Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And once again, ladies and gentlemen, your beloved host taken to task on three separate in three separate pieces today.
I was going to say three separate occasions.
Your beloved host being blamed for what's happening in the Republican primary.
Three different places.
All from the establishment related media.
Well, at least some of it is.
And I'll have details for you coming up momentarily.
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We're going to get to Republican side here in just a minute.
But you may not know what happened on the Democrat side because Donald Trump totally owned all media last night.
He went up to Trump, whatever it is golf course in Jupiter.
The Jack Nicholas designed and Paul O'Neill endorsed, and Trump stakes and Trump water and Trump vodka and Trump wine were being given away to a readily acceptable media.
They couldn't wait to get their hands on the stuff.
And nobody knows what went on on Democrat side, and it's actually kind of funny.
Bernie Sanders, who, by the way, look at this Wall Street Journal.
Wall Street Journal.
They took out after me last week.
No.
Who was it?
Well, I don't know.
When I miss a day, I lose track of what day things happened.
I wasn't here Monday.
So it was it was when Brett Stevens went on with somebody and blame me for the fact that Trump is running away with things that haven't come out against Trump.
Yet they have, and National Review has, and they're unable to stop him, so I guess it falls to me, while they admit they can't.
Anyway, Wall Street Journal Gerald Sib.
Look at you want to know why the establishment's got the problems it's got.
Here's the headline of the story.
Angry white males propel Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
Angry white males.
How old is that?
That goes back to at least 1988 when this program began.
That's how stale.
That's how old the degree of criticism is.
But Angry White Males was never used before by the Wall Street Journal.
It was only used by leftists, Democrats, the drive-by media to characterize you in this audience and others in the Republican slash conservative side of things, but now here's the Wall Street Journal joining the chorus.
That it's angry white males.
I guess the establishment has no choice but then to unify here and to pool resources and come up with what they guess is their best ammo.
And once again, what do they do?
Go after voters, go after hosts, go after people other than themselves.
The blame has to has to lay somewhere other than in their own backyards.
You want to know why Trump's doing well?
I mean, I've spent how many hours in this program explaining it, analyzing it.
Seems like the news every day, somebody new and combined with all those who've spoken previously, come out, don't vote Trump, don't vote Trump, don't vote Trump.
Trump sucks, Trump this.
You know where Mitt Romney was last night?
The presidential.
The revered, the respected, the severe conservative, Mitt Romney, you know where he was, he was on Jimmy Kimmel Live reading mean tweets that he's gotten since coming out against Trump.
That's really presidential.
I mean, that's that's that's really a cut above.
So it's full-fledged panic time now in the in the drive-by media.
There's a politico story.
GOP establishment creeps toward crews.
Ted the only possibility to stop Trump says a Bush loyalist, and they hate that.
They hate having to coalesce behind crews.
Carly Fiorina did today in a surprise.
She not only endorsed Cruis, she introduced him in a stem winder.
It was a great speech, maybe better than any speech she ever gave on her own behalf, down in Miami just an hour or so ago.
So there's lots of moves.
Marco Rubio had another horrible night last night, and the pressure's on him to get out.
Now more on that in just a moment.
We'll put all this together in a moment.
But first, on the Democrat side.
The drive-by media and their polling units told everybody that Hillary Clinton was going to beat Crazy Bernie in Michigan by anywhere from 27 to 30 points.
And Crazy Bernie won.
Nobody really knew because everybody was watching Trump.
But Crazy Bernie beat Hillary last night anywhere from one and a half to two points.
The polls, as I say, had Hillary up anywhere from 27 to 37 points.
It was an incredible, this is one of the biggest polling misses.
In a long time, the previous record, I looked it up today.
Previous record for polling inaccuracy had been from 1984 when Walter F. Mondo was supposed to beat Gary Hartpence in New Hampshire by 17 points.
And of course, Hartpence ended up beating Mondo.
That was just in New Hampshire.
But this Michigan polling fiasco doubled that error.
But here's the thing.
Bernie Sanders just cleaned up.
You know what the real question about this is?
Did Bernie just indicate that Donald Trump could beat Hillary in Michigan?
Did Bernie beating Hill?
That's the way you have to look at this nerdly.
You have to look at this outside the boundaries they've set up for us.
So Hillary gets creamed in a Democrat primary by Crazy Bernie.
