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Aug. 22, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 22, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi, we're back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh and the prestigious at Tilla the Hun Chair of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am America's real anchor man.
Hosting a program that meets and surpasses all audience expectations on a daily basis.
So I just checked the email.
I just checked the email in the top of the hour break, and I'm getting a lot of people who, hey Rush, how come you haven't commented on Iran saying they want to get into serious negotiations over their nuke program?
Now look, you people.
I'm going to try to maintain my composure here.
I opened the program discussing this.
It is, you know, you you people who listen to this program, you have a responsibility too.
I mean, I nobody can question my thoroughness in terms of covering the important items of the day as host of this program.
But you have a responsibility too to be here to hear it.
Right.
How come you haven't talked about the Iranian proposal?
You always thought of a hold of top of stuff.
We talk about it all on this program.
I realize there's just a precious few of you who are taking me to task for things I have already done.
Uh and I don't mean to be sounding cutting to all of you, but uh understand here.
Uh we're in our 19th year on this program, and there should be no question about the thoroughness of the job performed by me and my crew on this program.
If something's important out there, we talk about it.
Now, sometimes we don't do the most important thing first, uh, because it's arbitrary as to who thinks what's most important.
But for those of you who missed it, in the uh first segment of the first hour of the program, let me explain it to you very succinctly.
This is bogus.
The Iranians are not interested in negotiating away their nuclear program.
All this is is a cover.
There are at least two prongs to their strategy, and maybe third three.
The first is that they want to further the folly that negotiations work.
They know who their audience is.
They know that the European Union's made up a bunch of wusses, they know that America has a bunch of wusses, they know the United Nations defines the word wuss, and they know that there are diplomats and liberals all over the world and in this country who just practically have orgasms over the thought of dialogue and negotiations.
And so the Iranians throwing them a boat.
See, see you warmongers, see negotiation does work.
The Iranians are willing to talk.
Second thing is, although they're not going to give up didily squat, which leads to the second point.
The second point is they're afraid they're gonna get hit.
Up until January of 2009, anyway, and they can't take the risk.
They are afraid of George W. Bush.
They are um they are not confident at all that if it becomes well known how well developed their nuclear program is that it won't be taken out.
Israelis as well.
So the best way to forestall any action against them militarily is to get into the faux game of negotiation and diplomacy, and at the same time uh persuade the egghead elitists around the world that that actually works all the while.
Their program will be proceeding.
And we're gonna continue to develop it.
And anybody who doesn't understand that is dangerous and ought to be kept out of leadership positions.
We were talking about abortion just a moment ago, and I was uh I used it as an example in how do you negotiate uh and and compromise on your core beliefs.
Fascinating piece of the Wall Street Journal today, a commentary by um Arthur C. Brooks, who is a professor at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Public Affairs.
He's also the author of Who Really Cares?
The surprising truth about compassionate conservatism, which is forthcoming from basic books.
And it's a fascinating piece.
I just really need to read one paragraph to you.
And by the way, this is not unique, and we've all said this in a in a sort Of uh anecdotal way discussing things among ourselves.
But the data on young Americans tell a different story.
I should say the title of his column is the fertility gap.
Simply put, liberals have a big baby problem.
They aren't having enough of them, and they haven't had enough babies for a long time.
And their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result.
And they know this, by the way, which is why they're so interested in all these illegal immigrants as potential voters and felons as potential voters.
Now get this.
According to the 2004 General Social Survey, which is in caps.
I never heard of it, but it's apparently something.
If you picked, if you chose 100 unrelated politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had between them a hundred and forty-seven children.
If you picked 100 conservatives, the same way, unrelated, at random, you would find 208 children between them.
That is a fertility gap of 41%.
Now, given the fact that about 80% of people with an identifiable party preference grow up to vote the same way as their parents, this gap translates into lots more Republicans than little Democrats to vote in future elections.
Over the past 30 years, this gap has not been below 20%, explaining to uh a large extent the current ineffectiveness of liberal youth voter campaigns today.
I find this very interesting because you know, every four years we've got this rock the vote business, or we'll have P. Diddy, whatever he calls himself now out there with a t-shirt out, there's a voter die going to the Democrat convention.
You've got you got all these uh all these youth vote efforts, right?
And every four years a Democrat hang Democrats hang their hats on the fact that a youth vote is gonna wipe everybody out.
And when it doesn't happen, they well, the Republicans scared the senior citizens, and there are of course more of them, they've got more of a vested interest and so forth.
