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Jan. 22, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 22, 2015, Thursday, Hour #2
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So I'm getting peppered with questions from all over the place.
Hey Rushy, aren't the referees ultimately to blame?
Isn't it, for example, their job to make sure that all the rules are being followed in uh in real time?
Well, the referees uh this it's it's complicated.
The referees give the footballs the stamp of approval, two hours and fifteen minutes before the game starts.
As you know now, each team brings its own balls to use on offense.
And by the way, do you know who spearheaded that rules change, Mr. Snerdley?
Tom Brady.
If Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in 2006 went to an NFL owner's meeting and I think it was an owner's meeting, they addressed the competition committee.
And he said, you know what?
You know, every player, every quarterback likes his own feel on the ball.
Some of them like them brand new, some of them like them old, some of them like fat, some of them like a little thinner.
Um we'd really like the rules to be changed so that each team could bring its own footballs, the ones we're used to practicing with and playing with, and the rules change was instituted.
It's that recent.
It used to be that the home team provided the balls.
So no mat no matter where you look at this, you you end up at Tom Brady.
And and so it's and now Belichick has thrown him under the bus.
I mean, everybody's writing, even USA Today is either mildly or directly or whatever, and Belichick just, hey, don't ask me, quarterbacks in charge of this stuff.
The quarterbacks, they're the ones that want to do with the balls, you'll have to ask Tom about that.
So Tom normally meets the press on Friday, but they've moved it up to four o'clock this afternoon today.
Now, after the balls leave the riffs at two hours and fifteen minutes before the game, I think they are checked at halftime again.
I don't recall off the top of my head how often during a game the balls are checked to make sure that they are in proper condition and uh properly inflated.
I don't know how often it happens at all.
But uh Grab Audio Soundbite number ten, like I say, NBC went out there, found a ball boy on the Today Show today, his name is Eric Kester.
Ball boys are the employees of the teams.
They are not employees of a league.
And Eric Kester had this to say about his job.
Deflating the balls right before the game after inspection would have been very difficult.
At that point, thousands of people are pouring into the stadium.
Officials, media, TV crew members are everywhere.
The altering of the ball is definitely coming from the quarterback's end.
For them, it's it's really all about how it feels coming off their fingertips.
Well, okay, so here's somebody else now throwing it right at in this case Tom Brady.
Well, I don't know how you'd do it.
Look, deflating a football.
Here's the thing about this.
Deflating a football is not all that easy.
You have a, I'm sure you've seen these the needles that go in basketball or football, and you stick the needle in without a pump, and that will deflate it, but if you don't have a gauge, you don't know how much air you're letting out.
It has to be totally on the basis of feel.
In the Patriots case, eleven out of twelve balls were found to be underinflated.
But I don't buy this notion it would be hard to do because so many people pouring in.
Let me ask you, the last time you watched a football game, either at a stadium or on TV, when's the last time you ever saw a camera showing you what a ball boy is doing with the ball at any time other than Running up and down the sideline, picking up a loose one and throwing the official a new one.
By the same token, this guy says, hey, there are too many people.
You got TV people on the sideline, you've got coaches, you got the fans sitting real close.
If I guarantee you, if your average fan or TV exec happened to see a ball boy who would automatically be accorded respect, he's there.
He obviously has to have passed muster, security muster.
So if a if a ball boy is spotted putting a needle into a football for a couple of seconds to deflate it, who's going to think anything other than, wow, man, look at how precise they play this game.
You see, they could take some error on that football.
Who's going to think that they're cheating?
It could be done under broad daylight, and a number of people could see it and not think a thing of it until now, of course.
So my point, getting it done, even on the side, I don't think it would be that hard to do at all.
Let me ask you this, folks.
How often do you think NFL players?
Can I say this gracefully?
Are the kids back in school?
Okay.
How often do you think NFL players hear the call of nature during the game and can't possibly get to the locker room in time?
What do you what do you think?
I'm talking number one here.
What do you think happens?
Player in need is surrounded by fellow players.
They form a tight circle, and you cannot possibly see what's going on.
And it would look like a meeting.
It would look like the offensive unit huddling.
Off from the sideline, discuss this happens, I don't think it happens every week, but happened in a Super Bowl once with the Fordiners.
One of the linebackers just emergency city couldn't wait to go to the uh told the story, laughed about it after the game.
Point is you can get this stuff.
If somebody wanted to deflate the footballs, obviously it's been done.
