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Oct. 16, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 16, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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Meeting ends surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Rush Limboy, your guiding light on Friday.
Let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday where callers have more leeway than they usually have in whatever it is they want to talk about.
Pretty much whatever you wish to talk about.
Question, comment, does not have to be politics.
It'll be anything.
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Before I get into this donation story, uh something happened yesterday that that once again once again demonstrates the effectiveness of these outsider candidates.
And that is this Ben Carson and Donald Trump both told CNBC to pound sand if they didn't reduce that debate to two hours.
The next Republican debates on CNBC, and it was scheduled for three hours.
And Trump and Carson says, screw you, we're not showing up.
And if we don't show up, you don't have a show.
Three hours is too long, two hours max.
CNN CNBC thought about it and they acquiesced.
What happened was that uh Carson and Trump campaign sent a joint letter yesterday afternoon to CNBC.
So it had the official appearance.
It was just a couple of phone calls, it was a joint letter, warning they would not participate in the debate on October 28th in Boulder, Colorado, unless it lasts no longer than two hours, and includes both opening and closing statements by the candidates.
Both opening and closing statements have to be fit within the two-hour window.
Trump's campaign manager told the New York Times the criteria that was outlined by CNBC was never discussed with any of the candidates or with the campaigns.
So what CNBC did was send out a memo and said, here's the criteria, as you have approved them, and then went out to all the campaigns.
We said, wait a minute, we never saw this, we never agreed to it.
And now another light shines on the Republican Party.
They agree to these debates with places like CNN and NBC, CNBC, and then they determine the format.
They tell the RNC what the format's gonna be, and the RNC says, Oh, okay, and shows up.
And Trump and Carson said, wait a second, we never saw this, we never approved this.
They thought the RNC had approved it.
Nobody did.
They just let CNBC write the format, structure the format without anybody having seen it.
Now Carly Fiorina, when she heard about this, she said, What are these two guys afraid of me?
You know what this means is that Trump and Carson both are admitting they don't have the stamina to go up against me for three hours.
Which is good.
I like that.
I like both sides of this.
The meanwhile, over here is the RNC.
Just non-factors.
It's amazing.
Now let's go to this donation story because this, folks, is also a teachable moment.
Let me first share with you some news story and headlines about this.
The New York Times is literally outraged over what they have learned.
The story is by Eric Lichtblau.
The headline, donations to Donald Trump's campaign outpace self-funding.
Story begins this way.
For months, Donald J. Trump has highlighted his credentials as a politician who was financing his own campaign for president, but no longer.
Mr. Trump revealed in a filing on Thursday to the FEC that the vast majority of the money he raised and spent this summer, as he rose to the top, came not from his own coffers as it had in the spring, but rather from $3.7 million in what he called unsolicited contributions.
Some 74,000 donors pitched in an average of about $50 to help Trump's campaign, he reported.
And they are livid.
They're livid because they think Trump lied to them.
They think Trump's out there saying, hey, I'm not going to take money from anybody.
I'm not going to be beholden to anybody.
I'm a rich guy.
I have $10 billion, maybe more.
Who can count?
It's the best ten billion dollars anybody ever had.
My billions are better than anybody else's billions, and I got more than anybody else, and I'm spending mine.
I'm not spending anybody else's.
Then they learn that people have been donating, and they think Trump has lied.
They think they got Trump.
They think they can expose Trump here as a phony baloney plastic banana good time rock and roller who has misled people.
But instead, what old Eric Lichteblau and the New York Times are inadvertently proving here is Trump's case.
Trump's claim has always been he's not going to sell himself to big donors like Hillary and so many other candidates do.
The people sending Trump money, 50 bucks, they're not expecting special favors from a Trump administration.
They know that 50 bucks isn't a get them Trump loyalty.
When Trump says the money's unsolicited, that's what really ticks him off.
People are voluntarily sending Trump money when he doesn't need it.
All the other candidates need it.
They don't have their own money.
Trump does, and people are still sending him money, and that just ticks them off.
From many standpoints, it isn't fair.
You know, in a socialist world, a guy that's got 10 billion ought to be giving his money away.
People ought not to be sending him money.
So it isn't fair.
Trump's got enough.
He shouldn't be getting money.
They shouldn't be sending him money.
