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Nov. 17, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 17, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, don't sound so excited in there.
Okay, Rush, time to start.
That's the cue I get.
You people never hear it.
Okay, let's go.
Okay, well, let's go.
It's Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
And this is going to be a doozy.
This is going to be a good lifestyle section alone today.
Could be the entire program, ladies and gentlemen.
It won't be, but it could be.
All right.
Let me give you the telephone number.
It's 800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
And on Friday, we change it up a bit.
Monday through Thursday, callers are only allowed to talk about things I care about.
I'm not going to sit here and be bored.
On Friday, I'll do that to extend total freedom to people on the phone.
So we go to the phones.
The program is all yours.
You have to look at this show as though I am a benevolent dictator.
Nobody has the right to speak unless I grant it, and nobody has the right to be heard.
And so it's always fun.
Again, 800-282-2882.
Folks, I had the most amazing, Wednesday night and most amazing day and a half in Washington.
I want to tell you about as much of it as possible.
Last night was the Rush to Excellence tour at the Warner Theater in Washington.
It was packed.
Beautiful place, 2,000 people.
The proceeds for the affair did not go to me.
I, contrary to all others in this business, take no honoraria when I make any speech.
And when I make a speech, I pay my own expenses to go there and get back, and I don't accept any honorarium.
All the proceeds went to the Fisher's House or the Fisher Houses.
Now, the Fisher houses are sort of like the Ronald McDonald houses for injured military personnel.
They were started by a great man named Zach Fisher, who I got to know during my time with the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Zach Fisher and his brother were prominent in New York and devoted almost all of their charitable giving to the United States military, Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, heavily involved in the USS Intrepid Air and Space Museum in New York.
And they've built something like 32 of these houses, and they are to accommodate family members of soldiers and military personnel who are wounded in action anywhere, predominantly now Iraq and Afghanistan.
So on, I guess yesterday morning, I got up and had a visit to the fishes on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and went to the house to see it.
And they're just gorgeous houses.
They are just stunningly gorgeous.
And they've got lots of bedrooms.
And sometimes people are in these houses for three, four, six months at a time.
May go back home for a weekend or something, take care of local affairs, but they stay there while their family members are recuperating in the hospital.
Some of the recuperating soldiers also stay in these houses.
After a quick tour of the house, it was up to the Walter Reed Army Hospital itself for a visit to the wing where amputees are undergoing rehabilitation, both occupational rehab and therapeutic rehab.
And folks, I tell you, this is my first time, and these people are These men and women that are in the United States Armed Forces, and I've always known this, but they're just a different breed.
They are such a cut above.
I walked in there and just my first glance around, I got a lump in my throat.
And I am not exaggerating.
I walked in that room, and we had about five or six in our group.
And here are people who have lost both legs above the knee, one leg and one arm, shrapnel wounds all over their bodies.
And every darn one of them was smiling.
And they were working hard to try to get back to, in fact, most of them, I would go out and talk to them, and I said, when do you get out?
Where do you live?
Where do you want to go?
Most of them want to re-enlist.
Not for combat, but they want to re-enlist for communications or something.
They want to stay in the U.S. military.
And these people anywhere from late teens to mid-20s, and they were all just smiling.
And I asked every one of them I talked to, have you got what you need?
And they'd looked at me and kind of surprised, oh, yes.
Yes, sir.
We have everything that we need.
They were, many of them, listeners of this program and their family members.
It was really, as I walked in there and I almost felt unworthy to go in this room.
And I feel that more and more when I'm around people, veterans, combat in the U.S. Armed Forces.
I felt like I'm not good enough to be in this room.
And these people have, I mean, lost significant parts of their bodies defending the country and protecting the country and performing their orders and missions.
And to watch them all smiling and laughing and going about their work was just, it was beyond touching.
Now, we drove over there from the Fisher house and we got to the medical center itself.
And it was a pretty long hike from the front door to this wing.
It was in one of the far quadrants of the building.
And we got right up to where we're supposed to be, and then they put a stop on us.
Our little entourage, I said, hold on, hang on just a second.
And they told us that they had to go into the amputation therapy room, rehab room, to make sure everything was okay in there and they're ready for visitors and so on.
Just be five minutes or so.
So we hung around.
We loitered and talked to people outside in the halls and then finally got to go.
I had to go in.
So I went in and I experienced all that I just shared with you.
And when I got, we got near the end of the tour of the people that I spoke to, and I probably spoke to 10 or 12.
There were maybe 20 people in there undergoing rehab.
And they're in there all day.
They're really running in shifts.
And this one woman whose husband was sitting on a bed, he had lost both of his legs.
He was lost both his legs just below his waist.
And he's sitting on the bed and he's working on upper body exercises.
And he got a big smile on his face too.
And his wife comes up to me and says, Mr. Limbaugh, my husband would like to meet you and tell you something.
So I walked over and he said, I wish you could have been here five minutes earlier.