Obviously, it's not that hard to do.
Obviously, the Colts complained about, oh, that's another thing.
Do you know who actually started this?
Is the Ravens.
The Ravens apparently told the Colts, you guys keep a sharp eye because we think they're playing with underinflated footballs.
This goes way, way back, even before November 16th, when the Colts were in there, as Phil Sims says, the coats.
So there have been people gunning for the uh for the Patriots ever since spy game, and they've been gunning for the Patriots anyway, because they're the top dog.
They're consistently playing better than any other team.
And so they're naturally going to be the uh be the targets.
Troy Aikman, Hall of Fame quarterback Dallas Cowboys, now an analyst on Sunday afternoon Fox coverage, was on Fox Sports One America's pregame.
They've got a cable sports channel, Fox Sports One.
And Mike Hill was the co-host, said to Troy Aikman, as you mentioned, Tom Brady does not like to wear a glove on his throwing hand.
He wears a glove on the other hand.
Quarterbacks now.
So what what uh what are the chances that Brady didn't even know those balls were not inflated properly?
I can't imagine uh anyone doing anything to the footballs uh without the quarterback having uh knowledge of it.
I I know based on my experience and knowing how much effort went in to trying to get the balls as game ready and yet still fall within the guidelines of the NFL rules uh was challenging.
And there's no way that anyone would have done anything to the game balls without discussing it with me first.
And so I can't imagine that Tom Brady did not know uh that air had been taken out of the balls.
My guess is it was his it was his request.
Uh it's the way he preferred to throw with them, and that's why it was done.
Well, you can see what's shaping up here.
John Madden leads off last night.
Brady had to be the guy doing this.
He's the guy touching the ball.
He's the guy throwing the ball.
You want to find out why they're deflated, go ask Brady.
Now here's Troy Aikman.
Now here's the ball boy saying, Well, quarterbacks are in charge of Tom Brady thrown under the bus by his own coach Belichick today.
So and by the way, something I said uh yesterday and the day before, it Believe me, the league is hyper worried about this.
Coming on the aftermath of blowing the Ray Rice situation, and how badly that was said to have been handled.
And all of the other off-the-field problems where the league has been handing out suspensions and so forth.
I guarantee you this comes under the category of integrity of the game in a big way.
Now, in the real scheme of things, this is what's got some people curious.
Why even do it?
You're playing in the Indianapolis Colts in a championship game.
They really, unless you suffer major injuries, that the Colts are not going to win the game.
You don't have to.
You don't have to, you don't have to go outside the rules for an edge in this game.
Why did they do it?
Jim Gray was posing this question on Fox today, the well-known sports expert that's uh been ESPN and NBC says, why do it?
Nobody has the answer to this.
There's an answer to it.
There's an answer to why do it.
It's it's cultural in a number of things.
But the league, one they have got to get this right.
Whatever they have got, and they've got they've got to get the full story.
They've got to have the full story outright the first time they say this is the story.
And then if punishment is required, they've got to do that.
Now there's a big move on within certain circles that all of this should happen before the Super Bowl, and that if there is any penalty that it be handed out on the Patriots so that they would be affected in playing the Super Bowl.
There's another school of thought that says no, don't hurry.
Take your time, get this right.
It's not gonna you don't have enough time to get it right before the Super Bowl.
Don't even try, just take your time, get it right.
But I do not doubt me on this.
This is a huge deal.
In the real world scheme of things, it's not a bit.
It didn't affect the outcome of the game.
It's uh but it's a rules violation.
Integrity the game, and I tell you, they are worried at the league about getting this right.
They understand the reputation of the game going forward is on the line for a lot of people, a lot of entities.
And it's it's it's got I mean, all hands are on deck for this one at the uh at the league office.
One more before we go to the timeout.
Richard Sherman.
You know, the Patriots played the New England Patriots, uh, the Seahawks back in 2012.
It was in Seattle.
And in that game, the Patriots are part of a West Coast swing, and they played uh, I think at Oakland, and they stayed out there, went up, played Seattle and had to go down and play San Diego.
And uh that's not normal.
Normally you come home after each game and you fly back on the day before the next game.
The Patriots were favored in this game over the Seahawks.
Richard Sherman, and the Seahawks ended up winning it by a point.
Richard Sherman, after the game said, hey, you know you think it's Tom Brady is his Mr. Pretty Boy, he's not Mr. Pretty Boy.