It's not fair, it's not fair.
And then it just ticks them off.
Besides all that, that there are people so supportive of Trump that they would send him money even when he doesn't ask for it.
That scares them.
These are people, don't forget, who think Trump's still gonna bomb out.
These are people still hoping, still praying, still telling themselves that Trump has peaked or will soon and is going to fade, that Trump isn't in it to win, that he's not for real.
Some kind of trick is being played, he doesn't intend to go all the way, and yet every day there's new evidence that they're wrong about that, and they're having trouble coming to grips with it.
Mr. Lichblau of the New York Times then writes Mr. Trump himself contributed only about $100,000 in in-kind contributions, including rent space that he donated and payroll expenses that he covered.
That represented a huge drop from the spring when Trump donated about $1.9 million to his campaign, financing the bulk of it himself.
You know, it's funny, I don't remember hearing any of that, do you?
I don't remember anybody in the drive-by media reporting that Trump spent nearly two million dollars on his campaign in the spring.
You know, and I I try to keep up with the news.
My show prep knows no boundaries.
I'll go wherever there is news.
And I didn't see this.
So he spent his own money, like he said he was gonna do.
He's lent himself money, lent his campaign money.
Here's the story from the National Journal, which uh publishes the hotline.
Donald Trump's donors, not his bank account, fueled his magic summer.
The headline is just seething with rage.
You can see it, you can feel it when you read it.
Donald Trump's donors, not his bank account fueled his magic summer.
The candidate spent just 100,000 of his own money in the campaign.
Here's how the story begins.
The man who claims $10 billion in wealth barely spent any of it on his front-running presidential race this summer as tens of thousands of Americans pitched it, with $3.8 million enough to cover nearly all of Trump's expenses.
Some $2,200 donors gave at least $200 to Trump's campaign over the three-month period, totaling over $1 million.
The campaign said an additional $72,000 donors combined to give Trump $2.8 million, just an average of $38.73 per donor.
Folks, this is actually one of the ways to look at this is Trump accepts small donations.
He did not ask for them, he didn't solicit them.
He didn't spend a whole lot of money.
Look at Trump's campaign, two million dollars.
How much money has Jeb Bush spent on ad buys so far?
What the number I saw was 11 million dollars so far.
And it hasn't moved Jeb in the polls much at all, not significantly.
So Trump, small donations, didn't spend a whole lot of money, growing his lead for the most part in almost all states and nationally.
Now, it helps that he gets a lot of free media.
I'm don't misunderstand.
He engenders a lot of free media, but that's because the media love televising Trump.
Trump equals ratings, and so they enjoy it.
Jeb had to spend, I don't know, I don't know how much money in this.
I don't know how many millions Jeb has spent.
I'm I'm confused on the number, but it hasn't moved him off of fifth place for the most part.
I'll tell you what else.
This this is uh another really robust or glaring indication that Trump is just not your average ordinary candidate that everybody has come to expect or has been forced into liking.
This is all genuine.
Every dollar donated to Trump comes from enthusiasm.
There isn't any mandatory, obligatory giving.
These are people that want Trump elected, and they're willing to put their 38 to 50 dollars to work in that effort.
The important thing he's not soliciting it.
Hollywood reporter.
Donald Trump has spent less than two million dollars of his own money on GOP campaign.
They're all just seething here.
Trump was supposed to have been gone by now.
Trump was supposed to have embarrassed himself or humiliated himself, was some other way, some way supposed to have been sent packing by now.
Certainly he wasn't going to be able to secure a lead like this without spending any money.
These people are all from inside the beltway, including the media people, and the way you get anywhere in politics, you have to buy your way there.
You have to raise money, you have to spend that money on ads.
The donors get their take and and their pick of you whenever they donate to you, and then none of that is happening with Trump.
It's all outside the formula, and they're having trouble coming to grips with it.
From the Washington Post, a little quote.
Bush raised $13.4 million from July to September and started October with just $10.3 million on hand after spending about $11.5 million, or 86% of the total over the quarter.
Yeah, I knew it was around $11 million he'd spent.
Now, let's expand this and let's include the Democrats because the fundraising here is indicative of something.
I have the list of money that has been donated to all the candidates, both parties.
And it's uh folks, what what this, among other things, throw out what it says about Trump is what we've discussed.
