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Dec. 20, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 20, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rushbow, executing assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes, firmly ensconced here in the prestigious the distinguished Attila the Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Phone number is 800 282-2882 and the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Hey, I intended to go to the phones in the first hour, but I'm gonna be Mr. Snerdley did not.
There wasn't one call.
Mr. Sturdley judged to be airworthy.
I mean, I I'm he's talking hundreds of people.
Oh, he's getting frustrated in there.
As I noticed until I got up to leave here, there was one call up there.
So it's been an hour.
He said he can't find anybody worth putting on the air.
So I'm not playing any games here, folks.
I've been I was wanting to go to the phones in the first hour.
Um we'll try to squeeze as many as we can here, and I've still got to go back and I've got to explain to you what I really think about this Michelle Obama hopelessness business that she told the Oprah.
Um we have some other sound bites in that interview to get to as well, but I just want to prove this to you.
Grab audio soundbite number 19.
CNN, you would never know if you were if you landed from Mars today, and the first thing you did was turn on CNN, you would never know that we just had a presidential election.
You would never have heard of Donald Trump.
You wouldn't know about Hillary Clinton.
You wouldn't know anything because they are not talking about it at all.
Guess what they have gone back to reporting.
The mystery over missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 takes another twist, a new twist.
A new report has revealed that searchers have almost certainly been looking in the wrong place.
No.
After all this time, searchers are looking in the wrong place.
This must be the fourth or fifth time we've had that report.
I mean, just to show you they're scraping the bottom of the barrel at CNN in order to avoid talking what happened about what happened.
This is so paramountly obvious to me.
They're devastated.
I think, you know, Sturdley asked me earlier, do you really think these people Yes, I do.
I think they live their fantasies.
I think I think they I think I think they live so many delusions that they're unstable.
I really do.
I think I think these people on the left from the highest levels on down are a new kind, special kind of stupid, and it's highlighted by a massive instability.
And I think a lot of them in the news media uh in the elected branch of the party, I think a lot of them really, really believed.
First, that the recount was going to promote Hillary, the Jill Stein recount, that there were going to be enough found there to throw a deep dark question on the whole process.
And that's why they spent so much time on the supposed Russian hacking of the election, which there wasn't any hacking of the election.
The Russians didn't hack the votes, and they didn't hack the count.
And that's what you would have to do to hack the election.
There's no way anybody could.
There are too many precincts where voting is taking place.
You couldn't hack with a computer, computer series of computers with with IT technology.
You could not hack an election.
You'd have to get hold of every counting mechanism.
And it was just too massive to be undiscovered if something like that were to even be attempted.
So there was no hacking of the election, but they could not drop it.
They stayed for then this electoral college thing came up.
And you don't don't tell me you don't think they threw everything they've got into it.
They invested every bit of their hope and all of their dreams and all of their desires.
And I think these people these people live in so many illusions and delusions, it's hard to keep track of them.
The biggest, the biggest delusion from which they suffer is that they are a majority of the country, that they and the way they think is the vast majority of thinking in the country, and they aren't, and it isn't.
And they face a rude awakening every time this is reinforced.
And it's been reinforced in elections in 2010, 2012, 2014, and this past election.
Then the Jill Stein recount doesn't provide them what they want, so then they moved on to the Electoral College.
And they really thought that they were going to.
It wasn't Solely that they were trying to delegitimize Trump.
That was part of it.
But that wasn't it.
They were literally trying to steal this.
They threw everything they had into it, short of Obama and Hillary going on TV and personally advocating for it.
But Obama in his own way was.
And Hillary in her own way was, and it was money provided by supporters of both Obama and Hillary, which funded these efforts.
And I'll tell you, the deeper you get to the grassroots level, the greater the delusion and belief is.
And I really believe some of these people literally thought that yesterday they were going to take this election away from Trump.
Maybe not give it to Hillary.
But they were going to take it away from Trump.
And now that they've failed, folks, it's dangerous.
It's like I've been telling you since the election.
We are really, really at a preciously dangerous moment.
It's nothing precious about it.
We have the party that still has the levers of power in a giant, giant psychological mess.