This guy's out there trash talking us.
He's acting better than we are, he's putting us down only, he's not the guy you think he is.
That's what Sherman said two years ago after they played.
At the Seahawks facility yesterday in Renton, Washington, Sherman said a little more.
People somehow get a skewed view of Tom Brady, that he's just a clean cut, does everything right, and never says a bad word to anyone.
And we know him to be otherwise.
So you see what's shaping up here, folks.
I mean, it is you know human nature being what it is.
You know how many people jealous of Tom Brady?
You know how many in the league out of you know how many people have just you know what?
It's just human nature.
People in the Schadenfreude win the when the chosen failed people are rejoicefully happy and so forth.
But there have been people been jealous of Brady and envious of Brady, and they're just they're just pigs and slop today.
They're so happy.
And that's that's why all of this is uh is heading that way.
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Back to the phones we go to Naples, Florida, and this is Richard.
Richard, great to have you with us, the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, gotcha, taking my call.
He bet.
Uh question regarding these uh stuffed footballs.
Uh I find it hard to believe that you had a uh defensive back make an interception, and then all of a sudden feel that the ball felt kind of funny.
Who besides the center and the quarterback handles the ball almost on every play?
Either what, the line judge or the field judge, right?
Uh it mean a line judge referee, any number of them touch it every play.
And nobody had a problem with it during that game.
Well, the reason why DeQuell Jackson, a safety for the Indianapolis Colts.
Remember, the Baltimore Ravens clued them in to be on the lookout for it.
All the way back in November.
Now, apparently, folks, this is spygate.
The the Patriots illegally videotaping the other team sideline.
Apparently everybody knew that was going on for a long time.
And nobody said anything about it.
None of the opposing teams anything about it.
And then Eric Manini, who had been an assistant coach to Belichick at New England, goes to the head coaching job at the Jits.
That's as O.J. Simpson used to pronounce it, the Jits, when he was in NBC.
And they had a game against the Patriots at Old Giant Stadium, and uh the Patriots beat the Jits.
And it was after that game, during that game, that Man Gini finally blew the whistle.
And he had credibility because he had just been on the Patriots coaching staff.
Everybody had known about this.
It's just that Man Gini went public with it in the middle of the game, forcing an investigation, and the Patriots video taping was shut down in the middle of the game.
I think that's how it went.
He might have brought it up after the game.
I think it was during.
Well, here, what we've come to learn is this deflate gate thing has been going on for months.
Apparently the Baltimore Ravens alerted the Indianapolis Colts to it back in November.
And the Colts looked out for it, found examples of it, kept the balls to show people.
Nothing was done.
And so in the championship game, uh last Sunday night, DeQuackson intercepts a Brady pass and keeps the ball, and then once again sends it up the chain of command on the Baltimore or the Indianapolis sideline, and then it that's how it finally became public.
But it's one of these things that didn't just happen Sunday.
It's another one of these things that's been going on for a long time, but nobody said anything about.
And all of a sudden, somebody has said something about it.
Which has now resulted in any number of former players popping up and saying this, that, and the other thing about, oh yeah, like Brad Johnson, the Buccaneers.
Oh, yeah.
I used to tip the ball boys to get those balls away.
I liked them.
That was originally reported, though he was bribing the ball boys and he's gone public.
I didn't bribe anybody, I was tipping them.
I asked them to take care of the balls for me.
I wasn't doing it illegal.
It got reported he was he was bribing uh ball boys.
So, but the referees you wouldn't know.
Uh I don't know that anybody could spot a pr uh improperly inflated football in the heat of battle like that, just by virtue of touch.
If you're not using it every play, if it's not part of what it's not part of what the officials do is touch the ball.
So that doesn't surprise me.
The officials wouldn't notice it by touching it.
I mean, he would have to really be soft and and deflated to the point to be thrown out of a game if that was the case.
Ken in Lavonia, Michigan.
Hello, sir, great to have you on the program.
Yeah, Russ, uh, Thanks for taking my call.
Um earlier you mentioned that the uh State of the Union address uh that President Obama had given uh had uh fewer viewers than in the past.
And I just wanted to address why I believe that to be the case.
Um the reason why I didn't watch it, the reason I believe millions of others didn't watch it, is because unfortunately President Obama has proven through his entire presidency that he never speaks the truth.
He never gives the facts when he uh opens his mouth.
