The substitute broadcast engineer gives me a mini monologue when he tells me it's time to go.
And I just well, here we are.
And we're back.
L Rushbaugh 800-282-2882, the email address rush.
Oh my god, I don't believe this.
I do not.
Where is this from?
Holy smoke, Belgium.
Why, that's a Western European democracy.
That's where they're really smarter than we are.
That's the kind of country we want to be, right?
Obama spoiled Brussels right at NATO and uh all of Oh my God, I can't believe when I'm looking, I can't show you this.
I can't gonna put this up, snurtly.
There's no way.
But I tell you, I'm just gonna folks, greetings, by the way.
Welcome back.
If Leland Yi saw this, can you imagine what his reaction to this was?
By the way, we're getting the audio of what it was that set him off.
Uh Cookie's cutting it now.
And it was basically it was Hu Jintao, and he was in town, and he was speaking, it wasn't translated.
It was just and I started imitating Chinese.
And I threw in, I know I can't remember specifically, but I threw something in in English while doing the China, and it was, and they they just got ticked off.
I was mocking the Chinese languages, making fun of it.
That was racist and bigoted, and I should be censored, uh thrown to the pits, uh, what have you.
Yeah, they tried to start a boycott and everything.
But uh, what I'm looking at here, this is uh uh Belgian newspaper.
Let me just say it it uh folks.
We keep hearing that the Europeans are the sophisticates.
The Europeans are the kind of society we should emulate.
They are sophisticated and refined and responsible and so forth.
I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained pictures, uh fingers, pictures from a newspaper.
The DeMorgan is the name of the newspaper.
And they have two pictures on the left, it's Obama smiling, and it on top at the top of the pictures, first black president of the USA, and then underneath starts selling weed.
And then there is a picture just to the right, same size.
These are square pictures about three inches square.
They are color.
Notice, by the way, how adept and considerate I am in descriptions of things.
So you can visualize this.
It's a picture of uh Barack Obama and Muchel my Bell Obama, and the pictures have been photoshopped to where they look like the stars of Planet of the Apes.
In a Belgian newspaper, where Obama is today, our president being mocked.
I don't know if they're playing off Rumsfeld's comments that even a trained ape.
They're not.
You've read the story, it's nothing to do with Rumsfeld.
Uh it's it's it's it's a swipe at Putin, is what what the story is.
What what I guess okay, what this this is what Putin thinks of Obama, that he's dealing with a couple people in Planet of the Apes.
And then we have this story, the Huffing and Puffington Post, Belgian newspaper accused of racism for picture of Obama and Michelle as apes.
Now I'm not gonna show you these, but I'm not going there.
Even though Leland Yi is headed for jail, I'm not gonna be the one to show you this stuff.
You can vision, you know, you saw Planet of the Apes.
Just imagine Michelle and and Barack as characters.
And you you can imagine what this newspaper published here.
The headlines are gonna be Limbaugh enjoyed.
Disgusting.
You can just imagine it now.
Anyway, pardon the uh sniffles.
Great to have you back, 800-282-2882, and the email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
By the way, this paper uh apologized.
And they say they printed the picture as a joke under uh a Putin byline.
The paper was attempting to mock Putin and the two leaders' public fight.
The picture was posted under a Putin byline.
So this is what they tried to convey that Putin thinks of Obama.
Not them at the newspaper.
But they still did it.
They still did the Photoshop.
And they still published it.
Insophisticated Europe.
Belgium, headquarters, NATO.
Now I mentioned in the first hour of the program, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that the back end of healthcare.gov still doesn't exist.
Here are the details.
This from Fox News.
Much emphasis has been placed on enrollment statistics as the uh Obamacare inaugural open enrollment period comes to an end.
But there's a key function in the federal exchange, healthcare.gov, that remains inactive.
And that is the mechanism to reconcile payments between the government and insurance companies.
The back-end mechanism has been missing for the entirety of the enrollment period, which launched back on October 1st.
What that means, folks, is that insurance companies have had to manually bill the government for subsidies and cost sharing plans.
And this is understandably an administrative nightmare.
And they don't have the personnel for it.
It's supposed to be automated.
This is part of the any website that sells anything.
The back end records the sale to the seller so the seller can begin the fulfillment process and the collection process.
And that doesn't exist.
It's unbelievable.
It would be like if you went to Amazon to buy something and you clicked submit when your order was done, and you thought it went, but that's where it stopped.