What this piece tends to indicate is that um even if they turn out all their young little meandering liberals, there still aren't enough to overpower the same young aged conservatives.
Now alarmingly, for the Democrats, the gap is widening at a bit more than half a percentage point per year, meaning that today's problem is nothing compared to what the future will most likely hold.
Consider future presidential elections in a swing state like Ohio, and assume that the current patterns in fertility continue.
A state that was split 50-50 between left and right in 2004 will tilt right in 2012 by 54 to 46%.
By 2020, it'll be certifiably right wing, 59 to 41.
Uh a state that is currently 5545 in favor of liberals like California will be 5446 in favor of conservatives by 2020, and all for no other reason than babies.
Now, this is statistics.
Yes, Mr. Sturtley, a uh question.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, the Democrats, uh, Democrats are aborting their party out of business.
Exactly right.
Uh, and they are promoting it.
Uh and they're making it a you know, you can almost say abortion's a birthright.
Uh for the democracy it's their sacrament.
Uh it is.
Abortion is a birthright to Democrats.
They are aborting themselves out of the majority.
Uh and it's you know, it sometimes make you wonder do we really want to oppose it?
All that much.
Okay, people have been patiently waiting to be on the uh on the program.
We'll go to funds here just a second.
But coming up, uh CNN attempting to downplay the latest approval rise uh in President Bush's numbers.
Here is Jonathan in New York City.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Rush, how are you?
I must say that uh I I work half a mile from the World Trade Center site.
I worked on the hundred and fifth floor of the World Trade Center until shortly before the 93 bombing.
And on September 11th, I walked to my office and um I wasn't sure about President Bush.
Since September 12th, I've been sure about President Bush.
And uh it's amazing to me as a Democrat in Manhattan with a lot of liberal friends.
How when we get into a discussion over this, all they can say is Bush is an idiot.
And they fail to understand that we are at war.
They fail to understand that the Democrats have no ideas.
And they fail to understand that the mainstream media is completely biased towards the democratic position.
And I re still read the New York Times, I still subscribe to it just to see how biased the uh the information is presented.
On the other hand, at least these days we have people like you, and I must say you are without peer in the type of work that you do uh easily.
Um that uh, you know, we we at least have the countervailing for uh viewpoint.
And what amazes me is people like Calb come out and present that the Times and people like that are the ones presenting it fairly, and people like you and Fox News are somehow biased um simply because they're presenting a view that Caleb doesn't agree with.
You are um amazing.
Uh Anita, I'm I'm you have spawned in my memory a story I have in the stack I'm trying to find here that explains uh why uh the liberals you described in Manhattan are that way, that uh you talked about Bush and all I can say is an idiot, that they don't care that there are no ideas, they don't seem to believe it we're at war, uh that uh the New York Times is the gospel, uh so forth and so on.
Uh and I don't know if I'm able to find it, but I remember it.
But before I before I share with you what the theory of this particular writer was, what do you explain it as?
I mean, how how how do you explain the fact that you came to grips with it, but others like you haven't in Manhattan?
Uh because it in it's it's almost ingrained in their personas.
Uh look, I grew up in Brooklyn and Brooklyn in the 1950s and sixties.
If you weren't a Democrat, you weren't anybody.
Everybody was a Democrat.
Right.
Um I also worked for George McGovern in 1972 when I was 18 years old, and when I turned 18 the year that uh eighteen-year-olds could first vote in the presidential election.
Um I didn't see the significance of Vietnam War at that point in time fighting over there.
But when they attacked us here, it didn't take a genius to figure out that we were under attack.
And when they killed 3,000 people, including several friends of mine, it didn't take a genius to figure out that we needed to do something about it.
And the the other thing that I want to mention, and I'm also Jewish, is to say that the reporting about Israel presents the perfect storm for the mainstream media because it combines their hatred of Bush, which supersedes anything, anything he does, regardless if he does if he proceeds in terms of Iraq in one way, he should have done the other way.
If he proceeds the other way in terms of Iran, he should have done it the uh the a third way.
Same thing for North Korea.
It combines that hatred with the visceral, and I'll say it on the air, anti-Israel sentiment that pervades this world.
Oh, there's a anti-Semitism.
No, qu oh, to some degree.
I mean, it's virulent.
Yeah.
Uh the United Nations is a repository for anti-Semitism.
My idea of the United Nations was to put them on top of the Freedom Tower and let Trump develop the uh the site where the United Nations currently is.