I mean, we can remember Rush's famous statements that uh if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
If you like your health care plan, you can keep your house.
That's exactly right, it's exactly right on the money, 100% right.
And uh even now with global warming or uh uh climate change, uh he promotes climate change as a fact when uh we know it's a fraud.
Uh not uh forget what we learned out of England when uh all that information was made uh made available on the internet.
It's sad, Rush, but uh again, we have a president that lies.
He lies and lies and lies, he never tells the truth.
I think that's definitely part of it.
I I I would agree with you a hundred percent on that.
The uh actual truth is this is the second lowest rated State of the Union since Nielsen started rating them.
The the absolute lowest was Bill Clinton's in 2000.
And then this is the second lowest.
I think you're absolutely right.
Nobody is interested.
They're not gonna hear the truth, they're just gonna be pontificating.
I think you're exactly right.
There's just not a high degree of trust.
And clearly, uh now, folks, this is another fascinating thing to me.
There's no excitement.
There's no eager anticipation.
There's no, man, this is our president's business Obama, man, he'd better none of that.
It's all gone.
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I want to clarify something.
I I have fallen prey to something that I actually don't believe.
I've fallen prey to saying something that I actually don't believe.
I do not believe that Bill Belichick has actually thrown Tom Brady under the bus.
Everybody's reporting that because in his presser today, Belichick said, Well, you have to talk to Tom about all of this.
You know, the quarterbacks like the balls the way they like them.
And I don't know anything about it.
I've never talked about air pressure in 40 years in this league.
I've never talked about air pressure in a ball.
I don't have any idea.
You'll have to talk to Tom.
And everybody has jumped on that comment as whoa.
Brady has just been thrown overboard by Belichick, which does not happen.
And I don't think it's happened here.
Brady's gonna have a press conference at four o'clock.
And my guess is that there is a strategy involved here.
And that's a pretty informed guess.
What it's not informed.
I've not, I don't know what they're doing.
I mean, it's a well-educated guess.
That there's some kind of strategy here uh to beat this back.
Uh I just but but I do not believe uh I've seen these guys.
I don't believe Belichick throw Brady under the bus like this.
I just don't believe it would happen.
So even though it may look like that, I don't think that when this is all over, that is going to be the uh perception of it.
Now back to the phones and go, where are we headed?
Uh there was somebody up there I just wanted they're gone.
All right, let's go back.
Who yeah, all right.
What was he gonna talk about?
Well, the the guy that just dropped off, what was he gonna ask me?
It was a good Well, the if the officials it doesn't matter.
The officials are not gonna they're passing the ball around and holding on the ball, not expecting the ball.
Without without any probable cause, the officials aren't gonna have any suspicion here.
And it last thing the officials knew in this case is two hours and fifty minutes before the game, the ball's all checked out.
They gave him the stamp approval and they sent him out there with the bullboys, and that's that.
I don't think it's gonna focus on the officials.
Although, although when it comes time for somebody to pay the price, when it comes time for the NFL to hand out suspensions or punishment, who better than some referee nobody's ever heard of?
Who better than a couple of wine judges, side judges, and what have you for not paying proper attention?
There'd be some little obviously punishment for the violators if that's found to have occurred.
Uh will we see PSAs, NFL about properly inflating your balls?
You mean like the PSAs we get on on spousal abuse and so forth.
I doubt that.
We might get uh PSAs just on playing by the rules in general.
I don't know, time will tell.
Whatever their crisis managers tell them to do.
Here's uh Pete Carroll.
Pete Carroll is the coach of the Sea Hags.
My pet name for him, Seahawks.
Last night on CNN tonight.
Rachel Nichols, interviewing Carol said, You are uh one of the 32 stewards of the game, Pete, as one of the head coaches.
How important is it that these coaches relentlessly protect the integrity of the game, Pete?
It is ultimately absolutely important.
We've seen the power of the league and how every turn of issues that have come up, you know, one right after another, people have looked to the league for leadership.
You can see the league and the league office working to figure out what is right and let's stand for what's right.
And when we make our mistakes, we admit to them and we fix the situation and we send the message that that's the right way to do things.
And so we'll see what happens with this.
Right, right.
Seahawks, they're gonna use this as a mental edge.
They'll use this, this is another tell the players, all right.
We know they're gonna cheat against this guys.
And that just makes our job even harder.
They're gonna try to cheat, they're gonna do it.
You can see I can see, I can see Carroll setting it up even now.
