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Dec. 22, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 22, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hi, folks.
Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year.
Great to have you with us.
Our final busy broadcast of the busy broadcast year.
Here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Email address, LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
Boy, it must be busy out there.
I mean, I ordered a bunch of stuff from FedEx.
Well, let me just give you the numbers.
It doesn't matter what it is.
I ordered 25 different things.
What is this?
Tuesday?
So there are 25 different things.
They all ended up on time.
Some of them aren't going to be here tomorrow.
My only point in telling, and maybe even then, it won't get here.
Maybe a lot of you people probably have stuff coming.
And if my experience is anything like anybody else's, they're just swamped out there.
UPS, FedEx, who knows whoever else.
So be patient.
Also, Odell Beckham Jr.
Oh, folks, this is getting, well, I was going to say juicy.
That might be an inappropriate term now, given what we've learned.
You're familiar with the Odell Beckham Jr., Josh Norman.
You know, there's a whole backstory to this that I don't think a lot of people have put together.
But let me just give you the full rundown on all of this.
And by the way, folks, this is a Christmas show.
We've got our political stuff here, and a lot of it's very meaty, and we're going to get to it.
But for you stick to the issues, crowd people, give us a couple minutes here.
You know, go have a cup of coffee or something and come back.
It'll be safe in a couple of minutes here.
Because they're going to discuss things that, well, I think everything's related to politics, by the way, as you well know.
I think a political connection to almost everything happening in our country can be made.
Oh, yeah, I can't wait to get to the schlong dincent that Trump's schlonged Hillary or says she's been schlong.
Oh, the media is outraged.
They can't believe it.
In fact, since you bring this up, you know, when Hillary lied about Trump, about ISIS making a recruitment video out of Trump's comments on the moratorium of Muslims in America, I had a thought, and I was going to mention it today, that if I know the Hillary camp, they're making that video now.
They have gotten hold of some Muslims, and they're going to make a video, and they're going to produce it as though it's legitimate.
Little did I know until I just now got the audio soundbite roster that the media advised Hillary to do just that last night on CNN.
Let me find it.
Let me find it.
It is incredible if, let's see, where is it?
Got some great soundbites from Mandy Petenkin, too, from Homeland.
I mean, you know, I wish these people would shut up about their politics.
It's going to ruin my enjoyment of that show.
For credit, just shut up.
Would you actors just shut up about it?
You start opening your mouths and you blow it.
You blow your image.
You destroy whatever credibility you might bring to the role you're playing because now we know you're nothing but a bunch of pinkos.
Damn.
I don't know if I could ever watch this show again.
I'll get to that in due course.
What's the bite?
Somebody help me out with a bite here.
Yeah, grab number nine.
This is Aaron Burnett and David Rodham Gergen last night advising ISIS to put out a video with Trump in it quick.
Aaron Burnett out front is the show speaking with David Gergen and this is their little exchange back and forth.
Bill Clinton has been used in ISIS recruiting videos and Donald Trump surely may be in the future, but at least at this point he has not.
Don't you think there's a video coming now?
Don't you think they're going to make one real quick and get it?
I mean, they absolutely could, right?
Like, what are we waiting for?
Like, let's do it.
Like, it's an automatic.
This is why I wanted to mention it at the top of the program because that video is going to be produced.
It's not going to have Hillary fingerprints on it.
Oh, and you see Chelsea's pregnant.
Right on time, Folks, there's going to be another Clinton baby right in the middle of the campaign next year.
Anyway, so there will be a video.
You watch a recruitment video of the Trump comments, and it will be claimed to be legit.
But here you have David Rodham Gergen and Aaron Burnett practically urging ISIS to do it in order to help Hillary.
And you just know that the Hillary campaign is going to do it on their own without getting any advice.
And I still fall back on this silly idea, the idea that all it takes to turn a peaceful Muslim into a raging, self-immolating, bombing jihadist is to show him or her a videotape of Donald Trump suggesting a moratorium on Muslim entry to the U.S. I mean, how peaceful can it be if that's all it takes?
And that's what Hillary is saying.
And I think that's a big point.
You know, others are glossing over that is not that big a deal.
I think it's profound.
And I'll tell you another reason why it's profound is because it totally misses the point.
Do you think that suicide bombers and jihadists and ISIS really come from external motivation like this?
Or could it be that this is how they're raised?
Could it be that this is part of the Islamic supremacist ideology, as in Sharia law?
