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Nov. 17, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 17, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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Look at this, folks.
I'm looking at CNN right now, and they've got Wolf Blitzer on.
There's a graphic at the bottom of the screen.
It says source.
Colin, Trump team developing plan to track immigrants.
No!
They wouldn't dare.
CNN.
I don't have the volume up, so I didn't listen, but I don't need to.
I can full well imagine the outrage and the anger and the shock that CNN is reporting here as there will be a team tracking immigrants.
Trump team plan to track.
And the Trump immigration advisor says there's not going to be a Muslim registry.
So CNN, no doubt confused, angry, outraged.
The entire meavy is because they're they have to be knowing they're failing right now in their efforts to de-legitimize the Trump victory.
Greetings and welcome back.
It's great that you're here.
The uh EIB network, Rushlin bought 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
A lot of people on hold that I want to get to, and I'm going to start quickly here.
I really worried that people are on hole for so long, but I just I'm compelled there's stuff here every day that the worst feeling is leaving here at the end of the program and going home and thinking I left so much good stuff on the desk, but I didn't get to.
Of course, you don't know because you don't know what's on the desk.
But I know, and it frustrates me.
So I'm I'm trying to get a lot of more individual content in because it's just it's it's blowing the doors off.
For example, the NFL has a Monday night game in Mako City.
The Houston Texans and the Raiders are going to be playing on Monday night in Mexico City.
And the Texans sent a memo to the players.
Houston Texans players are being advised by the team not to leave the hotel and not to order room service during their trip to Meiko City.
The AP obtained a memo distributed to the team on Wednesday that included a page of information concerning a trip.
A section of the memo under the heading safety had a bullet point with do not leave the hotel.
That was followed by a line advising players to leave all expensive jewelry at home, not to bring any large sums of money and not to use ATMs.
I mean, the image being created here is that they are going into the middle of a crime-infested sick, diseased area, and you had better.
You had better come in contact with nobody but other team members.
Do not do the ice.
Do not order room service is another, do not eat the food in the hotel.
Only eat your meals in the team meal room.
You know, when teams go to London, in many, in I don't think it's true in all cases, but many teams take every bit of food the team eats for whatever number of days there, four or five days.
They take their own chefs, and I'm sure they're gonna do the same thing in Meiko City.
They ship all the food.
Mexico apparently, one of the real commandments here is not to eat beef, and the reason for that is that Mako, in order to spur the growth of steers, uses a hormone that, if found in players, disqualifies them.
It's a performance-enhancing drug type thing.
It's called Clenbuterole or Clen Booterole.
And the memo even stresses this.
Consuming large quantities of meat while visiting Mako may result in a positive test for Clen Bouterole.
The memo told the players to please take caution if you decide to consume meat.
Understand that you do so at your own risk.
Clen Booterol has been banned in Mako as a growth enhancer for cattle, but uh it's suspected that it's still used by evil cattle ranchers.
Of course, by definition, all cattle ranchers are evil because they're destroying the planet.
The Raiders did not receive such a memo.
Because of course the Raiders, they they feed off poison.
I mean, they're the raided.
And as such.
They come from the black hole.
There's no way to poison them because they are poison.
Al Davis.
Arizona electors are being bombarded with requests to change their vote.
Are any of you worried about this?
Are any of you concerned about this?
Story from the Phoenix affiliate, K S A Z Eyeball News.
Donald Trump won Arizona, but could that change?
When the Electoral College convenes in December, and efforts underway to get some of the states, eleven members of the Electoral College to vote against Trump.
In 29 states, the electors chosen by the party are required to vote for their winning candidate.
Arizona's not one of those states.
The elector can vote however he or she wants.
And because of that, some people see an opportunity.
Can you imagine if this had happened after Obama?
Can you imagine if this just my favorite technique, one of them is reverse the rolls here?
Obama wins, and the Republicans immediately start sending massive amounts of emails to the electors saying, Don't, don't, don't, don't vote, don't vote for Obama.
You've got to vote for McCain.
Imagine what the media would do with that.
The media celebrating this.
And the electors are interviewed here.
Idaho Trump electors report a barrage of harassing messages, urging them to change votes.
There's obviously an organized campaign started by community organizers.