And it's it's, I think it's being navigated with great, great acuity by the Trumpster and his associated minions.
Because it really is precarious out there.
So I do believe that they really thought they were going to be able to make something happen that would cause a majority of the American people to change their minds about electing Trump.
Really do.
Do not do not doubt me on this.
You may look at the project as impossible.
It's too massive.
They couldn't possibly think they were going to succeed.
Yes, they could think they were going to succeed.
Remember, they're delusional.
What's the definition of insanity?
Doing the same thing over and over again where the outcome is already known?
Well, it may fit here.
Now, I mentioned earlier that there are three shrink professors, psychiatry professors at Harvard, who've sent Obama a letter.
I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the letter.
Dear Mr. President, we are writing to express our grave concern regarding the mental stability of our president elect.
Professional standards do not permit us to venture a diagnosis for a public figure whom we have not evaluated personally.
Nevertheless, Mr. Trump's widely reported symptoms of mental instability, including grandiosity, impulsivity, hypersensitivity to slights or criticism, and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Who is it that's sick here?
Who are these people describing?
They're describing themselves.
I just explained it flawlessly.
Mr. Trump's widely reported symptoms of mental instability.
Cut to the video of the woman losing her cookies in Madison yesterday.
That would be Obama.
Impulsivity, that would be the Democrats, hypersensitivity to slights or criticism, that'd be Harry Reed, and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
That'd be the whole Democratic Party.
Lead us to question Trump's fitness for the immense responsibilities of the office.
We strongly recommend that in preparation for assuming these responsibilities, Mr. Trump received a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation by an impartial team of investigators.
Signed Judith Herman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Nanette Gartrell, MD, associate clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, and assistant professor of psychiatry, psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, D. Mossbacker, MDPHD, assistant clinical professor, Department of Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco.
Okay, so who are these babes?
Nanette Gartrell, D. Mossbacker, and Judith Herman.
Gartrell is a Retired psychiatry professor, currently the principal researcher for the national longitudinal lesbian family study.
Again, Nanette Gartrell is currently the principal researcher for the U.S. national longitudinal as opposed to latitudinal.
Longitudinal lesbian family study.
It's an outfit which tracks lesbians who have children through artificial insemination.
Again, Nanette Gartrell, University of California, San Francisco, retired professor of psychiatry.
Principal researcher for the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, which tracks lesbians who have children through artificial insemination.
Gartrell is married to D. Mossbacker, one of the other authors to the letter of uh letter to Obama on Trump's instability.
Mossbacker, a retired professor and filmmaker who understands the suffering caused by homophobia from a psychological and psychosocial point of view, is Gartrell's spouse of forty years, according to Gartrell's bio.
Photos of Mossbacker and of Gartrell show them with identical haircuts and remarkably similar eyeglasses.
A website promoting a book by Gartrell features a photo of Obama sandwiched between Gartrell and Mossbacker with his arms around both of them.
It's the Obama sandwich, as opposed to the waitress sandwich that Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd did.
It's the Obama sandwich.
The two psychiatry professors married to each other for 40 years, sandwiching Obama, and his arms are around both.
Mossbacker's father was Robert Mossbacker, the U.S. Commerce Secretary under President George H. W. Bush.
Herman, the third author of the letter questioning Trump's fitness, is a part-time psychiatry professor at Harvard.
She's the author of a book entitled Father Daughter Incest, a rethinking of incest that is profoundly passionately feminist.
Okay, you you want to add this up now?
Let's add this up.
We have a letter that these three women sent to Obama, two of them are married to each other for 40 years.
They're all lesbians.
The two that are married, one of them runs the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, which tracks lesbians who have children through artificial insemination.
And the other one has written a book called Father Daughter Incest, a rethinking of incest that is profoundly passionately feminist.
These three imminently stable individuals have written a letter to Obama demanding that he order Trump to undergo a neuropsychiatric evaluation to determine.
To determine whether or not he is fit for the immense responsibilities of the office.
and this made big news I mean this is it's in the daily caller it's all over Harvard major major big news No, it it I need not offer any comment here.