You know, stop and think.
Uh if if you have any doubt when I tell you that they are all hands on deck at the league office on this because the integrity of the game, don't forget what happened with with with uh Bounty Gate and the New Orleans Saints.
Now, the head coach of the Saints, let me just remind you, is a guy named Sean Payton.
And it was learned as a result of investigation.
They didn't just rely on Sean Payton's word.
There was a thorough inside out investigation, and Sean Payton was found to have not known Bounty Gate was going on in his own locker room and was nevertheless suspended for a year.
Because he didn't know.
He should have known that something is egregious as Bounty Gate was going on.
And he didn't know, and their investigation didn't turn up any evidence that he did know.
The investigation the league conducted turned up nothing to indicate that Sean Payton had any idea what was going on that he was behind it or anything, and they suspended him for a year.
They suspended a lot that the defensive coordinator was kicked out of the game permanently until they decided to let him back in the game as the defensive coordinator for the Rams, Greg Williams.
I think he's still with the Rams, but anyway, Peyton, the head coach, was sent packing for a year and had no knowledge of what went on.
And that was why, because what went on was supposedly so damaging to the integrity of the game.
Well, okay, here we come this deflate gate, and it's Belichick today.
I had no idea what was going on up there.
Tom Brady.
I had the slightest idea.
I never conduct a conversation about air pressure to football to 40 years in the league.
There's gonna be a lot of people here wanting to see some consistency.
When this I guarantee you this in the league office, you would not want to be there right now while they're trying to figure this out.
Now let's go to the media for just a couple of things.
John Berman is an anchor, a Ken Doll over at CNN.
And he's on sometimes in the morning and sometimes he's on in the afternoon.
And yesterday he was on in the afternoon.
A program they have called Newsroom, and the anchorette was Brooke Baldwin.
And uh Berman hosts a program called Early Start.
He was the guest.
She said this just says two CNN anchors talking about this.
And Brooke Baldwin said, you know, John, you're from Boston.
You love all things Boston, including the Patriots.
You wrote an op-ed for CNN.com saying you are ashamed.
I kid you not.
This guy, an anchor for CNN actually went to the CNN website and wrote an op-ed talking how ashamed he is to be a Patriots fan.
Do you think this guy would ever, ever write an op-ed about a sh how ashamed he is to have voted for Obama or Clinton?
But no, he couldn't wait to get in there and write his op-ed talking about how ashamed he is to be a Patriots fan.
It's awful.
It's awful.
Someone involved with the Patriots had to take air out of those footballs.
That is against the rules.
That is cheating, and cheating is bad, and they would have cheated on the way to the Super Bowl.
I shake in my converse high tops right now over the thought that Tom Brady had something to do with this.
My God, folks.
You get my point here?
These guys are humiliated.
They're nothing but fans.
They're embarrassed.
They're humiliated.
Oh my God, my team cheated.
Oh no, they might go to the server.
My team cheated.
I can't deal with my quarterback.
Do you think that either of these two who idolize Bill Clinton or Barack Obama would ever as much as wring their hands over some of the transgressions and rules violations that have taken place under Obama and Clinton?
No, but boy is so worried.
Oh my God, they're so worried about the example what the Patriots have done here is setting for our children.
It's got four.
I'm wired to root for the Patriots.
I cannot help but do it.
I do not think others should.
I can't help myself.
I'm a lost cause.
Okay.
I'm a lost cause.
But my sons, you know, I'm gonna have a talk with them.
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say you you know, cheaters should never prosper.
You know, you should not be here cheering for a TV.
They're gonna say, but Daddy, you're you're rooting for them.
But Daddy, you're rooting for yeah, I'm rooting for the cheaters.
What do you mean cheaters never profit?
Take a look at the Oval Office.
This is my whole what do you mean cheaters never profit?
Cheaters never practically Hillary Clinton.
Cheaters never profit.
Look at Al Sharpton.
But these people will never ever feel embarrassed over what their buddies in the Democrat Party.
Oh, no way.
But they're so embarrassed to be Patriots fans.
I feel their pain.
It's so bad.
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This is Matt in New Orleans.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Fogus Awley Gay Guido's from New Orleans.
Commissioner Goodell has a very good blueprint to deal with Belichick and the Patriots, as he did with the Saints.
But the difference is he actually has the allegations proven now with the Saints.
He he accused them of doing something on Wednesday and proved all his evidence said they did something on Thursday.