And here's Gerald Sib in the Wall Street Journal with a story talking about all the similarities there are between Crazy Bernie and the Trumpster.
And the commonality is angry white males.
What that means is legitimately ticked off members of the white middle class who have depended on everybody in the establishment in both parties they voted for to make their lives better.
And as we've been chronicling for the past number of well, days here, but well, weeks.
They've blown everything.
They have screwed everything.
They've ruined what a college education was designed to do.
They've screwed up the American health care system.
They have screwed up the budget.
We're $19 trillion in debt.
The education system itself is an abject mess.
Before you even get to college, you don't learn anything when you graduate.
Nothing worthwhile.
And they're fed up.
And because they're fed up, they are characterized, impugned as angry white men, angry white, but what they are is the white working class.
Thomas B. Edsall of the New York Times formerly written a piece in November of 2012, actually 2011, telling everybody working for the Obama campaign they were going to write off the white working class and focus on demographic minorities, which they did.
And the Republican establishment's done pretty much the same as they as they track the same direction the Democrats go, thinking they can't win unless they shift their demographic appeal and attract more minorities.
So who's been forgotten?
White working class.
Call them Reagan Democrats, call them angry white males as the Wall Street Journal is now doing.
But the point is they were the margin of victory for Crazy Bernie in Michigan, and Crazy Bernie beating Hillary means that Trump could as well.
That's the way you have to look at this.
And Trump putting Michigan in play.
Why is that relevant?
Trump maybe he's bragging about upstate New York and his popularity there, putting that in play.
And it's important because there's some pressure, it's subtle right now, but there's pressure on Trump to choose Kasich as his vice president.
The only reason to do that would be if you think you need Ohio, and then if you think Kasich on your team can get you Ohio.
I think Kasich, if he's gonna have a job in any administration, needs to be Postmaster General.
But if somebody's thinking of putting him on the ticket as VP, it'd be because you need Ohio.
But if Trump thinks he doesn't need Ohio, then there'd be no reason for that.
By the way, speaking of VP, Trump said to Marco Rubio, I'm not gonna even think of you.
I'm not even gonna consider you for VP until you get out of the race.
But wait.
I thought the conventional wisdom was that Trump wants as many people to stay in the race so that there is not this coalition coming together of anti-Trump votes against him.
Then the other side of that is, well, if that continues to happen, that means Trump might not get to 1,237.
Although I think last night indicates that's, you know, that's a long shot, too.
That's a lingering hope.
Uh With Marcos unfortunate showing yesterday, how do you go from that to winning Florida?
I just I don't see it.
There's nothing that would create momentum or suggest to voters that there's something there.
It'd be just the exact opposite.
Plus, you have Ted Cruz setting up ten campaign offices in Florida.
Not to win it, but to deny it to Rubio, payback for Rubio doing the same thing in Texas to Cruz.
And the latest polling data has Trump over Kasich in Ohio by eight points or so.
So really a week from yesterday will tell the tale.
But it does begin to look like the establishment has no choice that if they do want to deny Trump, they're going to have to coalesce behind Cruz.
And I cannot tell you how much they hate having to do that.
I cannot tell you that in the bowels of the establishment citadels, wherever it is they hang out and have their club dinners and so forth.
They hate Cruz more than they do Trump.
Hate's too strong a word.
They don't like Cruz more than they don't like Trump.
They know that Cruz means it.
They know Cruz is serious.
And when he talks about constitutional conservatism, and with Trump, they're not sure what he believes from day to day, and that makes them think that they'll be able to work with him, do deals and this kind of thing.
Trump, for his part, is urging everybody to unify behind him, and let's get going and beat Hillary.
But the establishment, with the markers they've set down up to now, that's going to be very, very hard for them to do.
But I tell you, don't pay any attention to his conventional wisdom, because everything you thought was going to happen in this campaign hasn't, everything you thought was going to happen hasn't, and things that you never believed would happen have happened.
And we're not through with that cycle.
So there's still plenty of time for things that you don't think in any way, shape, manner, or form could happen to happen.
Well, I was going to get to that later.
See, Snerdly, how are you to blame for all this?
You know, I don't like to make this program about me.
I've gotten in the habit of saving all this stuff about me until the final hour, so that people don't think that I just do this about me.
But there's three stories today.