I mean, the idea that these people were minding their own business and were walking down the bazaars waiting to trade goatheads and whatever else going on and just doing their business.
And all of a sudden, peaceful people were inspired at the drop of a hat to join the jihad.
What a crock they want us to believe here.
So, yeah, we've got that.
And Obama, well, rather, Trump and Hillary and the Schlong to come.
The media can't figure it out.
They don't know what it means.
But they're sure it's dirty.
They're sure it's a big, mean insult, and they can't believe it.
Oh, by the way, my theory on the Trump effect in polling looks like it's been confirmed now.
Looks like it's been confirmed.
That meaning that Trump's support is even bigger than what is being reported by the polls.
And the indication is that the polls taken by telephone show Trump doing much better than in-person polls.
See there's an indication there that when people think they're responding in private, they're freer, feel less encumbered, and go ahead and tell the truth.
And by the way, this is a red-letter day for me, folks, because there's all kinds of stories confirming things I have been saying for decades, months, weeks, days, particularly on the aspect of the coalition that has been created by Trump, that it is exactly what the Republican Party wants, that it's exactly what the Republican Party claims they're trying to do here.
Trump is assembling that very coalition of people.
So details on all of this coming up.
And also, I got an interesting note from a friend of mine today who's very frustrated.
She was looking for any signs of hope.
Here we are on December 22nd, Christmas Eve, two days away, Christmas Day, three days away.
She's looking for any sign of hopefulness in the news.
That there's a rosy future for the country ahead.
That things are not as bad as they seem to be.
That we're not at the end of the road.
That all is not lost.
And then she said she came to a conclusion she's looking in the wrong place.
You don't look to the news for signs of hopefulness.
You look to God.
This is Christmas.
And that's what Christmas is about.
You look to God for signs of hopefulness and joy.
So if you're looking for all that in the media, and if you're looking for all of that in the news, you're looking in the wrong place.
You're never going to find that, or well, not consistently anyway, in the news.
Okay, the Odell Beckham Jr. slash Josh Norman.
There's a backstory to this that actually starts with Rodney Harrison and the NBC Football Night in America pregame show on Sunday night.
And the basics of this are that Rodney Harrison was a safety, and he's going to be in the Hall of Fame.
Rodney Harrison was one of the greatest to ever play the game.
One of the hardest hitting, one of the most penalized.
I mean, the guy was just a beast, as they say, in inside circles.
Tough as they come.
Just that great, great player started with the San Diego Chargers and ended with the New England Patriots.
And the past two or three weeks on that Sunday night NBC pregame show, Rodney Harrison and Josh Norman, the cornerback, number 24 for the Carolina Panthers have had a little back and forth involving a wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons named Julio Jones.
And it all started with Rodney Harrison suggesting that Josh Norman, not as good as Josh Norman, thinks he is, but he's going to be if he keeps his head on the straight and narrow.
I don't want to get into too much of this, but the point is there's been a back and forth.
Rodney Harrison dealing with Josh Norman.
There's a generational difference there.
Either ages are not that great, but there's still a generational difference.
Harrison has one way of playing the game, and these young guys have another way.
Harrison has one way of respecting the game, these young guys a different way.
And Harrison has been warning Norman, hey, you know what?
You're going to be good, but you're not that good yet.
I was you, bud.
I was you.
I know.
I've been where you are.
I've made the mistakes you're making.
Don't get so cocky off the bat here.
You got a long way to go, pal.
And Norman's been saying, who are you?
You're lousy at your job.
I couldn't care less what you say about me, Harrison.
Screw you, essentially.
Those are paraphrased.
So that's a backstory that just involves Norman.
So Norman's had his talent questioned.
He's been talked down to by a vet and a retired player who is reputed to be among the best.
Then you bring in this Odell Beckham situation on top of that.
The only reason this backstory with NBC and Rodney Harrison is relevant is that it's already amped Norman up.
And Norman already thinks that all eyes are on him because of the back and forth he's had with Rodney Harrison on this Sunday night NBC show.
Now we get to this game that happened on Sunday, and we're learning all kinds of things.
If you don't know, basically, Beckham lost his cool the whole game and engaged in behavior that many say he should have been thrown out of the game after the second incident.
There should have been penalties.
He should have been thrown out, should have been expelled, suspended for one or two games, but nothing happened during the game.
There were no, well, there were penalty flags thrown, but the coach Coughlin didn't sit him down and bench him, and the referees didn't throw him out of the game.
