans don't work with him, the more opportunity he has to take executive orders to go out there and say, Republicans aren't working with me.
When they're not, I'm gonna take action.
We're already in the election, right?
It's the midterm election.
The President's gonna act when it is gonna act, and both parties are going to try to get their bases up.
When you look at the composition of a midterm election, lower turnout, but Republicans turn up more, Democrats are going to try to drive up their turnout better to get more seats in the 2014 election.
Okay, then what Marianne Marsh just did here was give up the game.
You heard what she said.
The game is the Republicans aren't cooperating.
And so the President has to go the executive order route.
The more the Republicans don't work with him, the more opportunity he has to take executive orders.
So you set the Republicans up as obstructionists.
And of course they are obstructionists because of me in Fox News.
And somehow this then justifies Obama violating the Constitution.
You see, it's incumbent upon the Republicans to agree with him.
It is incumbent, it's required, it's mandated the Republicans move in Obama's direction.
Not that Obama should move in theirs.
What happened to all this bipartisanship I've been hearing about?
Governor Christie's demanding that we be bipartisan and that we work together, and practically every other Republican.
They sound like a broken record.
Cross the aisle, work together, be bipartisan.
Well, the only problem with it is the Democrats don't get the message.
This bipartisanship is and always has been a one-way street.
And bipartisanship does not mean compromise.
It does not mean agreement, does not mean cooperation.
Bipartisanship means Republicans cave and give up everything they believe in.
Let the Democrats have what they want, and then we'll praise you.
And we'll call you bipartisan and we'll we'll praise you for being cooperative.
And this, Governor Christie, is why people don't want to hear you talk about it.
Because they think it all it means is you're gonna cave.
And you're gonna keep walking to beach with your arm around Obama.
And that's not what Republican voters want.
So here it is.
She just gave it up.
Republicans, obstructionists because of Fox News and Limbaugh.
And this then leaves our poor young president with no choice but then to violate the Constitution, Martha, by doing his executive orders.
Now we move earlier in the day.
Fox and Friends, Brian Kilmead speaking with uh Steve Ducey about this.
Killmead said, hey, says this, according to New Yorker, the issue has been the inability, this is Obami's quoting, the inability of my message to penetrate the Republican base, so that they feel persuaded that I'm not the caricature you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh.
But I'm somebody who's interested in solving problems and is pretty practical.
And Deucey responded.
So the president needs to blame somebody for his fallen polling numbers, and so he blames Fox.
Yes, it's not just falling poll numbers, it's Obamacare and tatters as well.
And that's another reason why Chuck Schumer is out uh trying to uh resurrect the notion of giant government all encompassing doing wonderful, magnificent things because big government is failing people left and right, and in their daily lives that they are living.
It's beyond theory now.
Now it's reality.
Big government can't do health care.
They're making a total mess of it, which, by the way, is by design, but it's another story.
And as such, Schumer's out there said they've got to resurrect this reputation of big government.
Kilmead still talking to Deucey says uh that the very first thing that Obama did was to go out and attack me again.
You know, if the president is frustrated in in getting through to the other side, the problem is not the messaging.
The problem is the message.
Simply, a lot of people in this country don't like the direction things are taking.
And remember, the first thing the president did is uh say Rush Limbaugh is the face of the Republican Party and seemed to have a problem with them, and it's also written up in a few biographies are already out on the president and his first administration.
Now, what what Kilby is referring to there is that there was a meeting that Obama called in the White House two weeks in, two weeks after he was immaculated.
And he has a congressional leadership up there.
He's got Boehner and Cantor and uh whoever from the Senate, Mitch McConnell, he's got a bunch of sixteen or eighteen of them in there.
And he he said he said to him, you guys have got to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
That's not how things get done in Washington.
That that was 200 nine, and that's what Kilmead's talking about.
So that's they they keep going back to it, obviously because of their focus group and polling data.
Still on Fox and Friends, Deucey now speaking with the legal analyst at Fox News, one of them, Peter Johnson Jr.
About the uh never mind that.
I forgot that that was about what Snerdley is asking me about the specific Obama quote from the New Yorker, and the quote, this is this is what Obama's quoted as saying, and this is what they released yesterday.
