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Aug. 23, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 23, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hi, folks, welcome back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh cutting edge of societal evolution.
We're doing open line Friday on Wednesday today.
And Friday, taking the advice of the Pope not to work too hard.
So Open Line Friday on Wednesday means we go to the program, go to the phones rather.
The program is all yours.
Talk about whatever you want.
800-282-2882.
The email address rush at EIBnet.com, uh, is the email address.
Um, we, uh, uh, just learned here, not just learned, but it's, uh, fairly recently.
Dutch police arrested 12 passengers on a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for India, which was forced to turn back to Amsterdam's airport on Wednesday, uh, Police spokesman said that 12 people were arrested, declined to give further details due to the ongoing investigation.
They were not immediately available.
Cops weren't for uh uh comment, but uh it is said that the phones, the cell phones being carried by the twelve aroused suspicion.
Uh I, for one, uh ladies and gentlemen, am waiting on the names of the uh of the twelve.
All right, back down to this survivor story, a race between races in just a couple of weeks, the new season of Survivor will take twenty castaways to the Cook Islands, uh, the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
They will be split into four tribes, and they will compete against each other.
Uh the four tribes are these the African American tribe, the Asian American tribe, the Hispanic tribe, and the white tribe, noticeably absent here, the Native American tribe.
But I guess uh they had a full boat, uh so to speak, when they had um when they have twenty.
So you look at this and you say, okay, here we are.
We live in a society where we're not supposed to cause racial friction.
Uh we're we're we're we've been getting away from this, so we're all one.
We're all the same.
This is this is incredible.
Now we've got the survivor series, segregating contestants into tribes, not even groups.
We're calling them tribes.
Uh I don't know how many people still watch this show, I guess quite a few because it's uh still on the air.
Uh you in the you might cause riots on this show, uh, or in the country as a result of this show.
But here the here are the tribes, the African American tribe, the Asian American tribe, the Hispanic tribe, and a white tribe.
Now, if these four tribes just off the top of your head, who do you think has the advantage?
Who do you think here is going to win?
Think it's going to be the white tribe, uh, the Hispanic tribe, the African American tribe, or the Asian American tribe.
Uh we've been looking at this here amongst ourselves, and our our early money is going on the Hispanic tribe, providing they stay unified.
We don't know who makes up the his.
I mean, we got the names here of all these members of the tribes, but Hispanic encompasses a lot.
You could have a Cuban in there, you could have a Nicaraguan, you could have a Mexican or two, you could have uh any number.
And you know, if they start fighting for supremacy amongst themselves, uh that could lead to problems.
But our early money is on them anyway, because these people have shown a remarkable ability, ladies and gentlemen, to cross borders, boundaries.
They get anywhere they want to go.
They can do it without water for a long time.
They don't get apprehended, and they will do things other people won't do.
Uh so our money, early money is on the Hispanics.
The white tribe, I have to tell you, I don't have a lot of hope in the white tribe.
Um the Asian, the Asian American tribe probably will outsmart everybody, but will that help them uh in the in the ultimate survival uh contest?
Intelligence is one thing, but raw native understanding of the land and uh and so forth.
This is probably why the Native Americans were excluded, uh because they were at one uh with the land here, and they probably would have an unfair uh advantage.
Uh the African American tribe, tough to handicap on this one.
Uh uh you just it's it's uh uh you know uh there there are many characteristics here that you would think they give them the lead and the uh and the heads up uh uh in in terms of uh uh uh skill and athleticism and so forth.
Uh the Asians, as I say, the brainiacs of the bunch, the Hispanic tribe, they've they've probably shown the most survival characteristics of uh of any What are you shaking your head about for?
What are you uh though though Well uh well I don't know that CBS is gonna let them get away with that.
The um we were talking about the white tribe, we're speculating among ourselves that if the white tribe behaves as it historically has, they will bring along vials of diseases.
Uh they will end up oppressing the other groups, they will deny them uh benefits, uh deny them their property, steal it from them, uh and and you know, put them on some kind of a benefit program.