Norman, Josh Norman, number 24 for the Panthers, was judged to be a guilty party to, but nowhere near as out of bounds and over the top as Beckham was.
And the real coup de grace for Beckham was in the third, maybe the fourth quarter, Beckham is a decoy wide receiver on a running play to the running back Shane Vereen.
And after the play is over, Beckham doubles back and launches himself helmet to helmet into the head of Josh Norman right there in the earhole.
No penalty was called.
It was head hunting.
I mean, it was blatant what it was.
Should have been thrown out of the game at that point.
15-yard penalty, you name it.
Nothing happened.
Okay, so Beckham gets suspended.
They announced the suspension yesterday.
One game.
He can appeal.
The appeal is going to be tomorrow.
The Beckham New York Giants PR machine has gotten into gear since the suspension was announced.
And the first thing that came out was, well, hey, you know what?
The Panthers are not innocent players here.
You know what the Panthers did?
They brought a baseball bat or two out to the pregame.
And they were saying the baseball bats, part of the way they fire themselves up, saying, bring the wood.
Well, you don't take a baseball bat out and you don't start taunting the other team with a baseball bat.
And they were swinging the bat around.
They didn't threaten anybody with it, but just the very fact that they're out there swinging a baseball bat, black bat.
Relevant, too.
You can't say the color of the bat matters, folks.
It does.
In their culture today, it's a black bat.
It matters.
And then the media, the sports writers also, well, wait a minute now.
That still doesn't excuse what Beckham did.
So then the Giants and Beckham PR machine got into further gear.
Snerdley, have you heard the latest?
Apparently, in pregame warm-ups, the Panthers were making fun of Odell Beckham Jr.'s sexuality.
Yes, indeed.
They were intimating that he's gay.
They were calling him a ballerina.
They were saying he's got a cute bunch of dance moves.
And this was preceded by post-game comments from Josh Norman, who said, yeah, he's a little feminine out there.
The kid's a little bit over the top, acting a little feminine.
This Michael Jackson routine he's got going.
That's not football.
That's not how you play the game.
So now the Panthers suppose according to the Giants PR, well, I don't know who's putting it out there, but obviously somebody trying to level the scales.
And this is thrown the media for a loss now because if indeed, if indeed Odell Beckham Jr. was a victim of homophobia and blatant homophobic comments, the media is caught, oh no, does that change everything?
Does that explain why Beckham lost it all afternoon?
Does that explain why Beckham was doing what he was doing?
Does it excuse what Beckham was doing?
Now, some sports drive-bys who are as liberal as their news buddies.
Sports drive-bys, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't excuse what he did, but it changes the thing greatly.
It explains a little bit more why Beckham was doing what he was doing before anybody knew that there were taunts, gay, homosexual, sexuality-orientation taunts at Beckham from many on the Panthers team during pregame warm-ups.
Well, no penalty thrown on any of that.
That was pregame.
But it would, if they did throw a flag on pregame stuff, which they have done.
I mean, people have been kicked out of the game during pregame warm-ups.
Joey Porter for the Steelers thrown out once in Cleveland for it.
And he's not the only one.
But yeah, I guess you call it a hate penalty.
So anyway, Beckham's appeal will be heard tomorrow.
A lot of people thought it would be today because Wednesday is the first practice day of the week in the NFL.
Tuesday is Players' Day off if the game is on Sunday.
So it remains to be seen now with all the baseball bet, the taunting, the gay taunts, the homophobia taunts, all these other things.
Plus, now the specter is, well, wait a minute.
Now people are asking the question about Beckham.
See, I mean, this opens a whole new window, a whole new can of words.
Why were they saying those things about Beckham?
Was Beckham...
Oh, gee.
Oh.
So people are now in the drive-bys really conflicted.
And I love it when drive-bys get conflicted, folks.
I'm sorry.
I just, I love it when I get.
No, no, I'm not kidding you.
And you ought to read the drive-bys.
They're reading how horrible it was that they called young Beckham names.
And the league needs to look into this.
You should see the sports drive-bys on this.
Okay.
Folks, for those of you that have never played football or have never been in a baseball locker room at the major leagues in the NFL, it's brutal in there.
There's all kinds of teasing.
There's hazing.
There's even on the closest teams, and particularly with rookies and young people and so forth, opposing teams to boot.
These are men.
And these are testosterone-laden young men.
And I guarantee you, there isn't any political correctness running around these lockers, but the sports drive-bys who are imbued with left-wing Democrat Party political correctness, they're outraged that players in the Panthers would call Beckham names.