Because Amazon doesn't go any further than you clicking submit.
It doesn't have a record of you clicking submit, and it doesn't have any way of fulfilling your order, and it doesn't have any way of collecting your payments.
So you sit there and you wait for your delivery and it doesn't come.
But you think you've paid for it.
And after a couple of days go by when it hasn't shown up, you call and you're all out of whack because you paid for it.
And it and they say don't have any record of your purchase.
And that's where people are who have purchased health care via the federal exchange, healthcare.gov.
Now, the the problem with this, aside from the obvious, is this insurance companies are threatening to pull out of Obamacare if this back end isn't fixed because they aren't being paid.
Here's the the last line here.
Um last paragraph illustrates why the insurance companies might back out.
Um person named Lazouski, Bob Lazowski, author of the Healthcare Marketplace and Policy blog, says that the missing back end is contributing to the lack of clarity over enrollment numbers.
They don't know how many people have signed up, folks.
They don't know how many have signed up.
They don't know how many have paid.
They don't have any record of that at all.
Here is a companion story before I get to this paragraph.
This is from the Daily Caller.
Nearly 40% of Washington Obamacare enrollees haven't paid.
This is a state exchange, not healthcare.gov.
They can't even blame the glitches on healthcare.gov for their problem.
This is the Washington State Exchange, where they can't even calculate that the 40% have not paid.
So now we know why the federal exchange claims they can't give out the numbers as to who has paid because they don't want anybody to know just how bad things are.
That's the real truth of this.
Sabilia Sun, well, yeah, we said seven million uh millions.
Well, how many have signed up?
Well, the numbers are Constantly in flux.
It's uh not a number that's uh it's not stagnant.
Numbers always moving.
Numbers always in flux.
Uh it's always changing.
People are signing up new every second of the day.
It's impossible to give you a number.
They can't give us a number because they don't know.
And Bob Lazowski said, I think most insurers are going to pull out of the program.
Everybody believes it's going to end up and be up and running in in a month or two.
And if it isn't, we're going to have an administrative nightmare.
If I were an executive in a program, I would pull out of this.
You can't run your business this way, meaning an insurance company.
We just can't.
You don't know what the premium is.
You don't even know who you're covering.
This is I don't know how to adequately describe this to detail for you what a disaster this is.
The frightening thing is that this is intentional.
The f the frightening that nobody's going to believe this.
The low information grab.
The frightening thing is this chaos, this mountain of problems for the insurance companies is by design, because the ultimate aim of the regime is to eliminate the insurance industry when it comes to health insurance.
Just wipe them out.
Because they want single payer.
They want everybody getting so frustrated at some point that they throw up their hands and just agree to simplify everything by putting everybody on Medicare, which has its own bureaucratic nightmare to deal with.
There is no panacea or utopia.
There's no fix or solution.
Well, there is.
That's not the right thing to say.
There is a fix if you get the right tech people involved, and if you get an honest system based on a specific set of goals, you could fix this fairly quickly.
But it's because the regime is just chalk full with people incompetent that don't know even what the objective here is, other than the long-term objective single payer.
But all this mess in the way of getting there, it's just it's an absolute disaster.
And it just frosts me.
I don't know what to do about this.
No matter how bad the government screws anything up, it seems like the people of this country are always willing to let the government fix it.
It seems like the people of this country have the idea or the impression that government's better at running health care than doctors and hospitals and health professionals, that government's better at running the energy systems and programs in this country than the actual energy producers.
I know part of the reason the Democrat Party has succeeded in convincing people that the private sector operators are a bunch of cheats and liars and fraudsters who are trying to kill their customers and the government cares.
I understand that, but at some point, everybody who interacts with government in some way has got to realize it doesn't work.
It doesn't do anything better than what takes place in the private sector.
And yet, people continue to invest their hope and their confidence in the government to run things that in this case, in the in the case of this administration, they don't have one person that's ever done anything successfully in the private sector.
So no back end on healthcare.gov.
No way of knowing who's enrolled, no way of knowing how many have paid.
The insurance companies have no way of collecting.
And they have three years to do this.
That is what makes it tough for me to believe that this is simply and strictly incompetent.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rush Ball, back to your phone here in just a second.
All right, here it is.
We found the we found the uh it's just a it's a 30-second little excerpt in my program, January 19th, 2011.