I think story speaks for itself in many ways.
Okay, we now have a roster of calls from which to choose, and we're gonna start in Kansas City with Marie.
Marie, thank you for calling.
Great to have you on the program today.
How are you?
I'm fine, and it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
Same here.
I'm glad you got through.
Well, yes, it wasn't too hard.
Uh my comment, I haven't heard anybody else say this, but I do believe people feel this way when Michelle Obama was talking about The hopelessness and oh the lack of hope and how things will be so awful.
Well now she feels the way we felt eight years ago.
That was my thought.
Uh well that's that's that's true, although I I think there's uh much, much more to this than a little bit of reciprocity.
You know, where does where does this come from?
I mean, you can you could say, for example, what about the people who voted for Trump?
I mean, how about people who haven't had a raise in 15 years, or are people that have been forced to pay through the nose the money they don't have for health care or face a fine for it, or people who are watching the borders of their country be erased.
I mean, that's not just hopelessness, that's in that's anger.
But what interests me more than anything about all this is Michelle Obama's attitude that that allows her to acknowledge feeling hopeless.
She said she didn't feel proud of her country until her husband was nominated for president, and now that he's leaving, she's back to feeling hopeless again.
And look where she lives.
And look at the airplane she flies on, and look at the parties that she throws, and look at all of the advantages that she has had because of being in America, and yet she runs around.
You know what her favorite word is, Marie?
Struggle.
Struggle.
Every time Michelle Obama does a personal appearance somewhere, it is about the struggle.
And that's what I want to delve into.
But before I get there, I need to ask you what kind of iPhone, new iPhone would you like, a seven or a seven plus?
Ooh, I think a seven plus.
Seven plus who's your carrier?
Uh T-Mobile.
T Mobile.
Okay, so pick your color.
I think we've got every color.
I think rose gold.
Rose Gold.
All right.
We're I know I'm getting down to, but I do think I've got one in there for you.
If not, if I'm out of rose gold, which I do think I have one, I'll send you a gold one.
Okay.
All right.
Now it may have an ATT SIM card in it, Marie, but it'll work on T-Mobile.
The phone I'm sending will work on either one of those.
The phone's unlocked.
So take your current phone and the new one to the uh T-Mobile store and tell them you want to move your number to it and they'll take care of you.
Now don't hang up.
Mr. Snerdley needs to get your address so we can get this uh out.
This is week five, my friends.
This is the fifth week now of every caller being offered a brand new iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus.
And every caller today also gets a one-year subscription to Rush 24-7 and a copy of the latest Rush Revere book, Rush Revere and the Presidency.
What uh what interests me about Michelle Obama and this the struggle, uh I am viewed as one not down with the struggle.
Now here's Michelle Obama who is living a life in the top one percent of the top one percent.
She has traveled more places in the world than most people will even dream of going.
She has lived in one of the finest homes in America.
She flies around on the finest airplane and the safest and most secure airplane known to exist.
And when that one's not available, she gets one of her own.
If she wants to go to Hawaii a couple days before her husband, they put her on an equally large or close to it large airplane with family and her kids and her mother, and they vacations are all paid for, meals are all paid for for the most part, and her husband earns 400,000 a year doing this, which they can pretty much bank all of it because most of their expenses are covered.
And yet Michelle Obama continues to talk about the struggle.
Now she's a leftist, and I know what the struggle is.
And I frankly, folks, I'm I'm beginning to I'm I'm I'm growing weary of it.
The struggle is the premise that minorities do not have a prayer in America.
The deck is so stacked against them that they don't have a chance.
And this struggle To overcome this great injustice is never ending.
She speaks of the struggle, and you have to call it the struggle, not the struggle.
It's SH, the struggle.
Every time she makes a public speech, it is a feature of every practically every speech that she makes.
And what does it do?
It reinforces the legitimacy of the struggle.
Why would you want to depress people?
Why would you not want to inspire them?
Why would you not want to use your own example as a way of inspiring others to also attempt to achieve in a like manner?
Why do you, why would you want to present your own success as an aberration and something that is not because of the greatness of America, that your success, in other words, her husband being elected, happened despite America.