The white tribe put everybody else in some kind of benefit program, but the benefit program, of course, uh will not be enough.
Uh there will be no education, the white tribe will not allow any health care except for themselves, but that would be cheating.
Now, if CBS allows for them to cheat, then of course the white tribe's gonna win.
Um if if they allow oppression to take place, uh then there's then there's no question.
I mean the Well, the White Tribe, that's the point, white tribe does run CBS, but don't forget CBS is run by a bunch of white people with half guilt over the fact that they run things.
Um they might not want to win.
Uh uh the white tribe might just say to the Hispanics, the hell, you're not getting on the island in the first place.
Uh you're out of here.
Just try to keep them.
You never know where this is gonna go, ladies and gentlemen.
But besides it's incredible.
It is incredible.
A survival between races on uh on on CBS.
Uh here's Tony in Columbus, Ohio.
Hi, Tony, glad you called open line Friday on Wednesday.
Thank you, Rush.
First time uh caller.
Thank you, sir.
And uh I have listened for a while.
I am a liberal.
I want to say that, uh, but I do listen to both sides.
Uh I got a quick statement for you and a question.
I want to get right to my point.
Sure, go right ahead.
Okay.
Um, my statement is just maybe, just maybe they're doing this to show that all races would be equal in this case.
You're not talking about different nations.
Like, Africa from Asia.
Tony, but you can't say that because three of these races are gonna lose and one of them is gonna win.
One of them is gonna be proclaimed the winner of the survivor contest.
One's by by simple virtue of that is gonna be considered to be best and better than all the others.
Sure, but that's that's one way to look at it.
But you never know.
You never know.
They might get down to four people.
And there might be one from each race left.
You don't know what's going to happen.
You never know.
The the African American might be.
Yes, we do.
It's set up as a survival.
I don't want to know.
Survivor between the races.
Sure.
Well, I want to argue with you about that point.
It's just your view of looking at the world.
And that's that's okay.
That's the way you see it.
That's the way you see it's breaking down as well.
No, it's not how you see it.
No, no, no.
That's exactly it's not how you see it.
Okay.
You know, that's that's obfuscation.
It is what it is.
If you don't have the guts to see what it is, and you make it something else, then you're fooling yourself.
You're learning to yourself.
It is what it is.
You just made it something right here.
When you said right before your first break, right before your break, you said who's who has the disadvantage uh for swimming.
You know, how can you say any team has disadvantaged swimming?
Which which team do you think would be the better swimmers?
Best swimmers are probably.
If you just let me answer the question, I'd be happy to tell you.
Okay, who's gonna be the best swimmers in this group?
Uh put the African American tribe, Asian American tribe, Hispanics.
Um, no, I'm looking at the Olympics, you'd have to say the white tribe be the best swimmers.
The Olympics.
You're just gonna be able to do that.
Nice.
Good one.
You're just looking at world-class athletes.
I'm an African American man.
You know, mid middle mid-age, you know, I'm 35 years old.
Well, now wait a second.
Wait a second, wait wait, wait a second, though.
I have I have if if the Hispanic tribe has a Cuban in it, those people swim 90 miles.
You know, sometimes for freedom.
So they you know, you you just never know.
That's why you gotta watch the show.
Right.
So well good we I like the way you play around with that.
And you and you and what you do is you tease the racism card throughout this nation right now.
And instead of trying to elevate it and say, you know what?
And say, you know, hold on.
I am playing the racism card.
I'm telling you what a major network is doing in its prime time schedule.
They're pitting races against each other in this stupid survivor format, and you tell me I'm being racist.
But you don't know what they're doing.
They could say, look at the inn at the biggest.
You know what?
They're all stereotypes.
You never know.
Tony, I've got the story from CBS News right here.
The story you just read is that they're doing the show, but you don't know why they're doing the show.
I do.
The guy was on the early show on CBS explaining the whole thing.
I haven't read the whole story to you.
I expect you to believe that I'm telling you the truth about the I tell you what, I will put this story up on my website.
I'll link to it at Rush Limbaugh.com.