Yeah, well, here's the uh here's here's here's what I remember reading today, and I I I can't find it in the stack.
I've got three stacks here.
And I've been trying to find it while listening to you and speaking to you at the same time.
But if somebody attempted to explain the same phenomenon you did.
Here are liberals, and the sum total of their argument against Bush is he's an idiot.
And the person that wrote this, and I hope I'm able to find it, uh, made the point that liberals have always been arrogant and condescending.
And as such, have never really needed in their own minds to argue with people because it.
Oh, yeah, E.J. Dion is it.
What if I threw that away?
I mean if it was E.J. Dion that said yes, it was E. J. Dion.
All right, hang on.
Rather than paraphrase this, I am going to share with you what E.J. Dion is quoting somebody.
Uh and he's got a piece.
Last time he wrote it was about what's wrong with conservatism, how conservatism is losing.
Uh he writes now about How liberalism needs to uh win and grow.
I'll bet I threw the damn thing away.
Did I throw it away?
Did I throw it away?
Hang on.
Nope.
Here it is.
Here it is.
Um David S. Brown's Richard Hofstadter, an intellectual biography, offers us the life of one of our country's most revered historians.
Hofstadter, the author of such enduring popular works as the American political tradition, an age of reform, shaped modern liberalism in ways that we must still grapple with today.
But reading Brown is also a reminder of where Hofstadter may have misled the very liberal movement to which he was devoted.
There was first his emphasis on American populists as embodying a deeply ingrained provincialism whose revolt was as much a reaction to the rise of the cosmopolitan big city as to economic injustices.
Many progressives and reformers, he argued, represented an old Anglo-Saxon middle class who suffered from status anxiety in the reaction to the rise of a vulgar new business elite.
Hofstad is this all not gobbledygook.
Now just stick with me on this.
Many progressives and reformers represented an old Anglo-Saxon middle class who suffered from status anxiety.
Hofstadter analyzed the right wing of the 50s and the early 60s in similar terms.
Psychological disorientation and social displacement became more important than ideas or interests.
Hofstadter was exciting precisely because he brilliantly revised accepted and sometimes pious views of what the populists and progressives were about.
But there was something dismissive about his analysis that blinded liberals to the legitimate grievances of the populace, the progressives, and yes, even the right wing.
The late Christopher Lash, one of Hofstadter's students and an admiring critic noted that by conducting political criticism in psychiatric categories, Hofstadter and his intellectual allies excused themselves from the difficult work of judgment and argumentation.
Lash added archly, instead of arguing with opponents, they simply dismissed them on psychiatric grounds.
Now, the reason I I found this interesting is I am by no means a learned scholar nor intellectual, but in my repeated efforts to analyze these people, what have I said to you all over the years?
That for 50 years, liberals owned it.
They owned the media, they owned academia, they owned every institution.
And as such arrogance set in, and they never were challenged on what they believed.
They never had to explain what they believed, what they believed was just what was.
And in the present is what is.
Conservatives, on the other hand, during this time disagreed with them, came up with reasoned ideas and arguments to challenge them.
We had to.
We dealt with them within the arena of ideas.
These people, the liberals for 50 years, and Jonathan, this is what I was going to say to you.
These liberals for 50 years never once got into the arena of ideas they didn't challenge themselves.
Nobody outside them that they cared to challenge them.
So they've never had to justify anything.
They categorize their opponents as psychological idiots.
They disagree by simply discrediting people.
No liberal that calls here can hold his own for 30 seconds.
There's not one.
They don't try often.
Often they call and simply say Bush is a moron.
Bush is an idiot.
You're nothing but a lapdog for Bush.
But they can't make the case for their ideas.
And when you ask them, well, what would you do about the war on terror?
You get a blank stare.
And you get no syllables.
Because they have no ideas.
Liberalism is an arrogant attitude as much as it is.
It's got specific ideas.
And it has uh uh specific uh courses of action that they direct for people.
But when it comes to explaining them and defending them, they can't.
And they because they've never had to, and they had and they don't now.
I mean, even in the anti-war fringe of the Democrat Party, is based purely on one emotion, raw hatred.
Out of control, emotional hatred that's led them into an early stage of madness.
And uh E.J. Dion here is uh whether by accident or by design blaming it on this guy, Richard Hofstadter, who simply said that his political opponents were just psychologically disturbed.
It was beneath them to even pay them any attention.
And that attitude survives today.
And that, Jonathan, is why your libs in New York, your friends just can tell you only that Bush is an idiot, but nothing else.