You know, yesterday I was once again expressing my total incredulity and astonishment at how the Republican Party remains stubbornly opposed to making a connection with its own base and trying to grow its political fortunes.
And the the the whole thing of the establishment still thinks it's independence that determine who wins elections, and that's who you've got to pay attention to.
And that's who you've got to focus on.
And in the process, they ignore their own base, and in some cases, inside the belt, we even demonize their own base.
Now, when you look at this list, I got Bernie Sanders, he has raised the second largest amount of money.
The two leading fundraisers here are the two leading candidates who have raised the most most money, have the most donated to them, are Hillary and Bernie Sanders.
Hillary has raised almost $30 million.
And 17% of it is from donors of $200 or less.
Essentially, the vast majority of Hillary's donors are the standard ordinary big moneyed people.
Next is Bernie Sanders at $26 million.
And the percentage of that $26 million raised from donors of $200 or less is 77%.
If you combine the money raised by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, you come out with close to $66 million.
And I'm going to tell you what that spells.
That spells ass whooping on election day if the Republican Party does not nominate a conservative.
Because when you go through the rest of this, you will find all of this money on the Republican side, Chris Christie, 4 million, Jeb Bush, 13 million, Kasich, 4 million, Fiorina, 6 million.
The establishment candidates here are getting a lot of money, but nowhere near what the Democrats are getting.
The anti-establishment Republican can Carson, 20 million dollars.
He's the third largest fundraiser.
Ted Cruz, 12 million dollars.
Jeb Bush is in there at 13.
What the point is the Democrats are raising a lot of money.
There is a lot of enthusiasm for the Democrat candidates, either Hillary or Bernie Sanders.
It cannot be denied.
We cannot assume that everybody voting for one of those two is an idiot and a member of a minority or whatever.
They are fully energized, particularly the Sanders people.
I've got to take a break now.
Sit tight.
Do not go away.
Hey, look, let me summarize this for you without numbers because the numbers just confuse.
In this list of donations so far, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Lindsey Graham, the three of them.
Not only have they raised less than Ben Carson, whose total is 20.7 million, Jeb, Christie, and Graham, those three combined have raised less than Carson.
And all of it's coming from a few big donors.
There are not a lot of people represented in the money given to Jeb, Christie, and Graham.
Cruz has raised a lot of money, 12 million, and half of it is coming from donors under 200 grand.
So there are a lot of people behind Ted Cruz, a lot of supporters.
Kasich, $4 million, most of it from big money donors, not a whole lot of people there.
If the Republican establishment does not get off of the dime here and get off of this business that they can only win with independence, if they don't realize by looking at who's donating to who here, if they don't look at the strength of the Democrats and how many people are donating to Bernie Sanders, combined with all the huge donations Hillary is getting.
That money dwarfs.
You know, Trump's raised almost $4 million, and it's accidental.
He's not even asked for it.
Ben Carson at $20 million.
Cruz at $12 million.
Carly Fiorina, where is she in this list?
She's at 6.7 million.
The point is, it's not playing well for the Republican establishment with their focus on moderates and independents.
If they don't nominate one of these conservative candidates, then they are looking at another huge butt kicking.
That's what these numbers tell me.
Now, and by the way, that's not a surprise to any of us, is it?
They keep nominating these moderates, these Northeastern liberals, or whatever they think are going to get the independence, and they keep losing.
They've got victory right in front of them in the palm of their hand, and they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory every four years.
Sanders'money is roughly equal to the combined haul of Bush, Christie, Kasich, and Graham.
One Democrat's raised more money than those four establishment candidates.
What does it tell you?
It's doom.
Yes, I know.
I know.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna publish at rushlimbod.com the released list yesterday from the Federal Election Commission on candidates, the money they have raised and where it's come from.
And I'm gonna post it around my commentary here.
There are too many numbers for me to use here.
You can't keep track of numbers as you hear them.
But let me put this in perspective in in another way.
You take Bernie Sanders, who's second only to Hillary Clinton, but I count his $26 million as more powerful than her $29 million for this reason.
77% of the people that have given money to Bernie Sanders are people that have given less than 200 bucks.
That's a lot of people, folks.
That's a lot of enthusiasm.
Now you might say, well, yeah, but what if he doesn't get the nomination?