We had Hu Xin Tao in town, and he was speaking, and he was not being translated.
It was just out there.
And you know me, I'm a mimic.
I uh I'm an amateur impressionist.
Sometimes uh sometimes I'm spot on, and sometimes I don't get quite close enough.
But this this is what irritated Leland Yi.
Uh California, whatever he is, he was uh state's state senator.
Yeah, he's running for Secretary of State, but he's now uh is in is in handcuffs, uh in a raid taking place in his orifice.
But this is this sent the left into orbit when this happened in January 2011.
Just they just collectively had a cow over this.
Wanted to jip it because uh well, the Hu Jintao he was speaking and they weren't translating.
Normally, you have some translator for a couple of words, but Hu Jintao was just going...
Nobody was translating.
But that's the closer I can get to it.
That's it.
That's all it was.
They just went into orbit.
That it was mocking, it was insulting, it was making fun of, it was racist, sexist, bigot, probably even homophobic.
Uh a week later in San Francisco, Leland Yi had a press conference to talk about death threats that have been made against him after he had demanded that I be dispatched and apologize and all that.
All I did was to say you ought to just simply apologize.
Just do that.
Just to say that what you did was not right and that you're sorry about that.
And instead, uh, what we're getting now are these rather offensive, racist, horrible threats against uh myself.
And I have to say, I'm not gonna sit idly by and allow these things to happen without letting the general public this is going on.
So media matters went nuts.
They thought my they thought they had me again, folks.
They thought I was I just had to move right into the middle of a crosshairs.
And they just this was gonna be it.
This they're gonna get rid of me once and for all.
You want to hear it again?
You this on the other side of glass, they want to hear it again.
They're the ones who are always quaking in fear that I might go over the line and get and you want to hear this again.
Okay, Friday, grab audio soundbite number 20, I guess.
Since Leland Yi is in handcuffs, what can he do about it?
Wanted to jip it because uh well, the Hujintao he was speaking and they weren't translating.
Normally, you have some translator for a couple of words, but Hu Xintao was just going...
Nobody was translating.
But that's the closer I can get to it.
I was uh I was performing a uh a public service.
Do you remember all the trouble that that John Belushi got into when he was mimicking a Japanese when he did the samurai?
Well, no, he didn't get into any trouble.
That's the point.
Everybody laughed themselves when he's out there imitating samurai warrior.
They thought it was one of the funniest things they've ever seen.
Anyway, let's see if history repeats itself.
Let's see if they gin this back all over again.
Just like they did the first time.
In the meantime, we'll head back to the phones.
Doug in Denver, great to have you, sir, on the EIV network.
Hello.
Good morning.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Uh, you bet, great to have you here.
Uh you realize that uh the White House by pushing the data that was the metadata that was collected that you talked about in your first hour back on the phone companies.
They removed one of the safeguards that was built into the system to protect people's rights.
Uh wait now, wait a minute.
The the the phone companies removed one of the safeguards, did you say?
Well, by by push by the White House pushing the metadata back to the phone companies rather than store it to the NSA.
They removed one of the safeguards, and it works this way.
Um the NSA was collecting the metadata, which are just purely numbers.
You can go to that facility and say, tell me everything you know about Rush Schlimba or Bose Nerdly.
Well, you can actually learn quite a bit about somebody from metadata.
The The fact that the Yeah, but it's not it, it's not identifiable with the individual.
It's not identifiable with you or anybody else.
You have to go through two more steps to find out who the individual is.
Now by pushing that metadata back to the phone company, it becomes one-stop shopping for the government.
What do you mean now when the government has Because now when the government has a suspicious phone number or phone number that's flagged, they go to one place and get both the name and all the metadata and all the details all at one time.
This was built such that you could not query the system about an individual.
But you could query the system about a phone number.
Right.
You had to go through two more steps to get the identity of the individual.
So if you if you've got a phone number, for example, if you've got a phone number that's calling a brothel and a massage parlor and uh uh a marijuana farmer three or four times a day, you can pretty much figure out what somebody on the other side of that number is doing, just with the metadata.
But you don't know who that person is.
But you can't figure out who it is.
Well, but you have a good idea.
I mean, it's it's uh you're you're close anyway, you know whose number it is.
Once they tell you.
And that's that's the whole idea.
The way the system worked is you didn't you did not know whose I but now they do well, your point is now that they are they are identifying the names associated with the numbers.