And I wouldn't doubt that I really wouldn't doubt that Clinton campaign people are behind this.
I wouldn't doubt it at all.
Whether or not it's Clinton campaigns Democrats, Democrats are behind this, flooding electors, flooding them with mail and email, threatening, demanding that they vote for Hillary.
In addition, speaking of mail, look at this from the Washington Post.
Kids are writing to Donald Trump asking him to be a kind president.
Dear Mr. Trump, please do not say mean things.
Signed Little Johnny.
It's pathetic.
These organized campaigns are pathetic.
What the Washington Post, well, here, let me just read to you.
In the wake of a bitter presidential race, whose aftermath has brought only more vitriol.
No, it hasn't.
There is so much excitement and happiness out that the vitriol is taking place among a very infinitesimal percentage of the population.
This is classic.
This is exactly what the media does.
It's just like what happened in Indiana with a religious freedom law, or whenever you have, say, bakeries refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
If you listen to the media, you would think the whole country is outraged at the bakery and want them strung up.
So the election of Trump has increased the vitriol.
No, it's increased the childishness, the immaturity, and the embarrassing display of really underdeveloped human beings that identify as Democrats.
In the wake of a bitter presidential race, many parents have found it difficult to draw out any positive aspects of the election to teach their children.
That's just a crock.
The vast majority of parents are happily explaining to their kids what happened if their kids don't already know.
But not according to the Washington Post.
The day after election day, Molly Spence Sahib Jummy.
Molly Spence Sahib Jami.
The day after the election, Molly Spence Sahibjani tried to do just that.
The mother, Molly Spence Sahib Jami in Seattle started a Facebook group called Dear President Trump, Letters from Kids About Kindness.
The idea to have children write letters to President Trump, elect Trump, about the importance of being kind to other people, even if they're different than you are, according to a description on the group's Facebook page.
Molly Spence Sahib Jamy, who lives in a state where voters overwhelmingly supported Hillary, said she knew many who disapproved Trump's vulgar language.
You know, this reminds me of this is the this is a an exact replay of the budget battle of 1995, where the Democrats accused the Republicans of starving kids with their school lunch cuts.
There are going to be massive cuts at a school lunch program, and kids were going to starve.
And the Democrats were out there pushing this narrative.
And somebody organized a letter writing campaign.
Teachers and so forth had their kids in class actually write letters to Newt Gingrich and members of Congress.
Please, I can't study when I'm hungry.
Please, I can't learn when I'm starving.
Please do not starve us.
And the media dutifully reported this as though it was happening in a mass basis all over the country.
And the Republicans caved to it.
This is where it all started in the modern era of starting.
The budget battle of 1995.
That's where it all started, the caving.
Oh my God, little kids are we're not anywhere.
The school lunch program was not cut.
It was actually increased.
It just didn't increase as much as the Democrats wanted it.
So they called that a cut.
And have little kids writing letters about starving.
And of course, the natural reaction to this is let's say that you are uh Mr. and Mrs. Molly Spence Sahib Jummy.
And you are in Seattle, the famous Sahib Jami couple, and you have three kids that go to approved government public schools.
And one day you learn that the school lunch budget is going to be cut.
What do you do?
You actually think your kids might starve rather than maybe feeding them lunch yourself.
This is the thing that missed everybody.
Okay, there weren't any cuts, but what if there were?
What if we simply ran out?
What if we couldn't afford it?
What if it didn't happen anymore?
It's a it's it's a hypothetical it would never happen.
Would parents just stand idly by and let their kids starve.
Are people that helpless?
Have people become that dependent that if the school lunch program suffers some budget cuts that they'll sit by and let their kids go hungry?
If that would even happen.
But this is what they love to portray.
They love to portray helpless dependent people driven to near insanity, the very thought that a government program will have a penny less this year than it had last.
Let me grab a phone call quick.
I'll break the format.
I'll take a call in a monologue segment.
You ready?
Ready in there, here we go.
Elliot in Wilmet, Illinois.
Illiot, glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, thanks for taking my call, Rush, and thanks for getting us through the election.
The uh when I wanted to make a point of uh I think we need a reminder that uh of how George Bush made the mistake in in trying to help things along the rough 2000 election.