Did I even put them at the Yes.
Here's one from the Hill.com.
Why would conservative media defend Trump?
And it mentions me and Fox News Sunday said Rush Limbaugh said on Fox News Sunday, I think the case of Trump, there's a much bigger upside and downside.
But anyone paying attention to be hard-pressed to agree.
Limbaugh, who often touts his own speech at CPAC in 2009 as a triumph for the cause, ignores Trump turning his back on the event and thereby and then go on to rip me and some other people in there.
Here's a piece by Michael Brendan Doherty at the week, why talk radio coronated Donald Trump.
And maybe I'll get into details of what these people say as we go down the road in the program here, but but it's it's basically an attempt to say that, well, you know, Limbaugh sees himself in Trump.
Trump is talk radio, and these guys love seeing the way they do things, win politically in Trump, or it's about money, or it's about ratings, or I've been doing this 28 years, and even though I have gone into great detail about my passions and my interests, why I do this and how it is amazing after 28 years that so many people who profess to study this still don't get what I do and how I do it.
But beyond that, there's a uh Jonah Goldberg has a piece, there's three of them.
Jonah Goldberg has a piece in National Review Today, not mentioning me, but other conservative elites who have abandoned the cause for Trump.
And he cites Stephen Moore, used to be with the Club for Growth, and Larry Cudlow, who Trump cites all the time as having praised Trump's tax plan.
And Jonah's all worried and curious why this is happening and tries to explain it.
But three pieces on the same day.
And here's here's my point about it.
All these people, let's add the Wall Street Journal, whatever it was, earlier this week or late last Four pieces here in less than a week that essentially blame me and others for the fact that Trump has not been taken out, blaming me for the fact that Trump is still winning, blaming me and using whatever analogy they can, sell out pursuer of ratings and dollars, whatever.
The thing is, I don't see any of them endorsing Ted Cruz.
I don't see any of them.
They're out there ripping Ted Cruz as often as they're ripping me and Trump.
I don't see them endorsing anybody.
Now, in the case of the Wall Street Journals, I mentioned yesterday, they and a national review, a whole issue devoted to why nobody should vote for Trump.
What do people think is going to happen psychologically?
Particularly at this moment in time in our country, the way where you have the average American people I define as the people who make this country work, and here come the supposed betters, the elites, telling everybody what they shouldn't do, don't do this, don't do that, continue to trust us.
There isn't any trust left anymore, and that group of elites continues to say, don't vote Trump, all they're doing is sending people to Trump.
Romney, it has been documented.
Somebody actually ran some statistical data and found out that Romney's speech among the people that heard it converted 11% to Trump.
Because people have grown weary of being told they're stupid and don't know how to vote or who to vote for until the establishment of people in that group tell them how to vote.
And they're reacting, oh yeah, yeah, you don't think we know what we're doing?
Well, how?
How do you feel about this?
And they go out and publicly announce their support for Trump.
It seems to happen with Romney, it's happening with all these people.
While they sit here and criticize me for not taking Trump out, they admit they haven't been able to do so either.
The difference is they've tried.
They have tried to take Trump out, and they haven't succeeded.
And so now they scapegoat me.
But I don't see any of them endorsing Cruz.
I don't see any of them extolling the virtues of the conservative movement over all these years.
I see many of not all of them, some exceptions here.
Uh the guy at The Week, uh Michael Doherty, I think I've quoted him in the past and excerted some of his pieces that I have admired, Michael Brendan Doherty.
So I don't I don't know where he comes down on the ideological ledger, but the journal and National Review, I mean, these people, uh, even there, there has been a, and you talk to anybody in the base about it.
The problem with the conservative media is there hasn't been much conservatism to find.
There's been an association with the party.
There has been an agreement with the concept of open borders and amnesty.
This is not a mystery why people are reacting the way they are.
And so now, when all of the best and brilliant thinking the world has not created a majority support for an establishment candidate was supposed to be Jeb.
And here's Trump, and Trump continues to dazzle and bedazzle and confuse and puzzle and tick them off.
They turn to me as a source of blame for the fact that Trump hasn't been taken out, despite the fact that they've tried.
But I don't see where they've endorsed other people.
I don't see where they have actually engaged in the behavior they demand that I engage in.