That's just mean.
And you know, and many of the drive-bys are calling for an investigation into the new under the Carolina Panthers to find out if indeed there were slurs being stated about Beckham.
There are slurs, there are insults about half the time on the field during an average NFL game.
These are men.
You know, it's one of the last refuges of manliness out there.
It's one of the reasons the game's so damn popular.
There's nothing metrosexual about it.
There's nothing politically correct about it, although there's pressure being brought to make the game PC.
But yeah, they're all, oh, he's calling names.
The league really better look into that.
That's something we can't tolerate.
There needs to be an investigation.
I'll tell you, these people are going to be the death of backbone.
They're going to be the death of strength.
They're going to be the death of toughness.
No, these metrosexual left-wing guys.
Oh, yeah.
The sports drive-bys, some of them are now pushing for Odell Beckham's suspension to be lifted and replaced just as fine.
Since it might be that he was a victim of gay bashing, he might have been the recipient of gay insulting comments.
They call him names and so forth.
Well, that could explain, doesn't justify it, you understand, but it can explain Beckham losing his cool and going nuts out there and therefore lift the suspension and just find it.
There's a movement on for that.
Now, I have to tell you something here, folks.
I don't know where this comes from.
I mean, everybody's assuming that it's Beckham's people, the Giants people, putting out the news that the Panthers are calling their player names.
Stop and think of that.
You NFL fans, can you imagine this happening back in the era of Stabler and Dave Casper and Al Davis?
You imagine the news of the week about the NFL, a player being called names by the opposing team.
I mean, it's just, but anyway, here's the deal.
Here's the thing.
Whoever put this out, whoever is launching this story that they were harassing Beckham with insults of his sexuality and calling him a ballerina, making fun of his hairdo and his hair color, calling him Michael Jackson and flitting around out there.
And that's not football.
I mean, they have just sent an engraved invitation to every opponent from now on out that that's how you rattle Odell Beckham Jr.
The Giants have slim playoff hopes remaining.
They've got to win out.
And they want Beckham.
They feel they don't have a prayer with Beckham.
So I guess they're willing to run the risk turning Beckham into an every week target in exchange for having him this coming.
They play the Vikings.
Oh, yeah, Sunday night game, Minneapolis, late December.
Right.
So that's the next one on the Giants schedule.
So there's a lot of things here that just, and I don't know how many of you people read the sports drive-bys out there, but it's a sight to behold.
I mean, you would think that the Carolina Panthers are coming, they're all Donald Trump's, and they're all out insulting everybody.
And it's just unacceptable.
And the league needs to investigate.
Now, I want to get to these soundbites of Mandy Potinkin.
That's how you pronounce his name.
It's not Potinkin.
It's spelled Patinkin, but it's pronounced Potinkin.
And he's a good performer.
He's been an actor in a number of things.
I first became aware of him at some point in the 90s.
I didn't know he was an actor, though.
He was a singer or something.
Clothes designer.
Maybe I'm confusing him with somebody.
Might be confusing him with.
I haven't the slightest idea.
Anyway, he plays Saul Berenson on Homeland.
You watch Homeland Dawn?
You like Saul Berenson?
I can't watch this show anymore now after these.
These guys open their mouths and they just blow everything they're trying to do in their jobs.
Just listen to this.
He's on Charlie Rose last night, interviewing Mandy Potinkin about American foreign policy.
The guy is an actor.
He pretends to be a CIA agent.
Pretends to be.
It's in a show that is written by a couple of writers and producers.
One of them is Howard Gordon from the old 24 days and his partner, Alex Ganza.
So Charlie Rose, wanting to get to the bottom, you understand here of American foreign policy, let's go talk to an actor who plays a CIA agent on TV.
Charlie Rose says, What has Saul Berenson, your character on Homeland, taught you?
All right, folks, buckle up because here we go.
He has taught me to be more hopeful and more optimistic.
He has taught me to go to Greece and hold these families in my arms.
Saul Berenson taught you.
Saul Berenson taught me.
Saul Berenson believes that this kind of inhumanity toward man will one day stop.
And you can say to me, well, Mandy, that's naive.
It's never stopped since the beginning of time.
So I'm supposed to stop hoping for it.
Saul Berenson doesn't exist.
Saul Berenson is make-believe.
Saul Berenson is a character created out of somebody's imagination.
And here is a Hollywood actor admitting that a figment of someone's imagination is teaching him things about going to Greece.
And I guess he's talking about the refugees here.