It made the mistake of leaving people in the in position, some of the positions in uh in the administration in order to be nice to the Democrats.
He didn't realize that when Democrats lose the election, they still never ever give up.
They don't go away.
And uh that's the good thing to for Trump to be uh tough on that and to get what he needs when he wants it.
I'll tell you everything I'm seeing is that you don't have to worry about that.
I mean, they're pretty much saying Pence is out, and he's in charge of the transition.
Mike Pence is out saying that he's been briefing Members of the Republican caucus in the House and Senate to get ready because a massive sweeping series of proposals, a massive agenda is coming.
I don't think this presidency is going to be ceremonial.
I think when they said they were going to drain the swamp, I meant it.
They meant it.
I think that they're going to hit the ground running.
I think.
Look, Trump is not a mystery.
You can read the art of the deal.
You can find out how Trump, you can see his businesses and the way they've run.
You can find it.
He rolls up his sleeves and he gets involved in negotiations personally.
Many people like Trump delegate those kinds of things.
He is personally involved in a lot of things, and he doesn't waste any time.
I read a story about a guy last week.
It was from earlier in the campaign, who uh was not a Trump fan, not a Trump supporter, but he had run a company that had to do a deal with Trump, and he described what the actual negotiations were like.
And he said he was stunned.
On the first day negotiations, there were no highs.
How are you doing?
Do you want to cross saw it?
It was roll up the sleeves and get right down to it.
Give me the specifics.
Tell me what you want, what are your demands?
Give me your facts and figures.
And it was done and over with in record time.
There were no pleasantries, there were no delays.
It was just dead serious from the moment the negotiations began.
And people have been involved with Trump throughout his business life, all say tell pretty much the same story.
It's not that he's not a nice guy.
It's just that you're meeting for a specific reason.
He doesn't meet to meet, you didn't meet to meet people, he doesn't meet to have conversations.
There's a meeting about a negotiation for some deal.
You get in there, get it, and get out.
You get the best you can, you don't apologize, and you move on to the next one.
That's who Trump is.
It's how he operates.
It's how he's going to try to operate as president.
He believes he can.
He thinks the insider way of basically doing nothing while you talk about how much you're doing is bogus.
It's it's it's clear to me with what what they're openly admitting to, this massive sweeping agenda.
They're using terms like drain the swamp at places like the Department of Justice and the EPA.
But Elliot here is right.
You know, the acrimony in a country after the 2000 election was really, really deep.
There was angry, uh anger and distrust and division, and it was all about the Florida recount.
And because of the Florida recount, George W. Bush got a late, late start in his own transition.
They got a late start.
We didn't have a attorney general for a couple of months.
I think it was attorney general.
We didn't have a couple of months after he was inaugurated.
It was some cabinet positions.
There were many that were not filled.
But because of the acrimony and because of the magnanimity of the Bushes, old Elliot here is right.
George W. Bush purposely left a bunch of Clinton appointees in all cabinet areas, Department of Justice, the EPA, uh health and human services, whatever.
He left them in place as a sign of goodwill.
It was his means and method of healing the country and showing goodwill and his desire to work with the vanquished.
And it didn't work.
It didn't make them any less hateful.
It never does.
So I I wouldn't worry that that's what Trump is engaged.
I think people are gonna have it's gonna be long time, because people aren't gonna want to believe this at first.
Trump is not of politics.
Trump doesn't live where it takes two years to get a piece of legislation done.
You do this in three or four days.
I think people are gonna be shocked to see how Trump attempts to move things along here.
He's very serious about this.
I have no doubt that things are just beginning.
Winning the election is not worth his end.
Back in a moment.
Jacksonville, Florida, Scott, welcome.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Manheim steamroller.
Pat a pan, Megadiddos from Jacksonville, Florida.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
And I do have a tech question at the end.
you know, I am on my slow as molasses iPad 2 last night, mind my own business, and I see Hillary Clinton at this event, and she says, you know, I felt like staying in bed, staying with my dogs.
And Rush, the way she looked, it looks like she just rolled out of bed.
I mean, no makeup, didn't run a brush to her hair, and I respectfully deg disagree with Mr. Sterley.
I don't think she did this on purpose.
I think that's just the way she was, and she didn't care.