It was a big non sequitur.
It never ever lined up.
And it's it's horrible that uh that the Patriots can actually cheat in a in a championship game and get away with it.
You know, I uh I m I must ask you a question just so I can be clear here.
You are are you asserting on this program that the Saints did not actually do anything illegal, that they did not actually do bounty gate, that the whole thing was made up, it never happened, and nobody ever proved it.
Is that what you're saying?
No, it was all uh it was all a a uh uh shell game.
What they had was uh was a a performance incentive program where if you got a big play, you would get this, or you would do that.
It was never based on injury.
That's horrible.
Well, I know, but the problem is that they had a video.
They had a video of the defensive coordinator in a pregame meeting against the Fordiners, and he was instructing the defense.
I'll never forget I I saw this myself, I could not believe it.
He said inside ACL.
I'll I'll never outside ACL.
When you go for this event outside ACL.
And I said, My God.
But he didn't say I'll give you a hundred bucks if you do that.
Uh no.
Well, it was uh that was uh was the was the crux of the deal that it was on bounty gate.
It wasn't that that they were.
Anyway.
Now look, we uh here's the point about the Saints, as I'll I'll reiterate it.
You're you see, the fan here's claiming they never proved it was money changed hands.
Coach can say go after the outside ACL all day long.
But that guy's outside ACL wasn't gone after in the game, by the way.
Nobody went for the guys outside or inside ACL for that matter.
I don't think there even is one.
Um that's what anterior means.
But anyway, the coach was after investigation shown to have had no knowledge of whatever went on and got suspended for that.
He was suspended for a year for not knowing what was going on in his own locker room.
So here you have so here's a Saints fan still burning up over that.
And now demand, hey, the Patriots have admitted it.
We got a problem up there.
We know they cheated, they better get treated the way our team did.
Well, I mean, from a fan standpoint, you can understand the uh passions and emotions.
Bob in uh Villa Park, Illinois.
Great to have you, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
Great to see you here with us.
Yes, Russ, I did some research on the uh the low air pressure and uh Patriots' balls and discovered uh that according to a science teacher that there's a a uh physics law, Gyla Sachs or G-La Facts Law that describes the relationship between the pressure of a confined gas and its temperature.
To make the uh long story short, if the balls were inflated at seventy degrees to twelve and a half pounds of pressure, game time temperature was forty-nine degrees, according to the science teacher that uh the balls would lose one and a half pounds of pressure, and since the excuse me, no cough button here, since the league didn't check the Colts balls, I mean uh case closed.
Uh the b uh temperature and barometric pressure caused the balls to the ball.
Well, no, no, no, no.
Uh uh uh I'm not sure it's accurate to say the Colts footballs were not checked.
Well, uh, I think the Colts balls were measured after all this happened and were found to be within the legal uh range.
Is your point being that the balls would have naturally deflated because of the weather conditions?
Yes, Russ.
I was underprivileged and I grew up in the uh the cold of uh Chicagoland here.
We go outside uh in the springtime with our basketballs, we couldn't bounce them.
Right, yeah.
Yeah.
So uh that's I remember when that used to happen to me playing basketball as well.
Unbelievable twenty degrees.
Well, no, I do.
I do.
Uh have you ever studied the impact of illegal immigration on farm communities in California uh in temperature ranges of sixty-five to eighty-five degrees?
Uh no, but I'll bet there's fewer of them when it's 35 to 45.
Well, probably so, but the point is you haven't taken the time to study it, but you did.
Look up the physics of an inflated or inflated football.
Says it all.
Just makes my point.
Mr. Snerdley informs me that we've had uh at least one person get through to him, angry and irate from the stick to the issues crowd, who could not believe that I had not yet mentioned this outrageous vote in the Senate yesterday.
Ninety-eight to one supporting the claim of global warming, and instead talking about deflate gate.
This program, folks, has never known any boundaries.
That's the thing about this.
We can talk about anything you want on this program.
What we do is talk about what I care about every day.
That's what drives this program.
Find this fascinating.
In a whole lot of levels, and particularly for you stick-to-the-issues crowd types.
I have done my best to relate this to uh standard ordinary everyday news events.
But this a three-hour program.
Now we're gonna get some of the stick to the issues crowd stuff uh in the upcoming hour.
And there's some doozies in this stack.
So you just sit tight, be patient, hang in there and be tough, and don't doubt me.
I know what I'm doing.
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