He's not going to get the nomination.
His people are not going to vote Republican.
And they're going to stay wired.
He'll keep them wired.
Bernie will keep them wired.
They will vote, or a good percentage of them.
If Hillary's the nominee, it depends on how screwed they think Bernie gets in this.
And they there's a lot of that now.
I mean, the Bernie Sanders people think CNN screwed their guy by proclaiming Hillary the winner.
They think that they screwed CNN screwed Bernie supporters by scrubbing supportive comments that they made to CNN's website.
So there is friction.
It's not automatic that Bernie's voters and donors, supporters are going to vote for the Democrat nominee, but they're not going to vote Republican.
Now just hang with us.
You've got Hillary at 29 million, almost 30, and only 17% of that is from people under 200 bucks.
The rest of her money is from foreign governments, big corporations, people expecting all kinds of payback.
Same kind of people donating to the Republicans.
So it's the Bernie Sanders number that we looked at here to gauge numbers and enthusiasm.
So if he's got 26 million dollars, 77% of it from people under $200 or less.
Bernie Sanders' money is equal to the combined donations of Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich, and Lindsey Graham.
It takes four Republicans, including the establishment's presumed front runner, Jeb Bush, Bush, Christy, Kasich, and Graham takes those four people to equal the dollars Bernie Sanders has raised.
But the difference is the number of donors that have given to Bush, Christy, Kasich, and Graham is tiny compared to the number who have given to Bernie Sanders.
And I'm just using Bernie because he's the top-raising Democrat from individual small donations.
The RNC, the GOP establishment seems to be not interested in small donors.
They seem to be all in for the big donors.
The Chamber of Commerce donors, big CEOs, corporate donors, because That's whose agenda they seem to be pushing.
The small donor types, the Tea Party types, the people that are giving money to Trump that he's not even asking for, the people giving money to Bernie or Ben Carson, 20.7 million dollars.
And by the way, 60% of Ben Carson's donors are of the $200 or less variety.
71% of Trump's donors are $200 or less.
So you look at Trump and Carson, and you can see the people supporting them are small donors.
I mean, the the people I'd always call the ones who make the country work.
Certainly not rich corporate CEO types.
And these are not people that expect some sort of issue-oriented payback.
They're donating because of enthusiasm ideas.
The corporate donors are donating because they want policy in return.
And that's who the party seems to be listening to, and that's how they're losing these presidential races.
So they lost in 2008, so they lost 2012.
And these numbers tell the same story happening again in 2016.
If the Republican nominee is not a conservative, if it's another one of these, I don't know, party preferred types, it's going to be the same story, at least on paper.
But there's plenty of time here for this to be digested and learned from.
Question is, will it be?
Okay, it's open line Friday.
Let's head back to the phones.
Cheryl, Newport Beach, California.
Great to have you.
I really appreciate your patience and hello.
Cheryl, are you there?
I am.
Hi, well, welcome to the program.
Okay, listen, who's next?
Uh, where are we going after Cheryl?
She doesn't want to talk.
Uh, let me try uh uh Eric and Margate, New Jersey.
You're next.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hey, Rosh, how are you doing?
Very well, thank you much.
Uh I just want to let you know, I think I wanted to talk about the Trumpster.
I think he's tapped into uh a lot of some of the Democratic voters because I'm a teamster back here.
And uh I was working with 30 Teamsters last night.
We put shows in and out in conventions and blow the trucks up.
And these guys, now, mind you, the only three of the 30 of us are uh Republicans, one's a libertarian, and the rest voted for Obama.
And these guys love the Trumpster.
They love it, they love how he wants to get rid of the illegals, which is going to help state they feel the illegals are taking our work.
Uh they love how he shoots from the hip and tells these other politicians off.
And they got if he if he becomes the nominee, they're gonna vote for him.
So I believe uh Trump is tapped into a to some of the Democratic voters, which uh people don't realize.
You are not you well, you're not the first person I have heard state that theory that and by the way, I should tell you, Eric, some of the people telling me this don't like it.
They're worried that Trump is appealing to Democrats, not for the reasons you gave, but but but for different reasons.
And uh Rush?
Yeah.
All he has to say is all lives matter and blue lives matter, and he'll have the police doing what he does.
All lives matter and blue lives matter, and he'll have you guys and the police.