Is that what you're saying now?
Now they're gonna keep all the data in the same place.
The name that's associated with the subscriber and the metadata is one place.
And you're opposed to this, is that right?
Um I don't have a I don't have a feeling on it.
Okay.
That's all I want to know.
Cool.
Right.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush limbaugh, you don't want to miss a word.
That's your attitude when you listen here.
I'm not telling you you don't want to miss a word.
I'm telling you what you're thinking when you listen.
Wow, I don't want to miss a word of this.
Sounding fantastic and fabulous as well.
Okay, some low information news here.
Just take a little break.
Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband Chris Martin of the uh rock and roll supercrooner group Coldplay are getting a divorce.
Uh that's how you and I would describe it.
They have released the news that they have consciously uncoupled.
With yeah, unconsciously uncoupled would be one of them having had an affair.
But consciously uncoupled is that's therapy lingo.
You know darn and and the actress, yeah, that would be Gwyneth Paltrow, has taken sh she's got a website called Goop.
And she's taken to her GOOP website to announce the separation, the conscious uncoupling from her husband of ten years.
Now they consciously coupled in secret in Meiko in December of 2003.
They also consciously coupled at least twice in the marriage because they have a daughter, nine years old named Apple, and a son Moses named Seven.
They admit that they have battled to save their conscious coupling, and they have even consciously uncoupled in a trial conscious uncoupling a couple of times, but it hasn't.
It hasn't worked.
It does sound kind of goopy.
Now, the the statement posted on the goop site that Gwyneth runs, says, We will always be a family, and in many ways we are closer than we have ever been.
Absolutely right.
That's what consciously uncoupling does to you.
It makes you closer than you've ever been.
This is exactly how they think in the New Age pop culture.
You split up and you're closer than ever.
Gwyneth, of course, has been forced to deny conscious coupling with others during the marriage.
That would, in your lingo and mine, be having a fear.
She was forced to deny it.
What I mean, forced.
Well, did somebody make her deny it or did she not did she not want to deny that she was having an affair?
Was she threatened or she forced to deny it because she did have it, but lied about it?
The actress has said on prior occasions, life is complicated, and life is long.
And I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extramarital affairs, and I want mine.
No, she didn't say that.
She just obviously having an extramarital affair is a bonus point for Gwyneth with some of her pals.
That's what that means.
And on her on her site called Goop, experts are now handing out tips for divorce, which is conscious uncoupling.
You know, if any was she famous for Gwyneth Paltrow?
What is she famous for?
You don't know what she's famous for?
You can't be serious.
You don't know what Gwyneth Paltrow is famous for.
Well, I'll tell you what, she looks exactly like Catherine Limbaugh.
That's number one.
She looks exactly that's the one thing she's famous for.
The other thing she's famous for, let's see.
Um, she at one time had a conscious coupling with Brad Pitt.
And they were known as Gwyneth and Bradeth.
And then Bradeth left Gwyneth in a in a conscious uncoupling and went over to um.
Uh no.
Uh.
Yes, Jennifer Aniston.
And and then it was Brad Janiston.
And then, and then who was in the Iron Man series?
Gwyneth was an Iron Man?
Well, I had no clue.
I've not seen it.
Don't yell at me.
I haven't seen Iron Man.
Cut me some slack.
And then after uh it came uh Brangelina, then Bradeth uh went to Brangelina.
That's basically what she's known for.
Bob Knight, former coach Indiana University, now over at ESPN, said the NBA has raped college basketball.
And they're not happy about it at ESPN.
Uh ever and in fact everybody, you know, the the sports drive-bys can get so sanctimonious.
And they just, I guarantee you that the sports drive-by, some of them martin literally, and they've been hiding it, just irritated that ESPN hired Bob Knight, because they've never liked him.
Because Bob Knight was an individual.
Bob Knight was never a conformist and so forth.
He was he was used discipline on the kids.
Some said he went too far, but but but then when ESPN hired him, they'd just been waiting.
And so now Knight is out there.
And he said that the uh the NBA is is raped college basketball.
What he means is they're they're they're taking players too soon.
Players leaving college, going to the NBA, college basketball suffering for it, but the sanctimonious drive-bys are having a fit that he would trivialize the act of rape by comparing it to college basketball or something.
How dare he trivialize something as horrendous and horrible and ooh, awful as rape by comparing it to basketball?