Back after this.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
The um dotting the eye crossing the T out of uh out of Michigan and the Democrat side, there's Crazy Bernie erases a 37-point polling deficit.
Anyway, from 27 to 37% of the polls had him losing to Hillary Beecher by a point and a half to two points.
And yet she walks away with a majority of the delegates because of the super delegate arrangement they have and some of the other rigged aspects of the Democrat primary.
All of the wise men, what I call the analysts and strategists that cable news networks trot out.
The wise men, the analysts and so forth, they're all saying, nah, this is just a blip.
This doesn't mean anything.
The Democrat strategists even.
Bernie winning Michigan?
Nah.
Nothing to see here.
It really doesn't mean anything.
Take a look at the delegate count.
Yeah, we are looking at a delegate.
How does a guy who wins the vote lose the delegates?
Why are you guys even having a primary on the Democrat side?
Of course, we can answer the question.
It's pro forma.
It is to create the illusion that Mrs. Clinton can overcome opposition, win in a knockdown drag out fight, and that it isn't a coronation that Mrs. Clinton's had a fight for it, and that after she wins, she has earned it by virtue of fighting for it.
And of course, the whole thing's rigged.
And at some point, Crazy Bernie and his supporters are going to have to get some satisfactory answers to how in the world they can make their guy win in the important state of Michigan, and Hillary still wins a majority to delegates.
Just how does that work?
Stand by for fireworks on that.
Okay, a matter of uh some serious interest that I want to get to here, folks.
But before, I swerve into it, there's an audio sound, but I want you to hear.
Now, last night Trump had his his victories in uh in a big one in Michigan, and he was scheduled to do another victory press conference, not a victory speech, but a victory press conference, with many of the audience consisting of members of the golf club in Jupiter where the event was held.
And as the media noted, long before it began, the podium was flanked by samples of Trump products.
There was Trump water.
There was Trump stakes.
There was Trump wine.
There was uh there were other Trump things there.
And it was all there.
They were there as as obviously uh placeholders, but it was either going to be used to refute Mitt Romney's claims that all of those Trump businesses have gone belly up or kaput.
And Trump, as he says, you hit me, I'm gonna hit you back.
And so it was time to hit back on these allegations that his businesses are either underwater, bankrupt, broke, what have you.
And it was a one-hour plus press conference, stream of consciousness appearance, tour de force, whatever you want to call it.
I had I had a lot of emails from people thinking, you know, I uh this is this is the most hilarious, this is the best, this is the whatever.
I've never seen anything like this kind of press conference.
I actually thought Trump has been better than he was last night.
I there was something about last night that was a little off to me.
Not that it wasn't good and not that it wasn't funny, but uh I I don't know.
I can't explain it, uh, other than to say I was just a m a bit mildly surprised at the rave reviews people sent me when it was over.
And again, it's a it's a it's a minor point, and it's really not the point at all.
But I want to share with you a soundbite.
Dr. Knuthama on the Fox News channel, when the thing was all over.
Brett Baer brings Dr. Knouthammer on to analyze what we've just seen.
I don't think I've ever heard such a stream of disconnected ideas since I quit psychiatry 30 years ago.
That was quite a performance, and it was very weird.
That was a performance.
That was live television, that was reality television, and that nobody can do.
And that has its appeal.
I think that's going to be really dangerous.
Because he often can go off the reservation, comparing himself to what was it, Abe Lincoln is number two in how presidential he is?
That's a little bit weird.
But he's been able to carry it off.
I think people have a sense of humor about him, which is good because otherwise they'd be terrified.
And that's what has been carrying them through.
In the end, though, it'll be a one-on-one, and it'll get a little more serious.
So, look, that's a that's a that's a funny line.
I haven't heard such a stream of disconnected ideas since I quit psychiatry 30 years ago.
I mean, that that may be one of the lines of the campaign.
But these guys are clearly flummoxed in in trying to understand this.
I mean, you've got you've got people saying this is a sacred process.
The presidential race, the election for president is a sacred trust, and this guy is just soiling it.
He's just making a mockery of it.
I don't know what.
And then here's Mitt Romney over there on Jimmy Kimmel Live reading mean tweets, and everybody trying to figure out why it is that the American public is not repulsed by this, why they're not worried.
This is a presidential campaign, and it is a personal reality show.
And everybody's trying to figure out why the American people are not bothered by it.