Because, see, this is what you do if you're in a drive-by media.
Go find an actor who plays a CIA agent on a television show, and you ask them about American foreign policy when it comes to refugees and immigration.
Because the guy knows it.
He's a CIA agent.
Well, he's an actor who plays a CIA agent.
I know this is not a new phenomenon.
Jessica Lang and Jane Fonda once get called before a Senate committee on agricultural problems because they played farm wives in a movie about the Dust Bowl.
And that DiCamprio, this guy's testifying before Congress on global warming because he's invented a couple of movies, Titanic, and he sort of slavishly idolizes Elgore.
Something weird going on there, too, but I don't want to go any farther than that.
Oh, wait.
No, no, there's two more here.
So Charlie Rose says, What has Saul Berenson taught you on Homeland?
And Berenson actually continues with the lesson.
Saul Berenson was captured by a terrorist.
Saul Berenson was going to be traded for four or five known terrorists.
Saul Berenson rather wanted to take his own life.
Kill me before you let someone else go out there and hurt someone.
I woke up just as we finished shooting and I wrote this like one and a half page feeling that Saul had.
It was very dark, very angry, very revengeful.
The polar opposite of what I've been saying.
Wanted to just annihilate all these people that are doing harm, but also including, you know, a number of other people like the Dick Cheneys and the Donald Rumsfelds and, you know, a number of other people too, not just known terrorists, but people who don't do good.
So he learned from portraying Saul Berenson on Homeland that Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld are just like the terrorists.
He learned this playing a character entirely made up out of somebody's figment of the imagination.
Words entirely manufactured.
There is no basis in reality.
Saul Berenson does not have a social security number.
Saul Berenson does not exist.
But in Mandy Potinkin's head, he does.
And in Mandy Potinkin's head, there are all kinds of life lessons he's learning pretending to be this guy.
This is why people think actors, you know, sometimes not all there.
And there's an expert.
He's an expert on terrorism.
Yeah, yeah, he was like, he, a character, I wanted to kill myself on the character.
I wanted to kill myself because it prevented other people from dying.
And that taught me what a bunch of mean guys Cheney and Rumsfeld were.
Here's the next one about Ted Cruz.
This is Saul Berenson/slash Mandy Potinkin from Homeland analyzing Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz running for president.
He loves a movie that I was privileged to be a part of called The Princess Bride.
He quotes lines from this wonderful movie.
Ted Cruz says, we need to go on a war footing.
We need a war president in this country.
I couldn't disagree more.
I want to protect everyone in the world, and I believe the way to protect them is to stop the killing universally, create opportunity and better systems of living and existing quality of life to humanity all over the world.
I say to Ted Cruz, if you quote all these lines from The Prince's Bride, why do you leave one line out?
Ask Senator Cruz to look at that line and deeply consider it and learn it and quote it.
And the line that Denigo says is, I have been in the revenge business so long.
Now that it's over, I do not know what to do with the rest of my life.
You see why we're so screwed up?
I mean, movies and characters in movies have become life lessons for people, including the actors portraying them.
So Cruz is not allowed to take whatever he takes from the Prince's bride.
But Mandy Potinkin is allowed to tell Ted Cruz he doesn't know what he's talking about when he takes something out of the prince's bride.
Right after Mandy Potinkin tells us what all he learned from the character he played on Homeland.
And how about this?
I want to protect everyone in the world.
And I believe the way to protect them is to stop killing universally, create opportunity.
This guy obviously thinks the United States is the problem in the world.
And this is, and so does Obama.
And this is the problem.
These people think we are causing all this killing because of the reckless nature of our policies.
How else do you end up blaming Cheney and Rumsfeld?
So it's not that the tyrants and dictators and mass murderers out there are responsible for what they're doing.
It's our fault.
Furthermore, it's our responsibility to make them stop.
And it's our responsibility to bring universal love.
And then when we go out and try to make them stop, these very same people tell us we're not the world's policemen and to get the hell out of there.
I tell you, they are psychosomatic, pathological, whatever it is.
And, of course, the low-information crowd lives and dies on every word they say.
On a cutting edge of societal evolution.
Rush Limbaugh, great to have you with us.
You're on the last live program, hosted by me anyway, of the year, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Look at this headline from the New York Post.
Colombians fear mental breakdown from Miss Universe Runner Up.
Colombians fear their beloved beauty pageant queen, Ariadne Gutierrez, will be left an emotional wreck after cruelly having the glory of winning Miss Universe ripped away because host Steve Harvey mistakenly read her name as the champion.