It is this ongoing reference of the struggle that I think keeps people permanently in an attitude, a mental attitude of impossibility.
And it's an unjust, unfair portrayal of America today.
That I just don't think is helpful.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Now, by the way, part and parcel of Michelle Obama and her husband talking about the struggle is that they try to make it look like or may make it appear that everybody's up against this struggle.
And what gets to gets gets me about it is that it's an argument that this country's unjust and immoral and unfair, and and I just uh my patience for this is wearing up because it's a never-ending thing.
No matter how much progress is made, there's never any acknowledgement of it.
Whatever progress is made is ignored or sometimes even turned around and said to be an example of the inherent immorality of the country since the founding.
And I know what it's all rooted in.
I mean, these people are socialists, they don't like capitalism, and they're trying to transform or overthrow the country and make it into a different thing.
But at some point, you know, it it wears people out.
And I think this election, people don't want to hear these things about their country.
They don't they don't they don't want to think that this is the country they live in, and they don't think this is the country they live in.
Anyway, another example here of the left having lost its mind.
Special kind of stupid.
This is in the Washington Post.
Are you ready for the headline?
The Electoral College is thwarting our ability to battle global warming.
The Electoral College is thwarting our ability to battle global warming.
Anybody got that uh electoral college recount going yet?
Anyone on the Democrat side uh suggests that there might have been fraud in the electoral college recount?
We got, of course, global warming is now being affected negatively by the Electoral College.
How does this work?
Well, let's see what the Washington Post says about this.
Over the course of the last 200 plus years, the Electoral College, which provides for stronger voting power per person in more rural and less populated states, has elected four U.S. presidents who clearly lost the popular vote.
1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016.
Two of those elections have occurred during the period in which we have known about the causes and impacts of carbon dioxide emissions and climate change in both cases.
The impacts of those elections have very likely had profound impact on our actions to address the challenge.
In 2000, George W. Bush was elected.
You see what this is?
We have this issue over here, which to them is their religion, so you can't argue it.
It is a matter of faith that human beings are destroying the planet, specifically the human beings in America and other Western developed nations are destroying the planet.
So that's out there.
We've had two elections here where candidates who believe this and who would have done a lot to save the planet have lost power because of the Electoral College.
Therefore, the Electoral College is thwarting our ability to battle global warming by causing advocates of global warming to lose the presidency.
It's just another attack on the Electoral College.
It's another attack on the Constitution.
It is another, it's part of the ongoing attempt here, which will this will become the new focus now.
We've got to get rid of the Electoral College, as evidenced by the fact that the clearly superior candidate lost, and by virtue of the fact that the really clearly superior candidate in 2000 lost.
This is a height of unfairness.
The American people are being denied the due Democrat process, and we've got to get rid of the Electoral College.
The way things are backfiring on the Democrats, they they they um they invoked the nuclear option in the Senate.
Now they're regretting having done that since they've lost control of the Senate.
And I guarantee what would happen if they ever succeed in getting rid of the Electoral College, what's gonna happen?
The next election.
The next election, the Republican candidate, is going to win the popular vote, but lose what would have been the electoral college vote and be elected, and they're gonna be mad about that, and they'll start campaigning to revive the electoral college.
I just I got a note from somebody who has an interesting theory.
You know, I've been talking about the 10-year-old boy, the caller yesterday called to tell he was mentoring him and ended up giving him Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and uh kid loves it and just now loves history and is for the first time in his life, actually has a passion about something that he wants to actively engage in, not just be a spectator of.
It was a great call.
And the the point was made, it's not just in education that young people are being lied to.
It's also the media.
Now, before you go, come on, Rush, everybody knows that.
Now wait just a second.
I'm gonna try to I think it's a great point.
Because the mainstream media really does and has been for the longest time, lie.
And as I, you know, I read omnivorously, I read everything.
I don't just read the stuff that reinforces what I believe.
I spend probably more time reading what liberals think and what they're writing.
Because I think it's crucial to understand it in order to be able to predict it, in order to be able to inform other people about it.