And I can explain it to you as a member of the media and as a student of the media.
I can explain it to you if you want, but I'm not going to take a whole lot of time to do that now, because it really doesn't matter.
The bottom line is people are not bothered by it, but a number of people aren't.
Some people are, is the is the point.
But can you think back, who was the last president?
Seriously now, who was the last president you can think of who treated the office and everything about it with utmost reverence and respect.
Who was the last president you can recall that did not mock the process, the job, the position, the behavioral manner, the level of decorum, everything about it.
Who was the last president you can think of who treasured, loved, and adored the office of the presidency, and would not do anything he thought would bring dishonor to it.
That president is George W. Bush.
And maybe if you want to go back his dad, George H.W. Bush.
And then you go back to Ronaldus Magnus.
I wouldn't put Obama in that discussion.
I wouldn't put Bill Clinton in that discussion.
I wouldn't put any single Democrat in that discussion.
Now, my point is this.
The only one of those presidents, when you answer that question, it's relevant right now is George W. Bush, demographically generationally.
What did it get him?
What did, and I remember now, I'm asking the question in the context of everybody wringing their hands over what Trump is doing to damage the sacred trust.
Trump is making a mockery of it.
You know, Trump is lowering it.
And it now is no different and no better than a reality show on TV, and this is not what presidential campaigns are supposed to be.
It's in that context that I asked the question.
George W. Bush treated the office of the presidency with reverence.
George W. Bush told me over and over again, whenever I had a chance to be with him, I would constantly ask him, why aren't you pushing back on all this stuff they're saying about you and your administration and people in your administration?
They're destroying your judicial nominees.
They're out there destroying you.
They're claiming you lied, people died, they're claiming that you knew there weren't any weapons of mass destruction.
And when he would talk to people privately, he would hit back at them, and you would think, my God, the guy gets it, and you wish this guy would show up on TV.
How many times have I told you this?
But yet, when it came time to go public, none of that.
And what George W. Bush told me was that he refused to take the office of the presidency down to the political gutter by reacting to obvious political chatter and cheap criticism.
He told me he had too much respect for the office to take it there, and he couldn't avoid taking the presidency there because he was president.
Okay, fine and dandy.
Whatever you think of that.
The bottom line is what did it get him?
Eve treated the office with great reverence and great respect and refused to do anything to sully it, didn't help him a bit.
The American people did not have any pride.
The American people didn't, the media Democrat Party was able To convince a majority of Americans that Bush was rotten, that Bush was a liar, that Bush was incompetent, that Bush was stupid, and all of the reverence they showed for the office didn't matter.
Now, my point is when you're trying to understand why aren't people disgusted over what Trump is doing to the office in the campaign and the reverence.
We've seen now in recent years that we live in a different generational era, particularly in our pop culture.
And there are people and probably an increasing number of people who don't find anything wrong.
In fact, not only do they not find anything wrong about it, they think it's refreshing.
They think it's refreshing that a real guy who talks like real people, i.e., like they do, is not acting all heady and lofty and uppity over them and is just behaving like anybody else would like they would if they were in the same shoes.
I just I find it's a fascinating, not maybe not a dichotomy, but it's a it's a it's clearly a dilemma.
It's like so many conventional wisdom rules that have always worked in the past or out the window and not working now.
And I go back to this Wall Street Journal headline today.
Angry white males propel Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
This to me, I I I could be wrong about this because there's been so much media over the course of the years of this program, but best of my recollection is angry white males has always been an epithet used by Democrats to describe Republican voters who don't buy into the Democrat Party.
Well, now all of a sudden, we have a supposedly Republican-oriented publication, a Wall Street Journal now calling Republicans, angry white males, and now there are allegations that angry white males are now voting in the Democrat side, too.
And I think this is just the establishment trying to comfort itself to explain what's happening to itself because they can't figure any of this out.
It violates so much of what they thought they had put in place and had total control of.
And that's really the nub of this, the panic they feel at having lost control.
Now, here's the item that I referenced a moment ago as being important and serious.
It is obvious, it is more than obvious that Marco Rubio and John Kasich do not have a chance at being the Republican nominee, no matter how the nominee is chosen.
It's pretty obvious.
So the question then becomes, why are they still in the race?
Now, some people might say, well, Kasich, you've got to understand he's got to stay in Ohio because that's his home state.