The issue has been the inability of my message to penetrate the Republican base so that they feel persuaded that I'm not the caricature you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but that I'm somebody who's interested in solving problems and pretty practical practical.
So Snerdley's saying, what what what president cares about getting the base of the other party?
That they never do that.
I understand the question.
Why is Obama worried about the Republican base?
Well, who is Obama?
What is he after?
He's got this messianic complex.
Remember what they said about Bill Clinton?
People that knew him well said if he walks into a room of a hundred people and 99 love him, he'll spend time with the one who doesn't trying to convert them.
So I don't know if the same dynamic is at work here with uh with Obama.
I just think this is a uh Remember the premise here, the premise of this interview.
We've shared with you excerpts of the premise of the interviews.
Obama's the greatest thing that's ever happened.
Obama got 44 consecutive months of job growth.
There's been an economic rescue.
We have saved the day.
We got us out of a rock.
I mean, this country was a mess because of Bush, and Obama saved it, but still, despite all of these wonderful, just unprecedentedly great things.
These Republicans still don't like him.
And they should, because he's such a great guy.
And he's such a smart guy.
And he's done such great things for people, saved their health care, saved their jobs, save their economy, got this uh country out of war in Iraq and is getting us out of Afghanistan.
Everybody ought to love the guy.
Why don't the Republic?
Limbaugh, Fox News, that's why.
So that's the premise.
Snurdly is sitting there saying, what president ever ends up being loved by the base of the other party?
None.
But that's just Reagan.
Well, actually, yeah, Reagan, you you might make the case, but Reagan did pull that off 49 state landslides.
And the uh so-called Reagan Dem, but the Democrat base hated his guts.
Always.
Forever hated his butt guts.
Uh this is just I don't want to get into any more psychoanalysis of Obama.
That's better things to do with our with our time.
Uh Dr. Uh Dr. Karma uh also has thoughts on this.
Let's see.
This would be last night on the Kelly file.
That would be Meghan Kelly.
She spoke with Dr. Kratima about uh Obama's New Yorker magazine interview, and she said earlier this week we heard him blame sinking poll numbers in part on race, and now we find out that he's blaming the gridlock in Washington on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
It's rather unseemly if you are the commander in chief, the leader of the free world, and the most powerful man on earth who could reduce pieces of the planet to a cinder on his command to get so whiny.
You've got ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, of course, MSNBC.
You've got Hollywood that's sympathetic.
You've got the major newspapers.
What do you have on the other side?
Fox News and Talk Radio.
And you've got a president of the United States complaining.
But that explains the failures of his administration.
So Dr. Krathammer is also puzzled over why would Obama like David Brooks, probably curious too.
Look, this guy's got the sharpest crease in his pants we've ever seen.
Why is he worried about Fox News and uh and Rush Limbaugh?
Of course, the answer what what the answer one more time is it's the 2012 or 2014 midterms, and they're running against Fox News.
They've got trouble with their base.
He may be able to reduce some country to cinders, but he hadn't been able to do it to America yet.
They are salivating over winning the House this year, folks.
That is task number one.
They need their base turning out.
Their base, Obama's own party, has lots of people in it that are disillusioned because of Obamacare.
Because they don't think he's gone far enough.
They don't think he's gotten us out of Gitmo.
They don't think that he's punished the rich enough.
There's all kinds of things that are unhappy with him.
Yeah, the NSA that's spying on people.
There's all kinds of people on the left that are upset with him, and they gotta get those people to turn out in November.
And so that's what Fox News and Rush Limbaugh does gin up vote turnout to the Democrat base.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Coco.
Coco, you gotta send out a website notification alert today.
There have been plenty of stuff that qualifies for a safari website notification.
We just activated it yesterday.
I'm all jazzed about this.
So now he'll send one out.
Okay, here's Donna in uh Meridian, Idaho.
Hi, Donna, glad you waited.
Hi, Rush.
This is Donna.
Uh my husband and I love your tea.
We call it our private stock.
Well, I I love that.
Thank you very much.
What's your favorite flavor?
Um, mine is just the sweet tea.
My husband has tried your peach.
He loves it.
So that normally we order just sweet and unsweetened.
Yeah, yeah.