So they're they're they're lying in uh in wait.
ESPN spokesman sent along a statement.
We spoke with him.
ESPN regrets the use of the word.
And don't know what action that they're going to take.
Snerdley, you'll love this.
This is from the the week.com.
I'm just gonna read you the headline.
Middle school, I mean junior high, right?
Middle school girls have been banned from wearing leggings so that boys can focus on their school work.
Are my pants lowering your test scores?
Reads a poster at Haven Middle School in Evanston, Illinois, where students are protesting the dress code policy.
According to parent Juliet Bond, school officials recently enacted a dress code that forbids girls from wearing leggings, yoga pants, and shorts because it's too distracting for the boys.
The ban has ignited controversy among students and parents.
Many girls began wearing leggings to school in protest.
Over 500 signed a petition against the new dress code.
And they're being blatant blatantly open about these girls are just they're distracting these young boys and they're not studying.
They're just staring at the girls, and we've got to do something about it.
So they told the girls you cannot continue to dress provocatively like this.
And dressing provocatively equaled, uh having their legs visible.
Now they're going to cover them up.
And it it's even the parents are uh are protesting.
Quick call, Tim in Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Glad you called her.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Good afternoon.
Uh 28-year-old dudos to you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, very much.
Great to have you here.
Hey, I just want to make a quick comment on the Democratic polls from the recommendation uh for Democrats that they uh they talk about, you know, they this isn't what they're good for.
So I'm a Republican candidate against them.
I'm I'm ready for this.
I'm loving it because first of all, I'm pointing out the incompetence of my opponent.
Um really what's happened here is the the meat of the bill hasn't changed.
It's just the implementation of it.
Um, everything that was in the bill that they voted on is still there.
Um and then I'm turning around and with that I'm pointing out that you know this is a significant vote, too.
This is one-sixth of the economy.
And if what they're saying is this isn't what they voted on or they didn't understand it, well, you know, that's that's pretty uh, you know, pretty important to us as well.
Well, you've got good thoughts there.
The uh one thing he's folks, just to catch up here, uh Tim is replying and responding to a comment we had in the preview almost an hour ago.
Very quickly, Celinda Lake, Battleground poll, the Democrat Happened poll, has told Democrat candidates, do not defend Obamacare.
Do not defend it.
Just run and say you want to fix it.
And if you want to, you can say that you didn't vote for it.
Because it's changed so much, it's not what you voted for, and you can't be tied to it.
It's not what you voted for.
And what Tim is saying that the Republican response would be, I don't care, you people are still incompetent.
The guts of the bill are still the guts of the bill, and we wouldn't be dealing with this if you hadn't voted for it.
So that look, you're right.
There's all kinds of ways for the Republicans to knock that advice out of the park.
Well, I'll tell you what it's gonna come down to, Tim, and I hate to be this I don't I don't mean to to to be uh negative about it, but there is a screw of thought that the Republican establishment really doesn't want to get rid of Obamacare.
It's just there'd be too much work.
It's just it's all it's been signed into law.
It's being implemented, however, poorly, and it would be better just to uh change it and think, but they don't want to repeal it.
If that's true, if that's true, it's going to matter in terms of how they campaign against.
So if there's a if a Democrat candidate for Senate, an incumbent running for re-election uses this advice and says, hey, I'm not defending that bill is horrible.
This is not what I voted for.
This is not the health care that I voted for.
I don't support it.
I want to fix it.
The easy reply is we wouldn't be here if you hadn't voted for it.
Don't try to tell us you didn't vote for it.
You did vote for it, and that's why we're here, and that's why the healthcare system screwed up.
And that's why you need to be replaced.
Now, will the Republicans say that?
Because I mean, if if if if they don't, if their heart's not in repealing it, it's gonna be interesting to see.
Because you're right, Tim, there's a ready-made, I mean it's a hanging curveball.
That strategy that she's giving a Democrats.
I mean, I don't mean to say it's a winner, but it is something they can say.
Hey, I didn't vote for this.
But the retort to that is we wouldn't be here if you hadn't voted for it.
So don't try to tell us you didn't vote for it.
We are in this mess because of people like you.
And you need to be replaced.
Whether the Republicans will go that hard on it well, I just have to wait and see, folks.
I can't predict that.
I don't know.
You know what the real answer is?