And what strikes me as I as I do this is how infallible, for example, millennials, millennial liberals, millennials, maybe in general, how infallible they believe the New York Times to be.
not just that it's the news authority, it's infallible.
They think that NBC Nightly News or CBS Nightly News or ABC is infallible.
Whatever anything is said or written in the mainstream media, they just absorb it all as gospel.
They don't even question it.
And so the New York Times really is writing some insane stuff these days.
The op-ed page on the New York Times yesterday and the editorial page, it was all devoted to literally lunatic rants against Trump.
And many of these rants featured just outright lies and false allegations about things Trump is has Said and has done.
And these young little millennials are out there and they're reading and they're absorbing and they're believing all of it.
They they do not do what I do.
They do not expose themselves to things that they don't believe.
Like they would never listen to this program.
In fact, one of these little tech bloggers, way back when I first started mentioning this.
People, well, who are these tech bloggers?
Will you name some names?
We want to know what you're reading so we can read it too.
So I listed six.
And one of the six was so indignant that he said he was going to refuse to allow anybody arriving at his blog from this audience to have access to it because I am such a bigot.
They are they live in a closed-off area where they know nothing other than what's in really the New York Times.
I can't describe for you.
Shortly before the election, the New York Times announced that the web version was going to be free for two weeks.
And you would not believe that was one of the that was Christmas morning to some of these millennials.
Well, man, the Times is free.
It's not behind the payway.
And they started spreading the word so that everybody would know.
Now you and me, the New York Times is an embarrassment.
We know the New York Times is an ideological member of the Democrat Party and the American left, and it's not news and it's not factual, and they make things up and they're biased, all of those things.
But the people that read the New York Times, both on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and all of New York and wherever else in the country, it's it's infallible.
Now, the reason that's important is because the New York Times doesn't just lie about liberals and the liberal agenda, they also, as does the rest of the media, every day lie about us.
They lie about Republicans, they lie about lie about conservatives, they uh I mean, give you an example.
These people that I'm talking about really believe the Ku Klux Klan is part of Donald Trump's advisory board.
They because somebody at the Southern Poverty Law Center asserted that the Klan has ties to the Trump transition team.
That appeared in the New York Times, so they believe it.
I've found two pieces today, my little tech bloggers are just destroyed.
That their CEOs met with Trump.
They feel like well, here's a headline.
Trump Tech Summit exposed the rotten heart of Silicon Valley.
I feel like I've had the air punched out of my gut.
You want to hear some excerpts from this piece?
I've fallen into the trap of believing that tech companies are our friends and that they're here to help us live better lives.
But that meeting with Trump reminds me and should remind us all that tech companies are no different from the hated oil or pharmaceutical giants we so readily distrust.
They're duty bound to pursue profit above all else.
Of course, there is no altruism on Wall Street, and there's no altruism among companies traded on the stock market.
Google wants net neutrality because that protects its web services from being shut out by internet service providers, while Apple considers the privacy of its devices a strong selling point and therefore works hard to preserve it.
But they don't really care about their customers.
They only care about their bottom line.
Where the so-called Trump Tech Summit enters into this story is by exposing the raw and unvarnished hypocrisy of every tech company in attendance.
Donald Trump is not just another president.
He's a self-documented misogynist, a bigot, a thinly veiled racist, and a climate science denier.
And then this kid goes on and tells what he wishes every CEO from Silicon Valley had told Trump, basically to F off and walk out of the room.
Okay.
They do not listen to programs like this.
They don't read.
Take your favorite conservative publication.
They would never ever get anywhere near it.
And if they did, they would do nothing but get sick.
And so the point here is it's not just these people being lied to in the classroom.
Not just being lied to by their parents, but the media is an infallible source authority to them.
And the media lies to them each and every day.
Not just about people like Obama and Hillary, but about us.
And it's, folks, it's really striking.
Because, as I say, I spend the vast majority of my show prep time reading up on the left.
I mean, I know conservatism.
I am Mr. Conservative.
I am the Mr. Big of the best right wing conspiracy.
I know conservatives in my heart.