Cool.
Very good, very good.
Um, I called because I taught in academia, and I would um have my colleagues and students quote the New York Times or CNN or NBC, and um then I would quote you, and they would roll their eyes or snicker or make snide comments, and they just tended to marginalize me until finally I said, Don't talk about my boyfriend that way.
Well, how old are these uh young skulls full of mush?
Well, they were they were in junior college.
They were um usually freshmen and sophomores.
Yeah, why were they rolling their eyes?
They didn't even know what they were rolling their eyes about, didn't they?
Yeah, yeah.
That's what I thought.
And so and of course my colleagues knew what they were doing, but the minute I started saying, don't talk about my boyfriend that way, they'd shut up and they'd listen to me.
No kidding.
That's all it took.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then they started listening to you, and then um well then they they're that I'm sure their minds began to change then after that.
Well, it's you know, academia.
I guess that didn't happen.
Yeah, well, look, hey, Donna, hang on.
I I want to uh uh I want Mr. Snurdy to get your address.
Uh you tell him your favorite tea, because I want to send you and your husband each a case.
Don't don't hang up here.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbo, the EIB network.
And back to the phones we go to uh Burnt Hills, New York.
Rick, thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Good talking with you, Rosh.
First of all, I'm a first-time caller.
I've listened to your show and other shows for over 20, 30 years and finally decided to make a comment here.
Well, and I would like to say that the humor you play while we're waiting to get on the air is absolutely hysterical while you're on commercial breaks.
I was laughing so hard, had to catch my breath a couple of times.
Yeah, those are all the old parodies that we uh have used on the air for 25 years about.
As as I've gotten older, I've been a business most of my life.
I'm just about 60 years old now, and I'm an old school type guy.
And as years have rolled by, it just amazes me the lack of common sense and intelligence the average person has out there in society today.
But I look at our media and the Republican Party.
I'm a registered Republican, have been my entire life.
And I can't believe the opportunity we're letting go over this Obamacare.
As we are proceeding through this year, many people are getting their cancellation notices.
I've already been informed by my insurance company as of August 1st, I will be a non-renewable policy.
And the majority of families out there, middle class America, are going week to week, paycheck to paycheck.
They got mortgage payments, car payments, utility bills, taxes, and they don't have any money left over.
And unlike the government, that isn't responsible at all for the bills they absorb and they can pay without having money they don't have.
It's gonna bankrupt the majority of this country within another year to two years.
And I can't believe the Republican Party isn't talking about the financial devastation that's gonna come to everybody in this country.
Well when people start facing two and three time premium increases.
What's your opinion on that?
Well, um, let me play for you a sound bite.
You say that you can't believe the Republican Party isn't talking about the financial devastation that's gonna hit so many people in this country when they start facing all these premium increases.
You can't believe that, right?
No, I don't hear it in mainstream media at all.
Well, uh last night, John Boehner, the speaker of the house was on Jay Leno, uh the Tonight Show.
And let Leno Leno said to him, I want you to listen to this with me here.
You'll listen to it on on the on the phone, Rick.
Leno said, it just bothers me when people take such joy in seeing something fail, whether it's Republican or Democrat.
It's not like we're working together as a nation.
And to me, that's what makes people give Congress an 8% approval rating.
Let me analyze the question.
Here's Leno, who, God bless him, folks, he's trying.
He just a low information political thinker.
He's a great guy, but he just is t it bothers me when people take such joy in seeing something fail.
There's no joy, Jay, in seeing this fail.
There's a there's a little bit what there's there's sad Jay, people's lives, just like Rick here just said, this is destroying people's Lives.
We want this program to go away because of the damage that it's causing.
There are there's nobody out there celebrating because this is Obama's thing and it's going south.
And anyway, you heard his question.
He asks Boehner about this.
So nobody's working together, and there are too many people that want this to go south, and that's not good, John.
We should be working together.
And since we're not working together, that's why Congress only has an 8% approval.
And here's what Boehner said about that I'm rooting for it to be a failure.
It's just what I never thought it would work.
So far I'm right.
Yeah, well, okay, but it is the law.
Oh.
I said that the day after the 2012 election.
Obamacare.
It's the law of the land.
Oh my God.