Well, you may be right, as I have pondered this, and knowing the Clintons as I do, it is entirely possible that this could have been part of a strategic behavior designed to create and evoke sympathy.
I mean, she loves making herself a victim.
And she went out and started complaining.
Oh, it's been so hard.
So hard.
And if she's gonna go out and complain about how hard it has been and how she didn't even want to come to this thing, it would help that along if she looked like, as you say, she just got out of bed.
And the Clintons are strategic in this way.
The one thing that that that argues against this is people just don't understand a woman not making an effort.
Of her standing of her stature.
I mean, you just don't see it.
And so you go go either way here on that.
Um anyway, I uh I appreciate the call.
I've got to run quick time out quick segment backward more in a moment.
Okay, in the effort, the ongoing effort to get it all in there.
It's now time to turn to the audio soundbite roster.
We've only played one audio soundbite today.
It was of the uh Reverend Lax uh requesting a pardon for Hillary Clinton from President Trump.
And of course, concomitant with that is the idea that she's guilty.
And you don't ask for a pardon for somebody if they're not guilty.
So the uh Reverend Zach pretty much admitted and sealed the deal.
Last night, Fox Business Network, program called After the Bill, co-host David Asman spoke with Trump transition team domestic policy advisor Ken Blackwell about reports of disarray in the Trump transition.
And to set things up, Asman introduced and played a clip of me from yesterday's program talking about this.
Rush Limbaugh talked about these media reports and everything's falling apart.
Here's what he had to say.
I'd like to get your reaction after listening.
The Trump transition team is not imploding, folks.
It is getting set to kick.
What the media is trying to tell you, apparently there was some uh some movement.
Trump decided to get rid of some people, the Chris Christie team, apparently.
Right.
This was the national security team.
And the reason why is that Christie was recruiting lobbyists.
Christie was recruiting people from the establishment.
Those are the people he knows.
And Trump's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Christie got canned.
Then people said, nah no, it's not because of the lobbyists because of Bridgegate.
If it was Bridgate, it wouldn't have been put in there in the first place.
That it's not a factor.
By the way, I've never been bleep before that.
All I said would kick ass.
Right.
Fox News making me sound like a profane Neanderful.
I'm just kidding.
They didn't.
That was not their intent.
Here's what Blackwell said in response.
President elect Trump himself and Vice President elect Pence are focused on this transition process.
And so they have been integrating folks who very talented people who were with them on the campaign trail who they kept focused on winning the election, which they did big time.
And now we're blending the two operations.
We're shaking out in a definitive way into a lean mean machine that will deliver a platform from which the president and vice president can launch their agenda starting day one in the administration.
Right.
Exactly what I said.
He was confirming it.
Yesterday I also mentioned that we had seen Ted Cruz uh going up the elevator at Trump Tower, and that I had heard he's up there for five hours and spent a full hour with Donald Trump himself.
And I speculated I'd heard some people say that it might have had something to do with Trump thinking of putting Cruz on the Supreme Court, or Trump putting Cruz over at the Department of Justice as attorney general.
And I said, Now that would be cool.
Ted Cruz as attorney general would be cool.
Kellyanne Conway shot that down.
Said that's not going to happen.
In a few brief remarks to reporters at Trump Tower, Kellyanne Conway said yesterday that uh President-elect Trump will make a Supreme Court pick from the list of 21 candidates that he identified during the campaign.
She said you've seen the list of 21, and the list is not changed.
President elect Trump has committed to choosing his Supreme Court justices, particularly the vacancy created by the death of uh Justice Scalia.
He's committed to choosing from that list of 21.
Ted Cruz isn't on it.
There are a lot of young people.
You know there are people 45 years of age on this list.
There's a lot of women on the would you stop and think for a moment, the nomination of a conservative woman to be on the Supreme Court.
Oh, would that not blow them out of the water on the left?
So Cruz, according to Kellyanne Conway, not in the running for Supreme Court justice, but but that she didn't say anything about attorney general.
And that that would be the real prize out there.
Here's Cruz.
He was on Fox and Friends this morning.
Steve Ducey said, you say that you want to work with President elect Trump.
You're talking about in the capacity as a senator or in the capacity of somebody on his cabinet or an executive level job in the regime.