Okay, so it's about him.
Okay, you want to admit that it's about him.
Kasich is staying in because it's good for him.
You know, and we want to talk about sullying the process.
Rubio, why is he staying in?
He can't, he's not gonna, he's not gonna win the delegate fight.
Now, there might be a case that could be made that if we get to this so-called brokered convention that the establishment could find a way to make Rubio the nominee, but I'm telling you, if they try that with a guy that has zero delegates, he had zero delegates yesterday.
If they try to put a guy on the ticket, top of the ticket with zero delegates or 10 or 50, there's going to be utter chaos.
Yeah, I can't see that happening.
So why is Rubio staying in?
When there's no way he can win it, why is he staying in?
Okay, is the reason he's staying in to harm crews because there's personal hatred, professional rivalry, personal dislike.
So you ask the question of both Kasich and Rubio, why are at this point now?
I'm not talking about last week, the week before, today after yesterday's results.
Are they staying in just to hurt Ted Cruz?
Well, I don't know, but if they are, is that what we want?
You're shaking your head.
No, why are they staying in then?
Wait just a second.
Wait a second.
We just snurdly just said Rubio can't quit the 40 faces of voters in Florida.
That would be absurd.
There are a lot more people today than on Monday.
Saying that Rubio could do real permanent damage to his political career if he stays in and gets schlonged.
And sp not just quits, but if he quits and throws his supports like Fiorita, there's a way to salvage this is the point.
If he quits and goes home, yeah.
But he's not going to quit.
Look, I've got to take a break here because I'm getting as always.
Right when I'm getting to the payoff, we've got to take a break.
And we are back.
El Rushbow with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Folks, I can't.
I was just telling Snardley, 9:30, 10 o'clock this morning.
I'm going through show prep, but I'm putting this all together and I'm just absorbing everything.
I'm not making any calculations, and I'm not adding delegates or any of that.
And I'm at the time I'm thinking about here's Kasich and Rubio, and just they're they're both hopeless in terms of their own chances to win.
And little I don't know, flash in my mind that said Ted Cruz can win this.
That this isn't a the delegate spread right now's only a hundred delegates or something like it.
And if you look at the delegate count for the last week, the delegate count for the last week.
Cruz has won 125, and Trump has won 124.
Now don't miss it's a it's it's a long shot.
I really can't, I've I've not studied, I can't, I can't present to you a or lay out a scenario by which it happens.
It was just a gut reaction instinct to everything I was absorbing at the time.
And it's why I started pondering this.
Interesting aspect here that Rubio and Cruz or Rubio and Kasich have no prayer, yet they're staying in.
And in in both cases, you'd have to say they're both staying in for personal reasons.
Kasich staying in for his own state of Ohio.
What even though he knows he has no prayer.
And by the way, isn't it true that the only way anybody on the Republican side other than Trump has a chance is if there is unity on the anti-Trump side of this?
And if that doesn't happen, uh, and it's arguable that it will, I mean, Cruz uh is a polarizing figure, as we all know.
But if they're staying in just to hurt Cruz, if Rubio is staying in just to hurt Cruz, it wouldn't surprise me, there's animosity there, and did o'cask, if the primary reason they're staying in is not just to get to their home states and do well so they have bragging rights or what have you.
But if they're in this specifically to hurt Cruz.
Uh doesn't that kind of argue against what we've all been told is the purpose of this whole process.
Because if the party coalesces behind Cruz, which the politico has a story today about how the party's tiptoeing and they're not really crazy about it, Carly Fiorina did today, endorsed crew as a great stem winder speech of an introduction for Cruz down in Miami.
Uh Cruz was not supposed to do anywhere near as well as he did in last night's or yesterday's elections.
He actually expanded beyond his appeal to evangelicals.
So, anyway, it's something to think about as to as to when these two guys get out and what it because if look at all this is academic.
If Trump does win Florida and Ohio, then it's it's pretty much it, isn't it?
Not, I mean, not officially, but Illinois, yeah.
So anyway, it's pedal to the metal time.
It is the fastest three hours in media.
We have a couple more to go, and we'll get to them quickly.
We've got your phone calls to squeeze in here, and it looks like a a great roster of people waiting to get on.
So everybody be patient.
Hang in there, be tough, and we will be back before you know it.