Because they have no clue.
And we're back, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You know, I met Tony Bennett once, and I really enjoyed it.
Was it Patsy's?
And uh he was in having dinner, and uh and Joey came over the proprietor, said Tony Bennett wants to me.
I said, really?
Yeah.
So I got up and went over to talk to Tony Bennett for a while.
It was nice as he could be.
Um, and then when Clinton got elected, Tony was all over the place with Clinton parties and so forth.
It was a little let down.
You know, how could Tony Bennett like me and Clinton at the same time?
Uh.
And now uh Tony Bennett has slammed his home country of America for not contributing anything other than jazz music to world art and culture.
Uh the if I rule the world crooner feels that Europe and Asia offer far more culturally than America does.
Tony Bennett says, I've traveled around the world of Asia and Europe.
They show you what they've contributed to the world.
The British show you theater.
The Italians show you music and art.
The French show you cooking and painting, and the Germans show you science.
The only thing the United States, which is still a young country, has contributed culturally to the world is jazz.
Elongated improvisation.
It's tragic.
And Tony Bennett feels that Americans don't even appreciate the impact of jazz in popular culture.
He says 50 years from now, people will be uh bowing to Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker just like impressionist painters like Monet, who were starving in their day.
The Americans don't even know what they've come up with.
Whoa, no culture in the United States of America.
How about abortion?
We gave the world abortion, Tony.
And how about Hollywood?
We define movie making in this country.
We get chocolate-covered naked people on stage, and they get paid by the government for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Carol Finley, we've got we've got great art here.
We've got piss Christ.
This is uh Andre Serrano who submerged a crucifix.
What?
No, no, Maplethorpe did the whips and change things with all the different pictures.
No, this was Andre Serrano who submerged a uh crucifix in a jar of urine.
It was the greatest work of art.
Why, I don't know what Tony Bennett's talking about here.
Uh science?
The Germans?
Science?
How far do you want to take that?
All right, ladies and gentlemen, the other day, Pope Benedict came out and said, We are working too hard.
Pope Benedict came out, well, he said he might be working too hard.
What what?
What is your reaction?
He did say this, and the Pope went back, he's overworking his make and work too much.
And he quoted uh uh an old Pope from the 11th century.
I forget the name of the map, Pope Ellis, I'm not sure, but he said that this uh this previous Pope had said that all work all the time leads to cold heartedness.
And I read that, and I said, you know, I understand that.
If all you do is work, I mean, work is not leisure.
Uh now sometimes people who let's take work for me, just as an example.
I mean, look what I have to do when I work, I have to immerse myself in nothing but doom and gloom and pessimism.
I need a rigid set of boundaries, ladies.
I always almost have to go to work wearing virtual body armor in order to not be turned into a nattering nabob of pessimism and doom and gloom.
I can see where it could happen to people.
And then I see this story, and this is from um this is published on Sunday.
The rise of shrinking vacation syndrome.
In August, when much of the world is hard at work trying to do nothing, Jeff Hopkins and his wife Denise usually take a week to chase fish in Olympic National Park, a ferry ride, and two tanks of gas from Seattle, and they do it with their boat in tow.
But this year, their summer vacations dead.
Victim of $3 a gallon gasoline and job uncertainty.
This is our vacation, said Mr. Hopkins, loading up his drift boat for an evening of fishing in this city, just after getting off work at Boeing, where he's been employed for 15 years.
Even before toothpaste could clog an airport security line and a full tank of gas was considered an indulgence.
Americans had begun to sour on the traditional summer vacation.
They had.
What did I miss?
When did Americans begin to sour on the traditional?
Well, it's it's it's it's I don't know what it was in.
It's it's it's published in Seattle somewhere.
Americans have begun to sour on the traditional summer vacation, but this summer a number of surveys show that American workers who already take fewer vacations than people in nearly all industrial nations have pruned back their leisure days even more.
Shrinking vacation syndrome has gotten so bad that at least one major American company, the accounting firm Price Waterhouse Cooper's, has taken to shutting down its entire national operation twice a year to ensure that people stop working for about ten days over Christmas and five days or so around the 4th of July.
We wanted to create an environment where people could walk away and not worry about missing a meeting, a conference call, or 300 emails.
The heightened pace of American life, aided by the ever chattering electronic pocket companion, gets much of the blame for the inability of many people to take extended periods of forced sloth.
So that's one of the problems.
The idea that a vacation is sloth.
The idea that a vacation is wasteful.