Let me ask you, so you you're your teamsters, you obviously voted for Obama.
No, I didn't.
Okay, but they did.
Are you c are you close enough to answer some questions I have for you about them?
Or sure, go ahead.
I've been with them 15 years.
Are they dissatisfied with their vote?
Is it Obama let them down or are they happy go lucky?
They think it's everything's cool.
Which is it?
No, they they think the country's a mess now.
They won't admit it though.
They they they don't like admitting they're wrong.
That's part of the problem.
I get along with all these guys.
They're great.
They're great workers.
But they don't listen, most of the liberals they don't want to admit they were wrong.
Well, see, this is this is a point that I have been trying to make.
This is why they're so mad and angry and unhappy out there.
They've they got what they voted for.
They thought it was going to lead to whatever their definition of utopia is.
And instead, it's a disaster out there.
Nobody's doing well.
This health care thing is an absolute joke.
There's nothing free about it.
There's nothing affordable about it.
And it's just nothing that Obama has done has worked out.
And yet everybody went into this thinking so positively, my God, you couldn't get any better.
First African American president, Democrat gonna unify people, and we're in worse shape than we've been in years, and it's because of the policies they support that this has happened.
And that's why I think they won't admit it, you're right.
But I think in their hearts they know that's one of the reasons they're depressed.
They voted for every bit of this, and it doesn't work.
Anyway, take care, Ross.
Great to talk with you.
I appreciate it.
That's Eric in Margate, New Jersey, and we have a brief time out.
We'll be back and continue in moments, don't you?
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
And as usual, half my brain tied behind my back, just to be fair, we have uh an open line Friday question coming up here.
This is Wayne in Manhattan.
Wayne, I'm glad you called.
How are you, sir?
Hey Rush, how are you doing?
Bolshevik Bill's grand experiment in Manhattan.
All right, thank you much.
Uh so every day at work, I uh I take my radio and uh go outside and enjoy a cigar and I listen to usually the third hour of your show.
Yes.
And it's uh by far the best part of my day.
I look forward to it all day.
Thank you so much.
Lately I've been having an issue with my cigars, and I wanted to run it by you and see if you had any advice.
Um I have a good lighter, and when I light the cigars, sometimes I can't seem to get it lit evenly.
And so the cigar will smoke down halfway, you know, half of the of the tip will smoke down normally.
But the other half, it won't even light.
It'll stay like sort of like a giant hard black ash.
Yeah, yeah.
And no matter no matter how many times I I try to fire it up with the lighter, sometimes I just cannot get it to smoke evenly.
Okay, here's here's here's what I've learned over the course of many years cigar smoking experience.
I'm a connoisseur of an expert.
No two cigars are the same.
I don't care if they come from the same box, same factory, same roller, same day.
No two cigars are the same.
The draw is going to be different, the burn is going to be different, the uh uh the humidity, uh the moisture content of the cigar tobacco is going to be different.
I have what happened to you happen all the time.
Um it's either i the the uneven burn happens and half the cigars burning fine, the other half it just stops burning and turns black.
What I do is one of two things.
Either throw the cigar out or just light, just relight that part of the cigar which appears to have gone out.
I can spend let's say a cigar lasts me an hour, I can probably spend I don't know, twenty-five different experiences relighting it at various stages to keep the burn even.
If it's really tasting good, if it's worth it, then I will keep relighting what you're calling that part of the cigar that stops burning that's uneven.
It results from a plug and and too much tobacco that that's uh different density than the rest of the cigar, and you can't know it before you light it.
There's no way you can tell this is gonna happen.
So you either toss it and start anew.
If you like the flavor, you just keep lighting it to keep the burn even and keep going until it stops tasting good.
Then you pitch it.
Okay, well, I appreciate that.
I I was starting to get depressed, you know, but now I feel like if it's if it happens to you, I feel like, well, you know.
Oh, it happens to everybody.
It happens to everybody.
I I um uh and depending on the kind of cigar, you know, that as I say, no two cigars are the same no matter uh where they come from.
You can rely on brands.
There are really quality brands where the rolling is is is superb, the manufacturer is superb.
Uh it it's you know the w what you pay for the scar will generally tell you whether it's good or not, but even the most expensive cigars, you're gonna get bummers.