I'm eager to work with the new president in whatever capacity I can have the greatest impact defending the principles that I was elected to defend, defending the principles of freedom, defending the Constitution.
And we spent a great deal of time talking about how when the voters give Republicans control of the White House, control of every executive branch, control of the Senate, and control of the House.
We gotta deliver.
I mean, it is time to put up or shut up.
Boy, is that right?
And and Rinch Previs said the same thing on this program last Friday.
There's no excuses now.
About the only excuse McConnell could offer, and I don't mean to harp on McConnell, but it's McConnell that was saying, well, you know, we uh we don't have the Senate.
I mean, we can't stop Obama.
You've got the House, we don't have so we gave him the Senate.
And then, well, you know, you still got Obama over in the White House.
We really can't stop.
Okay, so we've given you the White House.
About the only thing left they could say, well, we don't have 60 votes.
I hope we don't hear that.
I really, but Cruz is right in previous.
There's no excuses now.
And this was an agenda election.
This was not a change election, like they're trying to make you believe.
Liberalism and big government were sent packing.
Specific Obama policies were repudiated.
He himself campaigned on them and put them on the ballot.
So Ted Cruz is exactly right at the White House now and the House and the Senate, and it's time to use it with the Democrats at the largest disadvantage they've been at since the 1920s.
There are no excuses now.
None whatsoever.
So then Abby Huntsman, also on Fox and Friends, said to Cruz, Senator, there's been a lot of criticism from media saying that the transition's in total chaos, that they don't know what they're doing.
They've not appointed uh single cabinet position yet.
What was your sense of being behind closed doors there with President elect Trump?
Is it in total disarray?
No, of course not.
I thought that was complete silliness.
Now, nobody should be surprised that there are media critics who are trying to throw rocks at the president-elect and at the transition team.
They don't want the president to succeed.
What I saw from the president-elect on down to every person at the transition was men and women working hard with an enormous task in front of them, a task of bringing together a new administration of hopefully talented principles, effective leaders who will be loyal to the president and loyal to the agenda that he campaigned on that we promised the American people.
I think that's happening.
The transition team is motoring.
You people have got to remember, or they've got to learn, maybe.
Donald Trump, and this I think is large part why he was elected, is not of the political establishment.
And I mean in any way.
Donald Trump Trump is not.
He's not slow and plotting unless that is a negotiating tactic.
But he's achievement and goal-oriented, and he does not waste time.
And the ceremonial waste of time is something for which he will have no patience.
And there is so much ceremonial waste of time in the official establishment ways of doing things.
It's largely ceremonial in many ways.
And by that I mean there are protocols to follow.
Let's say you have a task.
You have, let's say you're going to have a commission on closing military bases, and you schedule your first meeting a month from now.
And then at that meeting, you'll get together in two more months.
That's not how Trump is going to do this.
The meeting is going to happen next week, and if there's a further needing meeting needed, it'll happen really soon.
I think establishment types and political professionals, both in and outside the government, media, all kinds of people washing ahead, better get ready for the break breakneck pace that Trump is going to try to bring to this.
Now, the establishment's not going to roll over, and there are going to be plenty of Democrats with procedural moves, say in the Senate try to slow things down.
But that's Trump is not going to be the one slowing things down.
You watch, folks.
This it's it's the reason Trump was elected is going to be on display.
And people are going to like it.
That's another thing.
People are going to like it.
They are going to like the purposeful, intentional pursuit of these objectives.
Because these objectives are going to be sought for substantive reasons, not for public relations reasons, not for buzz.
Trump is going to want to get things done to get things done.
He's not going to want to just survive on a peering to want to get things done.
It's a big big difference.
Trump is going to plow through this bureaucracy like an establishment member would not.
Mark my words.
Keep an eye on it.
Could be really fun to watch.
Hey, has FedEx shown up?
What the heck?
Well, they better get here before three o'clock.
What is going on?
What is delivered by 1030 mean?
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
So there I am reading my tech blogs today.
I took a little break, scoured the tech blogs, not to delve deeply just to see what was popping.
And I saw a headline.
Apple could make iPhones in U.S. in future.
And I said, whoa!
Now wait just a minute.
Remember during the campaign, Trump said he was going to make Apple make iPhones in America.