You know, thought that I was uh you can't believe the noise I heard.
Yeah.
But it is the law.
And uh, but it's not working real well.
Well, that uh Rick, there's your answer uh from the Republican leader.
The reality of it, Rush, is you know, I I have been for years buying my own medical insurance being self-employed, along with paying both sides of taxes with Social Security, a lot of other expenses the average person, unless you work for yourself out there aren't aware of.
And I've gone from an $800 a month premium to a replacement policy as comparable as I can find about $2,000 a month.
Now that's $24,000 a year.
That's after tax dollars.
They mean to get out of someone make like $38 grand a year to pay $24.
That's a full-time job for somebody just to pay medical insurance.
Yeah, but it's the law of the land.
You heard there's nothing you can do about it.
And if you complain, then you know it's the law of the land.
Well, I guess I'll just keep my income down and go on Medicaid, right?
Well, that's what a lot of people are doing.
A lot, in fact, a lot of San Franciscans, a lot of Obamaites are actually strategizing how they can lower their income so as to qualify for subsidies.
And in fact, four out of five enrollees in Obamacare are getting subsidies.
And so far, as best anybody can tell, the overwhelming majority of people signed up are people already had health care who have now signed up for a subsidized health care.
So the costs are not going down.
They are spiraling up against the elderly and the seasoned citizens who are signing up and getting subsidies, four out of five of them.
So um Boehner said he never thought it would work.
Never thought it would work, but it is the law of the land.
I said that.
I said that, and you would have thought that I was committing treason.
No, the the party was supposed to shut up because it was the law of the land.
Boehner said, What do you expect me to do about it?
It's the law of the land.
Don't call me a traitor.
I didn't do it.
Okay, I don't like it, but it's the law of the land.
So don't bitch to me about it.
That's what Boehner's saying to Republicans through Leno.
Leno's saying the same thing.
Boehner said, it's not that I'm rooting for it to be a failure.
I'd never thought it would work in the first place, so far I'm right.
But then Leno said, yeah, yeah, well, okay, but it's the law.
And then their applause starts.
And Boehner says, Oh, I said that the day after the 2012 election, Obamacare, it's a law of the land.
My God, you would have thought that I was a and then Leno said a traitor.
And Boehner, you can't believe a noise I heard.
Boehner, but it is the law, and it's not working out real well.
So it's law of the land.
The noise the other meaning from the Tea Party.
Tea Party members of Congress is what he means, and then and voters.
But this law of the land business, uh, you know, it only works one way.
When the Democrats don't like the law of the land, they just to hell with it.
Certain marriages or what they just break it.
If they don't like the law of the law.
We are supposed to sit.
Oh, it's the law of the land.
It's untouchable.
We can't.
Immigration policy, the law of the land.
Oh, no, it's not, it's wrong law, it's bad law.
Well, so's Obamacare.
Yeah, but it's the law of the land.
You can't touch it.
So let's go backwards.
Let's we got another Boehner soundbite.
This is uh also on the tonight show.
Leno said, tell me about the Tea Party, because you seem to get frustrated with that.
They're what, 18%, something like that?
Yet they seem to wield such enormous power.
Why is that?
I don't have any problem with the tea party.
Those people have brought great energy to the political process.
Most of them have never been involved before.
When you agree with someone 90% of the time, they're not your enemy.
My problem was with some Washington organizations who purport to represent the Tea Party, who uh I think mislead them.
There's nothing I could do that was ever conservative enough for them.
I told my colleagues in July, I didn't think shutting down the government over Obamacare would work because the president said I'm not going to negotiate.
And so I told them in August.
Probably not a good idea.
Told them in early September.
It was a very predictable disaster.
You know, this shutdown business has taken on a life of its own.
It's become something it never was.
It has supposedly did great damage that it didn't.
Hell the government was shut down for two days this week because of snow.
Government shuts down all the time.
This is problematic, however.
Um let me this this phrase, there's nothing I could do that was ever conservative enough for them.
That is so instructive.
I mean, that tells me that this is all personal.
In addition to whatever policy disagree, this is this is personal too.
And that's never that's never good.
At any rate, it's uh obscene profit time, folks.
And we'll be back after this.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, isn't our current immigration law the law of the land?