It's from the CBS News website, CBS News.com.
And they go all through and they address the potential controversy.
Jeff Probst, the host of the show, was on their early show today or recently and described the whole thing.
It is what it is.
The potential controversy is that they separated the races.
There is no one ever said that they expect any particular race to do better than the other.
You presume that they separate the race.
Tony, that's what we made that leap.
Tony, you the show is about one tribe being better than the other three.
It is a contest.
It is a competition.
You know what's hilarious?
It is that's precisely the purpose and the format.
You say nobody talks about anybody being the best.
That's what's so interesting about this.
They're pitting races against races to see who's better as a race at surviving anybody else.
It's not individuals, Tony, it's races.
Wow.
Well, good try.
You know, I like I like the way you did that.
But you you begin one last thing.
At the end.
At the end, when there's when there's a winner.
Look at you.
See, that's okay.
You can laugh at it.
And they'll see my point and be closed-minded.
They all don't even think that I have a point.
But that's okay.
This is incredible.
You the show.
Tony, I love you.
You are so great to illustrate to this audience what liberals are like.
Here we got the show that's going to be committing all the offense.
You are waiting for it to end for me to comment on who the winner is for there to be any racism involved in that.
I am the racist.
I didn't conceive of this.
Imagine if I had.
Imagine if this were an EIB production that CBS bought.
Or better yet.
You imagine if this were an EIB production at ESPN bought and co-produced with CBS.
Now, I want to address one thing.
I heard you, Tony.
You accused me in a sly way of being racist by making comments about who would win the swimming competition.
I know what you're saying.
You were saying I'm being racist.
You're saying I'm being racist because I'm saying blacks can't swim.
I have here a story, and I read this recently from uh Health Day News.
One of the largest studies of its kind confirms that young blacks, especially males, are much more likely to drown in pools than whites.
In fact, almost half of all recorded drowning deaths among people aged five to twenty-four are among blacks, according to the study in the April issue of the American Journal of Public Opinion.
Blacks are especially likely to drown in motel and hotel pools, while whites tend to drown in private pools.
Now I mentioned the swimming comment only because since this is known, this is not going to be fair if there's a lot of water competition in this.
It just isn't.
It is not a racial or racist comment at all.
It's an example of how we're so tightly wound.
And I, by no stretch, am the first person to reference these studies and these uh and these facts.
Anyway, Tony, I'm glad you called.
I'm glad you held on.
We got to run here quick timeout.
We'll be back with more right after this.
They would.
All right, the Survivor Show is gonna happen in the very remote Cook Islands in the South Pacific.
And uh, you know, it's it's dangerous when you take white people to places that uh you know largely uh have been un uh inhabited by man, uh like I say, they bring disease, uh racism, sexism, bigotry, um uh homophobia.
Oh, Lord help us if there's some gay people in these other tribes.
Uh and and uh another thing, nobody's thinking about the uh the indigenous species, the uh uh the the animals and the plants and so forth that live there on the Cook Islands.
You know what white people do.
They're gonna just destroy them.
Uh come in and not care, just probably build a housing development for themselves before they even start the uh uh competition.
They won't even be worried about zoning laws.
They'll just uh run roughshod over uh over everybody.
And uh and then and then they'll hire the Hispanic tribe to clean the place and do the do yard work and and uh it won't pay them much, but the Hispanics they'll they'll they'll think they're outsmarting them by taking the money anyway.
Um it it's you know I have a I don't know what's gonna happen to the show, but I th I've I've been told that every episode except the finale is already in the can.
And they'll take the finale, film the finale at some uh at some later date.
Uh swear all these tribes to secrecy, and that's thinking which of these tribes is best at keeping a secret.
Um, you know, white people can't keep a secret to save their lives.
Uh I'd say the Asians are probably the best at espionage keeping secrets and so forth.
Uh everybody else wears their hearts on their sleeve, these other tribes.
Um, but I'm just wondering if it's going to end up as it starts out.
I just wonder if what's going to happen here is that these tribes are going to end up being mixed before this thing is all over to avoid this type controversy.