And everybody said can't happen, including me.
I said this cannot happen.
And the reason it can't happen, well, there are many reasons why I thought it couldn't happen.
I mean, I could go through some of them right now.
I mean, you could do it, but you couldn't keep the price what they are now.
They would be significantly more expensive.
Simply because the volume.
We don't have in the United States factory infrastructure to manufacture iPods.
Not in quantity, not if they were all made here.
They could make a few here if they wanted to split it up.
But the factories in China where iPhones are made, there's two companies that make iPhones.
One's called Han High Precision, and their anglicized name is FoxCon, and another company called Pegatron.
And Foxconn makes the vast majority.
They have factories where there are as many as 300 to 500,000 people on the assembly lines.
The iPhone is one of the greatest technological marvels in consumer electronics ever.
The amount of research and development and precision and technology in an iPhone, I guarantee you, 99% of people who use them have no idea.
Not that they should.
They just use them.
That's what they're for, and they just work.
But the technology in these things is mind-boggling how far we've advanced, the precision of manufacturing, the miniaturization in sizes.
It is it's mind-boggling if you get into it and find out about it.
I mean, just the and Apple's procedures in manufacturing just the cases for the phones, just the uh the glass, well, they've subcontracted that out to Corning, but trust me, it is an amazing undertaking.
They are not machine-made.
Parts of them are, but the final assembly has to be done by hand.
And to manufacture these things in the quantities that Apple needs them, they have numerous factories of anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 people.
And the people who work at the factories live there.
The factories are all inclusive.
They are residential, they have hospitals, parks, and they run 24-7.
We don't have anything like that in America.
That it's it's it's all been, I want to say farmed out, but it's it's it's just stuff that American manufacturing doesn't do.
So anyway, Trump on the campaign trail starts talking about jobs that have been shipped overseas, and he says he's gonna boycott Apple, and he has been.
He's been using Samsung phones to tweet.
He's gonna boycott Apple until they're made in America.
And everybody, if that's not possible, including me, not if you and certainly not to shift the entire manufacturing load.
So I get up to date, I read this, and I see that that the two manufacturers, FoxCon actually, has been told by Apple to look into establishing manufacturing centers in the United States for iPhones.
Now, whether it happens or not, stop and think of what has happened here.
Over the course of these many years since NAFTA has manufacturing jobs have fled, we've been told it's the way of the world.
We like buying cheap quality products, and we can't manufacture those products with American labor and sell them at the same prices.
And manufacturers also always want to sell at the lowest price they can while maintaining a significant profit margin.
And competition forces you to do what you can to keep prices low.
Apple's a little insulated from that because they've carved out a niche where they don't mind being the most expensive in the in the field.
They don't mind being the most expensive smartphone, and they don't mind that people will are willing to pay a little bit more for theirs than other people pay for other brands.
Um but even so, they're very, very cost conscious.
So with just one claim by a candidate who's now become president.
Now look.
Now something everybody, including me, thought taxes, no way, and somebody better tell Trump.
He may not know what all goes into making an iPhone and the supply chain.
Look, folks, it's so the the number of parts, the number of products in a smartphone would blow you away.
And it's not just the factories that are in China, but all of the manufacturers of all the parts are in China.
Taiwan, Vietnam, they're all over there.
And if you're at Foxconn and you need a shipment, say of LTE modems, they're down the road.
The manufacturer, even if it's Qualcomm manufacturing's over there, then they're down the road.
If you're manufacturing an iPhone in America, say San Diego, you'd have to bring back onshore a lot of the parts manufacturing as well.
If you're going to assemble them here, the parts are going to have to be available.
It's a massive undertaking.
But anyway, the fact is that Apple is now, whether they mean it or not, acknowledging that they're looking into doing it.
And they were not Trump supporters.
Well, the executive team wasn't.
I find the whole thing fascinating.
It probably isn't going to happen, but they nevertheless thought it wise to float the idea that they are looking into the possibility of doing it.
Okay, folks, that's the end of the second of three exciting and busy broadcast hours today in our daily excursion into broadcast excellence.
But we have much more straight ahead, still a lot to try to cram into our remaining busy broadcast hours.
Thanks so much for being with us as always.
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