Right.
And our current immigration law is the law of the land is not being uh enforced.
Correct?
But it's the law of the land.
So uh what's wrong with it?
Well, I mean, we can't change it, right?
And yet Boehner wants to change it.
Well, I have a story right here.
This is from Matthew Boyle, and I think this is Breitbart.com, and the headline, House Conservatives plot takedown of GOP leaders' amnesty plans.
And here's the story as House Republican leaders prepare an immigration proposal.
House Republican leaders that uh prepare an immigration proposal that could go much further towards amnesty than their prior public stances.
Conservative lawmakers are quietly plotting to push back.
AIDS from over a dozen House orifices secretly convened yesterday on the Senate side of the Capitol at a meeting organized by Senator Jeff Sessions of uh Alabama, a top immigration hawk who has recently involved himself more aggressively in the affairs of the lower chamber.
Over here in the Senate, working for Senator Sessions, we learned a lot last year about the strategies employed by the powerful forces pushing bad immigration policies and how to counter them.
Reads a copy of the invitation to the meeting provided to Breitbart News by House Stafford.
So, I mean, the upshot here is that you take a look at any national poll, immigration, reform, amnesty.
It's nowhere near the top when people are asked to name the most important issues they think facing the country.
No reason to do this.
And yet the Republican leadership is as desirous and as action-oriented, if not more so, than the Democrat majority is in pushing for amnesty.
Yet it's the law of the land.
But the House Republican leadership wants to go for it.
Now we know why.
Chamber of Commerce and moneyed donors.
Donors to mainstream Republicans are saying they want amnesty.
They need the new cheap labor.
They can't keep going like this.
They need it.
They can't do anything they can do to get it.
And if it takes amnesty, fine.
They don't care about the cultural impact or the rest of it.
They just need the labor.
And these people depend on these donors for re election, and so that explains it.
Yet it's the law of the land.
Now, I would describe people pushing this against the will of the people as thugs.
I've always thought of thugs as bullies.
And when in the modern vernacular, I mean the most time I use the word thug, I happen to be talking about union thugs or jack booted government thugs.
But did you know that thug is now the new N-word?
Thug is used by racists who can't use the N-word because it's not proper.
So they say thug.
And that that's what Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks is.
Now Richard Sherman is young.
And remember, most people's historical perspective begins with the day they were born.
It's just it's natural.
The stuff that's really important in the world happens when you're alive.
That's what everybody thinks.
And the stuff in the past, that's uh it's important, but it's not really nearly as important as what's happening now.
But there's no this the thug is the new N-word.
Somebody better tell Madonna.
Because she used the N-word to describe one of her white what, kids.
On Instagram, that's right.
Uh let's see, uh what?
Shaman Mexico, we got a caller from Mexico.
Dave in Mexico, great to have you on the program.
What?
New Mexico, I'm sorry.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Good day, uh, Rush.
Uh I got two projects that I think would get people back to work in this country.
One of them is, you know, from coming from the Midwest, you know that the Mississippi every year come springtime overflows.
Yep.
If we had the uh Army Corps of Engers have a project where they would divert most of that water that uh uh destructs most of the people on the Mississippi, have it shi uh, you know uh Connell tunneled over to the Midwest, where maybe we could have reservoirs with hydroelectric power to use that water and also to give the water to the farmers.
On the West Coast, you hear a lot about California going into a drought.
Yeah.
I know it's expensive, but we have that big Pacific Ocean out there.
Why don't they have uh high uh um solar power power, the uh desalinization?
You couldn't do it with solar power.
You the only thing, I mean, you really need nuclear reactors to pull off desalinization on a significant level.
Um it is nuclear reactors that uh desalinate ocean water and submarines, the Saudis, those are nuclear reactors.
You couldn't do it.
Solar, we don't know how to harness the energy yet.
And the environmental swackos are not gonna allow solar, and they're not gonna put up with taking salt out of the ocean.
That's nature.
And diverting the Mississippi, that's work most Americans won't do.
So nice try.
Folks, thanks so much for being with us today, and with uh each and every day here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Have a great weekend.
And just play it cool this weekend.
Pay no attention to the news if you don't want to, we will.
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