In other words, the white people on the verge of winning it.
They're this close, but late in the show, a defector from the African American tribe shows up and pulls them over the top.
Something like that.
You never know what these programs are.
Uh and it's it's hard to predict.
Uh moving on to uh other uh uh lifestyle items.
An interesting headline here today in the Washington Times nearly half of women fear life as a bag lady.
Nearly half of women fear life as a bag lady.
I'm not making this up.
They may have money in their purses and a decent salary, but many women fear they'll lose their income and end up a bag lady forgotten and destitute.
A startling 90% of women say they feel financially insecure, according to a survey of almost 1,925 women released yesterday by Alliance, a Minnesota-based life insurance company.
Almost half of women are troubled by a tremendous fear of becoming a bag lady.
Forty-six percent of women overall, 48% of those with an annual income of more than 100,000 dollars think they're going to become bag ladies.
An additional 57% are sorry that they had not learned more about money matters in Haskell.
Now, such concerns foster an array of behaviors and thoughts.
Women, for example, are twice as likely as men, 18% to 9%, to set aside a secret stash of money, the study found.
Roughly the same number counseled their daughters to do the same.
And the feminine thrill of shopping took a back seat to practicality.
Two-thirds of these babes said the best thing about having money is the feeling of security it brought them rather than the buying power or the status.
They want to know they can handle what might lie in front of them, said Ken Dickwald, uh gerontologist who consulted on the project.
They want to know how they can handle what might lie in front of them.
Says Ken Dickwald, D.Y.C. Maybe Princess Dykewald.
Uh either way, it's interesting.
Women have made substantial financial progress, the study said, noting that their median income has increased 60% in the past 30 years.
They're expected to control 60% of U.S. wealth by 2010.
You know what's they control it all now.
They just half of them don't know it.
Half of all stock market investors are also women.
Are American men unnerved by financially independent women, not likely, according to related alliance poll, more than 90% found uh independent women and that quality to be sexy.
Well, uh it makes total sense to me.
Self feeders are always a much safer investment.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, there's just there's there's no question about it.
I mean, history shows it.
Recent, decent, long, whatever, ancient self-feeders are just you uh you it's just cleaner.
It's just cleaner.
But I but see the problem, even even self-feeders think they're gonna end up as bag ladies.
Where does that come from?
I mean, these are educated, achieved women who have, in some cases, a hundred thousand dollars annual income, and they still worry they're gonna become bag ladies.
I guess it's just the uh result of centuries of male oppression and fear that have yet to evolutionize out.
Yeah, it's right.
Real life, Rush Limboa on open line Friday on Wednesday.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Some email people say, well, the reason half of the women in America no, it's more than that.
Uh-huh.
Ninety percent of the women in America feel financially insecure, and nearly half of women fear life as a bag lady.
Uh, emailers suggest it's partly because Oprah is telling them that, that they're only one paycheck away from utter disaster every day, and that the Oprah has been telling them this for uh for many, many, uh many, many moons.
Uh also, ladies and gentlemen, back to the Survivor Show on CBS.
Uh uh, something just struck me.
You know, we've we had a couple of great sociologists comment on a factor we've not mentioned.
Uh one uh one is um uh uh Leonard Jeffries, where did Leonard Jeffries teach?
Uh SUNY is a State University of New York somewhere, right?
Yeah, in New York City somewhere, Leonard Jeffries divided people into ice people to sun people, and he said the ice people are white people, they just don't do well in the heat.
And then the uh other famous sociologist, Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker, uh, also made the comment that blacks and Latinos do better in the heat.
Uh, which spells doom for the white tribe uh and perhaps even the Asian tribe, uh Asian American tribe, uh, over in the Cook Islands.
Uh, in the South Pacific.
Uh, let's see, what is this?
North Miami.
This is uh what April twilight, two thousand four.
North Miami Police Department dropped a swimming requirement for applicants.
The North Miami Police Department dropped a swimming uh requirement for applicants, saying they need new officers and they want to encourage blacks to sign.