I don't need to know why I think what I think.
I figured that out.
But it's a forever project to understand the left.
Because it's illogical.
It doesn't make you it's it's a totally emotional endeavor.
And the effort to understand them to me is worthwhile so I can sound the warning bells and make predictions to you based on where I know they're going and what they're gonna do.
And I'm always right because I know them better than they know themselves.
They're arrogant, they're condescending, and they're know-nothings.
And they think they're the smartest people in the room.
So there are there are a lot of reasons why we are a divided country.
And one of the reasons is the media, which isn't media at all.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We'll continue right after this.
Don't go away.
Right on, back to the phones we go.
This is Helen, Newport News, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, Merry Christmas.
Same to you.
Rush, I am just calling to glow, clown, close.
Because after all, after the election, we had to put up with riots.
We had to put up with harassment of electors.
We had the whole phony vote count.
We had all of these stupid vigils.
We had chants from these people from the um protesters telling people uh the elections in Wisconsin.
Do your job, do your job.
Well, they did their job, and they gave Trump all the electoral votes in Wisconsin.
Okay, you had Superan in Texas trolling Trump on Twitter, and then you know who showed who's shown up to be totally useless.
Super.
He's no 9-11 fighter, he's a liar, right?
And he he was going on and on about the electors were slipping through Trump's tiny hands.
Well, hey, Rush, this is a new day.
This is a new GOP party.
We're not putting up with this kind of nonsense anymore from from from Democrats.
He had a belly full of it, and Trump has infused the GLP with a shot of manly management.
Well, look, and I I look at I know you're gloating here because everything right now appears to be backfiring on the left.
And I mean, they they they basically what you're saying is that they have been acting like the will of the people is with them, and we've come to find out that they've been doing everything against the will of the people, that the will of the people is not with them, and you're happy that everything's backfired on them, right?
Hell yeah.
I can hear you.
I got that idea that you're very happy things have backfired on the left here.
Yes, because let me ask you a question.
Now wait a minute, Helen.
Let me ask you a question real quickly.
Do you think the Republican Party has learned this?
No.
That is why we, the people have to kick their butt.
Okay, so that's why you're not gloating a hundred percent, because you're go you got some reserve gloat there waving because you're still worried that Republicans know how to throw this advantage away, right?
Yeah, because like I'm sticking it to the Democrats.
Because I was nice and polite and everything, you know, but look at what's the first one.
I know, but I know that election when the Republicans have had a chance to stick it to the Democrats, they haven't done it.
It took Trump doing it.
They haven't.
And the thing is, what we have to worry about now is that is that that little pineless wimp.
Mitch McConnell, he is quite likely to reinstate McFilibuster.
I spoke, I spoke a I spoke a little bit about that yesterday.
Uh we'll see.
I'm gonna wait on this to all play out.
There's a number of different scenarios that can happen here regarding McConnell and uh and and Ryan.
Right now, I want you to trust me.
They know Trump is the reason they run the House in the Senate.
And right now, they do not want to be at odds with Trump right now.
But, but, but, but, but there's always buttons.
They don't want to be at odds with us.
Uh that's exactly that.
You got that exactly right, too.
They don't want to be a little bit.
Helen, I'm out of time.
I need to ask you, what kind of new iPhone do you want?
Seven or seven plus?
Seven P. Seven plus.
Thank you, Rush.
Uh, which one?
Uh, a seven plus.
Seven plus, what's your carrier?
Uh, my carrier is uh a straight talk, but so it goes with any GSM.
Uh GSM, okay.
So that's fine.
What color?
Uh rose, rose gold or gold, anything.
I don't, you know.
Okay.
It's gonna be gold seven plus.
It'll be a GSM phone.
It might have an ATT SIM card in it, but just take that out.
It'll work.
Hang on.
Mr. Snerdley needs to get your address.
Don't go away.
No, it'll be fine.
She said her carrier straight talk, which is a GSM networks, it's an ATT T mobile model.
She'll be fine with that.
Helen in Newport News.
Man oh man.
Talk about a bundle of energy.
Okay, folks, one big exciting broadcast hour remains.
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