People have been made to feel guilty taking vacations.
They have been made to feel like there's something wrong in doing that.
So they hop onto the excuse, gasoline's three bucks a gallon.
It's inconvenient to fly now.
They're targeting Gatorade instead of Muslims.
I'm not going to trust this airplane anymore.
I'm not going to get on this thing, bless so.
And now it's virtuous.
It's virtuous to not take as much vacation time.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, this has not affected me.
I am taking two days off this week to go play golf.
I have some invitations to play some of the finest golf courses in the uh in the country.
And I'm speaking to you not here from the context of guilt.
As I have no guilt about this.
But I know you people are under the impression I have been gone a lot lately.
And when I take two days here or three days there, I can read your emails.
You people, some of you people are not bashful at all.
I want a refund.
It says rush 24-7 on your website, and it's not 24-7, especially when you're not there.
I want a prorated refund.
So forth and so on.
Pardon me, I still have a little bit of a lingering uh uh phlegm in the throat hacking cough from the uh raging common coal virus that I successfully beat back Starling's uh Saturday night with Zycam or Sunday night with whatever it was.
At any rate, ladies and gentlemen, um what I decided to do this year vacation-wise, was to not take a week straight or two weeks straight, uh, as many professionals do.
I decided to do a two-day weekend, meaning a Thursday, Friday, or three-day, Thursday, Friday, Monday as I just did in Hawaii, uh, but at least have a presence here in every week, which I have uh I have tried to do.
There was one week, I forget, might have gone been gone one week earlier in the summer, uh uh not not quite sure.
Uh but these two days, then there'll be Labor Day weekend and so forth, and there's uh got a couple things in the fall.
I'm not taking it it's not a vacation.
That is a national holiday.
And Labor Day weekend.
I'm I'm going to see them.
I'm just gonna miss Monday.
What?
Everybody's nobody's gonna be around on Monday.
Here's another thing, folks, just so you know.
Uh being totally upfront and honest with you here.
Just so you know.
What are you laughing at in there?
Uh because I I he snurdily wants to know why I'm explaining it to people, and I'm explaining it to him because they complain.
You wouldn't believe the complaints.
You're never there anymore.
You always take time off.
Just when you come back and get going, then you slink away again.
And uh and so forth.
I'm just explaining it to you so that you will understand it, and I want you people to look at I have a vast connection with this audience.
One of the reasons this program is the biggest bar none is there is a connection between you all and me.
I don't hold anything back.
And uh and and I I like I said I don't have to justify just explaining to you.
In August, in our business, there aren't any ratings.
And if there are, they don't count because nobody pays any attention to them because there's no state of normalcy.
Nobody's at home, despite all this shrinking vacation syndrome business.
Um it's gotten back, some schools have started now and so forth, but I don't care.
They can start school August 1st, and no adult is gonna have a normal attitude till September hits.
August is summertime, no matter where the kids are.
In fact, if they're in school in August, it's celebration time.
Uh let's be honest.
Right, Dawn?
It is.
Absolutely I'm right about this.
I know this even though I don't have children.
So I just wanted to explain this to you, my friends.
There is a strategy to this.
There is a reason why uh I opt to take the time that I do.
Uh and of course, the uh the necessity to uh charge batteries and so forth.
Plus, let's face something else.
If I didn't take vacation, nothing huge ever would happen.
Because it only happens when I go away.
I've got a note here from our buddy in Seattle, a hutch.
Okay.
Says, hey, I'm from Seattle.
By the way, that was a New York Times story.
Uh Dateline Seattle.
I am from Seattle, and you can't get to the water on Saturdays for so much traffic pulling boats.
We're taking three vacations this summer, and we're as broke as everybody else.
Ha!
Take that.
The hutch.
It's just the New York Times trying to make people feel miserable.
Uh Greenland's glaciers have been shrinking for 100 years.
This is a Danish study suggesting the ice melt is not a recent phenomenon caused by global warming.
And I don't understand.
This is an editorial from yesterday in the New York Times.
I really Hillary Clinton's low profile.
It's a very short editorial.
And listen to the last paragraph of this.
Presuming she wins the primary, Mrs. Clinton will go up against a weak Republican candidate this fall.
Anything can happen in election, but there's a very good chance that she could coast all the way to November without being tested on any important issue.
Right now's a good time to make sure that does not happen.
I I actually think I don't think she's ever been tested on an issue is the bottom line.
She's entitled.
She's where she is because she suffered the indignities of living in Arkansas with a hayseed who was running around on her all over the place, then got to Washington.