Oh, I remember this caused all kinds of hell down there.
Oh, this went nuclear down there.
North Miami police say they're dropping the swimming requirement for a year.
They say few departments require swimming, and their officers rarely save people in the water anyway.
Our swimming requirement may give the false perception that we are not serious uh in our efforts to hire Haitian police applicants, said police chief Gwendolyn Boyd Savage.
Uh Boyd Savage is black.
They they've been intimidated because they don't swim.
Very few of them swim, said the mayor, who is Haitian American.
Uh they have the ability to learn to swim, but many of them are not that great of a swimmer as the standard current requirement that we have.
We want to bring them in anyway, give them a chance to learn, so we're dropping the uh swimming requirement.
So uh who was that from Columbus?
What was that guy's name from?
Tony.
Tony, I mean, it's all over the place out there.
I'm just the messenger.
Yeah, I'm the I'm the bad guy.
Look at this.
I just saw this headline on CNN.
One third of world lacks drinkable water.
One third of the world's population lacks drinkable water.
Now, does that not beg a question?
How then is one third of the world's population still alive?
If one third of the world's population lacks drinkable water, which as we know is a necessity of life, how In the world are they still living and breathing?
Well, obviously it isn't true.
But that doesn't matter.
We'll be shipping bottled water to one third of the world's population in mere moments.
Jerry in Staten Island.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Good day, Rush.
I have uh an open line Friday question for you.
Yeah.
I'm amazed at the amount of material you have to go through daily to make your stacks of stuff.
I mean, I'm sure the couple of dozen pages you have in front of you is distilled from maybe fifty or sixty.
So I was wondering if uh, you know, even you comment on how after the program is done your show prep doesn't end.
Uh could you go through your day like yesterday you say uh and you know, how you start, how many people help, that sort of thing.
Sure.
Uh I'll be glad to.
I have uh I have myself uh you know, I used to do this show reading three to five newspapers a day.
Uh before the internet blew up and expanded in Sacramento, I I prepared the program on three newspapers, the uh Sacramento B, the San Francisco Chronicle, and uh and USA Today.
And that's all it took.
That's all it took to stay more informed than anybody.
And I I I read books and so forth.
Uh got to New York and started this in 1988, and of course the New York newspapers, the tabloids got thrown in the mix uh when the internet hit, simply became impossible for one man, no matter how special, uh, to be able to read, research, and learn everything that's out there uh and and still have uh time for other things uh during the day.
So what has happened is that I I have uh I have my own specific areas of the internet that I continually look at and research with any number of input sources, RSS readers, uh bookmarked and websites that I know are going to be productive and good.
Uh there are a couple people, one in New York and one here, who have been assigned their own areas of the website to pursue uh and peruse, and they do that, and they do that every morning.
Uh and during the morning they are sending this stuff to my printer.
And at about 11, 1045, I stop what I'm doing uh and go through this entire stack uh and separate them into various stacks based on interest and based on yeah, I still want to do that, and I don't care about that anymore, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Um it's probably uh well, and look, there are there are uh I I I constantly search email.
I've I've got, you know, people that listen to this program send things in all the time from their local communities and and uh and so forth.
It really is a flood of things that comes in.
I it it's it's uh it's a it's a real editing process.
I mean it it it come in during the program.
The program is constantly being researched and prepped, even when it's being performed or executed.
But I'd say the total number of pages every when I let me just when when I finish the program, the first thing I do uh is after everything I else I have to do after the program, I'll spend an hour in front of the computer to see what's happened that I may have missed.
And I'll print it to the computer so I'll have it the next day when I show up.
Uh I get home, I don't watch television anymore.
It doesn't help.
It's not productive.
What I see on television, I've already talked about.
Most of it.
The opinions, the arguments in these cable shows, uh they're not that helpful anymore.
They used to be.
It used to be a staple to have to watch Crossfire.
Used to have to watch the McGlocklin group, used to have to watch all these.
Now that's where I take the break.
I do not.
Uh and and uh all night long.
I mean, it's the I always say, uh Jerry, that life is show prep.