He forgot to read the first runner-up.
Maybe gave her the crown and they had a strip her of the crown.
That's just not cool.
Maria Isabel Nieto, Colombia's Consul General to New York, told the New York Post, I do think she's very affected by all this.
I just think that when I was in my 20s and was in her situation, I would take a little while to recover.
The bungled announcement also caused a national trauma for the people of Colombia.
Okay.
Is this true or is this just the way the media is?
Is this woman literally close to a mental breakup because of this?
And are we to believe that the bungled announcement has caused a national trauma for the people of Colombia?
I wonder if who was the big Pedro, who was the big drug king down there to cocaine, Pablo Escobar.
I wonder if the people of Colombia experience a national trauma because of Pablo Escobar.
Well, I guess if they knock off Steve Harvey, we'll know.
But I mean, Pablo Escobar actually was kind of a folk hero popular.
I know that because I watch Narcos on Netflix.
That means I'm an expert now.
Oh, yeah.
And speaking of Mandy Potenkin, this is really cool, folks.
Mandy Potenkin, we just heard him go on and how he hates the killing and what Saul Berenson has taught him about love and acceptance and tolerance.
Well, Saul Berenson mass murdered a fellow CIA agent who was a traitorous Russian agent.
Well, it was his girlfriend, right?
But they never really girlfriend.
She was just, she was just faking it in order to get close.
She never really loved him.
She just was pretending to it.
He fell for it.
So he arranged for her to be put in the trunk of a car and the scene right out of Goodfellas.
They just shot the car up and she's dead.
Saul Berenson, did that?
You know Saul Berenson, a man of love and tolerance and who wants to go to Greece and hug everybody?
Literally participated in the murder of his ex-girlfriend, a CIA agent working with the Russians.
No wonder the guy is conflicted.
So what can we do to help Miss Colombia here, Arianne the Gutierrez?
It's an emotional wreck.
They fear a mental breakdown.
The entire nation of Colombia is experiencing a trauma.
The president, Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian president, said, to me, as a Colombian, she is still Miss Universe.
They put the crown on her head.
The photos are there to prove it.
Gutierrez's short reign as Miss Universe, pretty short, what was it, two minutes?
Gutierrez's short reign as Miss Universe began at the climax of the pageant held at the Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas.
Oh, man.
So now they really, she thinks that she was Miss Universe for a couple of minutes.
See, this is, you think there's not a political link to this?
You think this does not have political lessons?
I mean, this is right out of American culture now.
Can you imagine what would have happened if somebody had given Odell Beckham Jr. an award and taken it away in two minutes on Sunday afternoon?
I shudder to think.
Okay, Alex Douglas, Georgia, starting on the phones.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Russ.
Great to be here.
My dad is actually a 25-year listener to your program.
Cool.
And he's just recently, you know, we worked together, and he's just recently started listening to it with me in the car.
So I'm only about a one-year listener out of right now.
I just had a question for you.
I am a very avid fan of the show Family Guy.
And I know that they tend to be sort of, you know, more to the left as far as their political views go.
Sort of.
And I know that you've been there, been on the show a couple of times.
And I was just curious what drove you to kind of be on the show.
Well, it was an opportunity.
I've actually been on the show three times, twice with voiceovers as myself, but I recorded right here in the studio and just sent them.
And the third time, the episode was about me.
I was an actual star animated.
You know, those episodes take a year to do.
Did you know that?
I did not know that.
It takes one year to animate every episode.
That's how much in advance they work and how good they have to be when they get into the world of politics predicting things so that the stuff they do is timely.
I got to know Seth McFarlane in those two previous participations that I did, and it was his idea to build a show around me.
And I jumped at the chance because it was an opportunity to reach out beyond this audience and the so-called conservative audience in a very popular comedy show.
It's a little bit out on the edge.
But I had some assurances that I would be portrayed in a certain way, and they were honest, and they came through and all that.
So it was a really fun experience to do.
But I mean, it was a, A, I did it because it would be fun, but B, because I thought business-wise, it'd be a nice change and a way.
I mean, that was a pop culture big-time hit, and it was a way to expose this program to people that might have a false impression of it or not even listen to it at all.
Hang on here just a second.
I got to run.
I'm really up to it on time here.
Something happened in the Weekly Standard last night involving me that I can't recall ever happening before.
I have been properly credited with the invention of and the creation of a term that's now being used in the political campaign.
I am never credited that way.
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