The General Electric Company for many decades owned NBC. The three chimes of the NBC jingle are the notes G-E-C. During the radio era if that chime ever had a fourth note, that was a signal for NBC employees to go into work because a major news story (i.e. D-Day) was about to break.
I think it's 10^8 instead of 108. That way it would make sense.
#4 somehow doesn't make any sense
The national nut is Trump
Technically, everything you see & hear is from the past.