It's not just what's on the internet.
Anything that happens to me out there while in the daily uh uh activity is subject to being talked about, used in some fashion on the on the program.
I probably between 1030 and midnight go back to the internet because some of the early morning papers are already out on the website and on their websites at that point.
Uh but but news is is happening worldwide and it's being posted worldwide around the clock.
Uh I guess the total number of pages uh every day that that I start with at 1045 would be close to 150 to 200.
Type, you know, eight and a half by eleven fully printed pages.
And then I synthesize that like I the the stacks today probably I've got 75 pages here.
I'll probably get to 30 of them if I'm lucky.
Does that help or is Jerry gone?
No, I'm still here.
I was just uh listening, and that's I I couldn't even begin to even pay read 10 pages uh at air speed.
Well, people people um uh I was just asked the other day, I was uh uh I forget where I was, but somebody said, How in the world do you have the time to do all this?
Because every time I listen, it seems like there's you know more about what's going on than anybody else does.
And I have all my answer to it is you remember when you were in college, and they told you if you just study a little every day, you'll never have to cram.
Well, this is probably the closest example of that in practice that I've ever done.
But see, I don't consider this studying.
I love doing this.
I don't even consider it work.
Um I I just I I and plus I'll tell you something else that drives me, Jarr, and and it's it's uh I don't care if there would be another if there'd be no other competitive shows out there, or if there are were as many as there are, are as many as there are.
It's not trying to stay ahead of the competition.
It's not trying because I don't even think of them, and I I don't mean this to sound arrogant, folks.
Please don't misunderstand.
In an attitudinal sense, at twelve noon, there is nothing else but this show.
That's how I come in.
You haven't heard anything, you don't know anything, you haven't I mean, it just is the attitude I bring in here.
Uh and at the same time, the whole point is meeting and surpassing your expectations, not staying ahead of somebody else doing a show out there because I don't listen to them, so I don't really know what they're doing.
I'm I do that consciously.
I purposely don't listen to anybody else.
I haven't listened to the radio for any length of time other than music, and I can't tell you how many years.
It may be decades.
Uh and that's that's on purpose as well.
So to me, we've just established a pattern.
These people that that uh that help find things out there have been with me for a long time.
They know what'll interest me and what won't.
Uh and so it's uh the editing process is made simpler in uh in that regard.
Uh it's I'm it may seem tough or challenging to other people, but if it's just it's what we here do, and we like it, and it it's it it's not considered to be work uh in any stretch of the imagination.
It's uh you know, it's just people have different hungers and thirsts for different things, minds being informed, uh and conversant.
Uh and you know, I it it's funny I have uh so many people uh that that will send me things, and I have to catch myself because sometimes I'm insulted.
People who send me things as though they think I haven't seen it when I saw it hours ago.
Uh and and so I I have to I really have to because they're just trying to help, so I bite my tongue, and I never chastise, and I never say anything to discourage them.
But uh uh a lesser person would take it personally.
A lesser person will say, These people think I'm an idiot that I haven't seen this.
Uh oh it but it all works.
It's uh it's a uh it's a well-oiled machine.
There are no daily instructions.
We never have a meeting here.
That's one of the things that was so difficult for me doing television.
That 22-minute TV show took almost two hours of meetings every day.
And I've never had one meeting to do this program.
There hasn't been one.
I hate meetings.
Um it's a great luxury to not have to sit down with somebody and say, okay, here's what I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna do it in this order.
Uh, because that takes away the spontaneity.
I mean, this is purely off the cuff, whatever's on the stack that interests me at that moment.
There's stuff I passed on in the first hour today that I'll get to in the next hour uh that I couldn't have cared less about in the first hour.
For some reason I may be interested in it next hour.
You never know.
It's just what I care about and what I'm interested in at the moment is the guidepost.
Thanks for the question.
I appreciate that.
Uh we'll take a brief time out.
We'll be back and continue here in just a second.
Stay with us.
Here's something I totally didn't factor in.
When wondering about the upcoming competition on the next survivor, the battle of the racial tribes.