If if you are a Republican, you're running in a uh in a race for the Senate against an incumbent Democrat, and if that Democrat thinks the advice I've been giving or Selinda Lake has been giving is good and says, hey, hey, I didn't vote for that.
The real retort is, how do you know what you voted for?
You didn't read it.
Remember it was Pelosi who said we've got to pass it to find out what's in it.
They didn't read the bill.
I wouldn't even let 'em off the hook with that's not what I voted for.
There have been so many changes in this law.
I didn't vote for you don't know what you voted for.
You didn't read the bill.
Your staff didn't read the bill.
And then they'll probably deny I certainly have read that bill and my staff's read the Oh, so you know what you were voted for.
Yes, and I did not vote for this.
You voted for something and it's given us this mess.
It's easy.
It'd just be easy to swap that down, I think.
Here's Jen in uh in Quorum, New York.
Great to have you, EIB network.
Hi.
How are you doing, Russ?
Just fine.
Thank you.
Great.
Great.
I'm I'm a commercial pilot, and I just wanted to say every pilot I know would improve would totally appreciate your Hu Shintau impression.
Uh when I was going for my instrument check ride, my examiner was this crusty old Irish guy that everybody knows, his name is Frank.
And uh one great story after another of all the beers of flying.
And I'm ready to take my check ride.
He calls up, we're in the plane, he calls up APC and say we're writing a taxi to the active, and he recognizes the ATC's voice.
And the next thing I know, these two guys are talking to each other in these most l ludicrous Chinese accents.
They're going, Oh, what's out?
I I nearly fell out of the plane laughing, and you gotta understand every plane within a fifty mile radius could hear this exchange, and you could hear guys clicking on laughing, and it was it was just great.
Are you telling me that an ATC, an air traffic control, uh employees actually engaging in this uh conversation with the uh the fake Chinese?
Yep, i it was it was it was hilarious.
It was hilarious.
And and Leland Yee must not have heard about this.
No, you know, and and uh no but I never nobody would ever say anything to it to this guy.
Uh well, everybody would know Frank.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Frank.
He's he's he's a legend.
He used to be a Wait now, wait, wait, wait, wait.
In your world, everybody know Frank.
Frank.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Frank's an instructor.
Uh uh, he's uh he's what's known as a DME.
He's an examiner.
Uh and he used to work in Africa uh chasing down uh poachers on this giant uh uh estate uh got shot at the same time.
Okay, so when you do your w what what what kind of airplane did you do your instrument check ride in?
I I did that in uh Cessna 172, and I did my uh commercial in a Piper arrow.
Okay, and what do you fly mostly now?
Seaplanes.
Uh uh Cessna 180.
Really, seaplanes.
You know what I've never understood?
I've heard it, I've never had it explained was getting up on step.
Oh, yeah, it it's I I I have um What is getting up on step?
I mean you gotta do that to take off, right?
What is it?
Yeah, yeah.
Uh that that's that's again, you you're you're clearing things, you're or you're uh um you know, you've got to watch for chop and the wave and stuff like that.
And uh I I've always said the only thing I fear about flying is drowning.
Uh because you know, um That's interesting.
The one thing you fear about flying is drowning.
Yeah, I mean, uh uh like like this Malaysian flight.
Um last week I was laughing with guys thinking that these two pilots had swiped this plane.
Uh but now, you know, they they found wreckage.
When they find those voice recorders, you're gonna find two guys trying desperately to save that plane.
They did a one eighty trying to get back to land, they just couldn't do it.
Uh and it's it's a it's a tragic thing.
I I I think you know has uh CNN reached out to you for this explanation.
Uh no, no, but I originally I I agreed with General Merkley that um I thought uh I thought they stole it, took it to uh Pakistan, and we're gonna load it up with uh uh WMDs, you know, uh 'cause there were so many things.
There's what's known as a uh uh uh an an ELT, which is an emergency locator transmitter.
Nobody ever heard that thing go off.
What what that thing goes off when your plane hits harder than uh you know, it's supposed to.
Uh you you you can i it's it's kinda like a vanair bag blows off at a certain velocity.
Yeah, it just call it a ping.
I mean that's what people think of it is now.
Everything's a ping.
I remember my first I don't have time to tell you the story.
It's it's kind of funny.
I'll I'll reserve it for the next hour 'cause we have to take a time out.
Thanks much.
We are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have this deadline being extended has nothing to do with the April fifteenth tax deadline and filing your penalty payment for um Obamacare.