I I can tell you my favorite cigar right now, and I'm not gonna name it.
My favorite cigar right now, I throw away 25% of every box.
They just don't draw.
Wow, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to up my orders, I think.
Uh it's so it's it's it it's not unusual.
The point is you're not you're not you're not running it well, you are running into bad ones, but it's not you.
It's it's not unusual.
By the way, and I'm very particular.
I love cigars.
If the flavor isn't there the within the first ten minutes of lighting it, I toss it.
It's not gonna improve.
You'll know in the first five minutes whether you got a good one or not.
If it's not, toss it and start again.
It can be expensive to do that, but if you really like it and if the flavor matters, uh you you can find it is may take two or three attempts.
Yeah, I love the uh the Fuente Double Chateaux.
I smoke them almost exclusively.
I've been smoking for a long time.
Well, the Fuente, you can't go wrong.
The Fuente, the Don Carlos.
Have you smoked a Don Carlos?
Uh no, I haven't smoked to Don Carlos.
I've seen them in the in the humidoration.
You're not gonna have these kind of problems with Don Carlos.
You won't have these problems with Opus X. There's they're those are really expensive.
But you're the you're you're you're smoking your your uh double shadow.
Those the Fuentes are awesome.
So many of them are.
Um La Florida Minicana is uh is great too.
But even in in these, it's they're just it's just the law of averages.
In some they're hand rolled, they're handmade, and some of them you're gonna have plugs, you're gonna have a tough draw, and you can either stick wicked and get a hernia, or you can throw it out and light a new one.
Well, you should see the looks I get on the in midtown of Manhattan in an after on a beautiful afternoon with Rushly and Bob Laird from my little radio and cigar still.
Doesn't get any better, then I can well understand.
I can I know how much you want to enjoy that cigar.
Those of us who do, you really want it to be good.
And especially if you've had one that's really good, you want everyone after that to be good.
And you you can do that, but you might have to throw some out to get it.
Well, I appreciate that, Rush.
I was trying to think it was user error, but I I appreciate your advice, thank you.
You bet you do not think that it's only happening to you.
It's just it's a lot of products that way.
Sometimes people buy a car, it's a lemon, other times it's just smooth sailing.
Sometimes you order stuff on FedEx and it shows up right, next day it's all screwed up, like today.
You just never know.
You just have to keep hunting.
Find something you like, stick with it, and maintain your standards.
And if something same brand doesn't suffice, throw it out and start anew.
Here's uh Dave in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
What a thrill to be talking.
Thank you, sir.
I started listening you eleven and a half years ago by accident, and every show just got better and better, and I haven't missed one minute in eleven and a half years.
I dedicate three hours a day every day to your show.
Holy smokes.
I thank you for that.
But I'm a retired firefighter, and on this side I had an engraving business.
And I made a couple logos in that time.
And I'm your logo, it's just beautiful.
The blue and gold, the EIB radio network on top, excellence in broadcasting on the bottom, set in like a victory wreaths.
And I it's one of the nice logos I ever seen.
I was wondering if you designed that logo or if you how much input you had into the design of that logo.
I did not design it.
I commissioned it.
Way, way back in 1988, and there were a bunch of different designs submitted, and I chose it.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
I mean, I the the I if if I take credit for it, I guarantee you I'm gonna get sued.
See, you I I gotta be very careful here.
You this is you this appears to be a totally innocent question, but you could be the guy.
You could be the guy who designed it calling me, and if I lie to it, no, I we we commissioned it in all in all candor, and it's uh it has not changed.
Okay, so in the early days, in the early days, there was pressure to change it.
Russia, it looks like the Motel 8 logo.
Do you not understand that people do not see EIB, they see two eights in there?
I said, stick with it, they will.
Well, the excellence in broadcasting that I I thought maybe you um came up with that because it is.
It's your show is well, I d I came up with the name of the network.
I just, you know, we needed a name of the network.
I named it after my performance.
Excellence.
Absolutely.
And the and the logo, I mean I would love to tell you that I'm a designer in it, but no, we I commissioned it and people submitted uh their works of art, and that's what I chose.
I thought it was brilliant.
Never missed a minute in eleven plus years.
I'm forever grateful.
People like that, all of you out there.
We have one big exciting broadcast hour left, and it's coming right up.
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