She tried to take over but couldn't.
Lewinsky got there first, and she's been forever humiliated, and she's just entitled.
When is she ever come forward about anything that we can believe?
She's for health care reform.
We I think we believe that, but for the war against the war.
You know what I think this is?
I I think they're preparing to, you know, go net lament on her.
I I think the New York Times, which is wacko left, is mad at her on this war for the uh vote for the war business.
I I something about this.
Just just very get this.
You've we've heard of these stories before, but I thought we were through with them.
A Brighton, Massachusetts homeowner is in trouble with the city because an alle excuse me, an alleged break-in artist fell to his death early yesterday.
This is Sunday, uh, from a set of rickety exterior stairs attached to the man's two-story house.
This sounds like a perfect burglar alarm to me.
Put some horrible stairs out there, a perp comes in to rob you, and the stairs collapse, and the perp gets hurt.
The owner, whom the city didn't identify, will be cited for having an unsafe and dangerous structure at his two family home.
Said Lisa Timberlake, the uh spokesbabe for the inspectional services department.
Yep.
That staircase was not properly secured.
A man who said he owned a home, refused to give his name, told the Boston Herald that the intruder climbed the wrought iron spiral steps at 2 20 a.m.
The interloper was kicking in a door that led to the owner's entrance when the stairs gave way.
Interloper taken to St. Elizabeth's Medical Center after the collapse.
He was pronounced dead.
So the perp accidentally kills himself for trying to bash in somebody's back door.
The cops cite the hope owner, homeowner for a faulty staircase.
Now this has happened in California.
A lot of when I worked out there, this was common practice.
A guy was climbing on somebody's roof, the roof gave in, broke his back, he sued the homeowner and won.
What the hell's a break-in artist, by the way?
Break in artist?
There's it's a break-in art.
Yeah, alleged break-in artist.
Like a performance artist.
That's it, Tony Bennett.
See there, we've got we got break-in artists here.
Uh in in France and Italy, they're just called burglars.
And thieves, but here, break-in artists, Susan in Hampton, Virginia.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Oh, hi, Rush.
It is such a joy to speak with you.
My uncle will be jealous.
Um, I agree.
Uh, on the vacation issue with the Pope.
I think people are worked to death.
And uh in many cases, I'm not sure they know it.
My husband and I have a B and D. And I can't tell you how many times people uh make the reservoir.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Sorry.
In Rio Linda, when you tell them you got a B and B, they think Brandy and Benedictine.
And what you mean we have we may have that also.
Yes.
Yes.
And I can't tell you how many times that people check in and they say, Is there a place where I can work?
I need to work.
I need to work on my computer.
I say, Yes.
There's plenty of places you can work very comfortably.
And sure enough, they come down the next morning, and my husband and I play a game, and we say, So did you get all your work done?
Uh hopefully.
And they say, no.
And it every time they say no.
And and and I think when they get in a in a c place where they're comfortable and they can relax, they just do.
They just melt.
And we have seen it over and over again.
And I did not tell you a call screen or this, but I wanted to give you one other example of that, and that is my dad was a workaholic.
And I hope my voice isn't shaken too much because I'm so nervous.
No, no, no, no.
You're doing fine.
Okay.
And um anyway, he was a workaholic.
He was absolutely brilliant.
Yes.
And he worked for a uh corporate America for uh, you know, forty years, whatever.
Okay.
And he uh wanted to retire badly early.
Yeah.
His his boss loved him too much, would not let him.
And the man never had a vacation where he didn't get phone calls.
So what happened?
What's the upshot of all this?
He retired on a stretcher.
Uh-huh.
He had a big thing.
You know, one of the well, one of the characteristics, and this is uh this is something that I think uh female population of the country needs to come to grips with, and that is that most men, and there are exceptions to this, the girly guys and uh the the men that have been feminized and so forth.
I'm not talking about gays, I'm just talking the Alan all the time.
Uh you know, Michael Kinsley times.
I mean, the the men take their identity, their self-worth from their work, uh and from their careers.
And that's why it's it's tough to uh let it go.
Uh but you know, learning to appreciate leisure time.
I mean, if I do take two weeks, first week is filled with guilt.
Second week I finally get into enjoying it, but I'm ready to come back after ten days instead of the two weeks.
That's why I do two or three days at a time.
No guilt.
Get in, get it, get out, get it done.
Um I've just I've mastered the way to take leisure time and enjoy it.
Most people have it.
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