Yeah, this students, this is a story out of Beijing.
Students at a sports school in Northeastern China were caught using performance enhancing drugs in a doping raid, state media said Wednesday.
It's the latest scandal to hit China's track and field athletes.
The steroid angle.
I mean, is CBS testing these people in these various tribes for uh for steroids.
Anyway, here's uh here's John in San Angelo, Texas.
Got to be going there to get there.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hi, Rush.
I was wondering uh have you ever met Tiger or got to play uh golf with him.
I've never played golf with him.
I've met Tiger Woods one time.
It was out at the ATT pro am, and it was on the uh putting green before I teed off.
Uh he was two groups behind me, uh uh, but he was on the putting green up there, uh it was it, spy glass, and he was uh to time with Butch Harmon and uh his caddy Steve Williams.
And I I looked up and I said, you know, I may never ever run into this guy.
It was 2001.
I may never ever run into this guy again.
So uh and I looked at him, and there was nobody, nobody daring get anywhere near him.
And I said, Well, I'm gonna give it a shot.
So I walked up and I approached him, and uh Butch Harmon stopped what he was doing and gave me the big stare.
Steve Williams stopped what he was doing, gave me the big stare.
Tiger looked up, stop what he was doing, gave me the big stare.
And I can understand.
You don't know who would what people are gonna want.
And I walked up and said, Tiger, do you have a minute?
He said, Yes.
And I said, I just have to tell you I am I I uh I'm I had uh opportunity, I'm glad I have the opportunity to tell you how impressed I was, not with the way you played last year in 2000, but the way you dealt with the performance pressure of the expectations everybody had of you, including yourself.
And the brightest smile came over his face.
Thank you, Rush.
Thank you, Rush.
And I said, I ran into Charles Barclay uh a couple weeks ago at the Super Bowl.
I was at a Super Bowl party and golf tournament in Las Vegas, and Barclay was there.
It is his uh face brightened even more.
And I I said, I told Charles to tell you this the next time he saw you, but I don't know Charles is not very dependable.
Uh and Charles forgets things, and sometimes Charles makes things up.
And he started laughing big time.
Uh, and I just I just wanted to tell you that because I was blown away by it.
I said, just your age and everything to handle the performance pressure of everything you do being on television the way you compete.
I was just blown away by it.
I walked away and uh and that was that.
And as I was walking away, everybody else, that's I noticed everybody else was staring at putting green.
Had been watching what was going on, because I guess approaching Tiger is not something that you do if you don't know him even back then.
But I I found him just to be as as uh as as nice a guy as possible.
I don't uh what Barclay was telling me that uh when they get together that he's just down-to-earth, friendly, nice guy.
They have a great time hanging out.
Of course, I can't imagine Barclay not having a great time wherever he hangs out and with whoever.
Uh, but I I I think um I don't I I didn't detect any uh arrogance or anything of the of the sort.
I I think I think he's a uh a special and unique individual in uh not just the athleticism that he uh that he possesses and the talent that he has, but he's uh he's clearly uh uh well-rounded and deep.
Uh and I I think he's um just very solid guy.
I'm I I'd love to play golf with him just to see it.
Uh everybody, now you those of you who don't play golf, I know when we start talking about it, you start shouting, stick to the issues and so forth.
But those of you who do play golf, you've probably heard this said about people who've played with it.
I I've I know Marvin Shankin, my buddy at Cigar Aficionado played a practice round at one of the Buick tournaments in uh in Mont Bloc, Michigan not long ago, and he told me, and everybody else says there's just something about Tiger Woods golf ball when he swings the ball swings the club.
The way they the way it sounds, the way it it it the ball flight, there's just something different.
And we're not talking cosmically here.
It's just something about his swing, his swing speed and so forth, that the uh the ball just looks different than everybody else's.
Sounds different and so forth.
I I would just I'd love to see somebody hit a 240-yard four-iron, like he did uh in the PGA.
I'd love to see somebody hit a 275-yard five wood.
I'd just love to see what that looks like.
Maybe someday.
Who knows?
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