I said, why?
He said, because John Kerry was here.
And I said, well, no wonder they held us outside in a holding pattern for five minutes because Kerry was wandering around in there.
And I wish they hadn't held us out.
That would have been cool.
So I asked the guy, well, did Kerry say anything to you?
He said, no.
I think he just walked around.
He might have said a couple words to a couple people.
He just walked around and looked and left.
And the guy, the soldier, said to me, I wish he would have said something to me because I wanted to say to him, Senator, I'm sorry.
I'm too stupid to understand what you just said.
And everybody just got this.
Everybody just laughed.
It's the last thing you expect to happen in a place like this.
But it was, you talk about inspirational and motivational and to talk about, I mentioned this last night on stage at the Warner Theater.
Anytime I start getting down in the dumps, and it all happens, all of us, you just think about what I saw in Afghanistan.
I think about what I saw yesterday, and it tends to put, I know everything's relative, and when people get depressed, there are reasons for it.
And you can't live everybody else's life in comparison to your own or live your life in comparison to theirs, but still it helps put it in perspective.
But it was just, I think we're there for 45 minutes or an hour, and it was one of the most meaningful periods of time that I have ever spent.
I asked him, I said, does it bother you when people come in here?
Do you feel like you're sort of in a circus and people wandering around?
No, no, we love people coming in here.
We love to have people come in here because some of them are there for six months.
Some of them are in hospital beds that long before they can get out and go to places like the Fisher House or be discharged back to their homes.
And they were for all over the country, from San Antonio, from Los Angeles, and Chicago, Buffalo, just all over the place.
And they're just, I guess I'm overdoing this and saying it so often, but I couldn't get over their attitudes and their happiness and their optimism.
It was truly a learning exercise for me.
I'm just sorry that we missed Senator Kerry.
But I guess people at Walter Reed think this is not the place for that to happen.
So another day and another time.
As to the performance last night, I think it went close to two hours, and it was just a hoot.
I had such a great time.
And I have to tell you, I received one of the most lump in my throat introductions from Chris Corr of WMAL that I can remember receiving from anybody.
Now, a lot of people have introduced me to places and they've done great jobs.
And I don't mean to slight anybody here, but it just had me open-mouthed.
Well, we've got the audio.
We're going through it now.
They said we want to play some excerpts of the thing.
We will have the audio of the whole show when we update the website later this afternoon for members.
And we also videotaped it.
I'll take a look at that before I decide to release it.
Also, their morning, too, Fred team was out there.
Fred Grandy and his partner were out there that's part of a Troika, but Chris did the actual introduction to me.
And there was a fourth WMAL host backstage who was not part of the introduction to me, Jerry Klein.
He's the pet liberal at WMAL, calls himself that.
So I thought, well, hell, his side won the election.
He's been slighted here.
So I figured it was time to, you know, when I got out there, did a couple of things.
I brought him out to be introduced too, because in this new spirited bipartisanship and getting along, I wanted Jerry to participate too.
And he works there.
He's pet liberal.
It's got to be tough for him, even though his side won.
But everybody at WMAL did a bang-up job.
It was just fabulous.
I had dinner at the Vice President's home on Wednesday night when I arrived, dinner for about 50 there.
And I went over to the White House yesterday morning before going to the Fisher House and had a little session with a friend there who used to work at a think tank and Karl Rove in Karl Rove's office.
And that was interesting, to say the least.
What?
Yeah, it was Karl Rove's office in the, well, it's in the West Wing, the White House.
Carl Rose, yeah, went in there and was in there about an hour and a half, and then I had to go over to the fishery house.
It was, oh, and had lunch.
I stayed at the four seasons under an assumed name.
I always do that.
And I had lunch yesterday with Laura Ingram, and we're sitting there.
And I'm looking over the, not too many people in there.
It was one o'clock, and I'm looking at it.
I said, is that Mac McClarty over there?
And she said, yeah, that's Mac McClarty.
Mac McCarty, the first, what was he, chief of staff for Clinton?
Mac the knife, Mac Mac the Fixer.
So he gets up.
He's in there for about 30 minutes more eating his lunch and finishing.
And as he gets up to leave, he glances over and waves and keeps walking and then stops dead in his tracks and make a right turn and head over to our table.
He comes over, says hello to Ingram, and then looks at me, says, Arn, you're that guy that was in that Harry Thomason show that week.
He was talking about my appearance in Hearts of Fire way back in the early 90s.
Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth Thomason, the husband and wife team that created the show.
It was with Marky Post and John Ritter, and I was in it for a whole week.
It took a week to rehearse it and film it.
I said, yeah, that's me.
I'm the guy that was in Harry Thomason's show.
Anyway, a little long hair to segment.
A quick timeout, ladies, who will be back.
We will continue in mere moments.
Stay with us.
I just got an email from a friend.
Rush.
Bo Schembeckler dies.
Will inspire Michigan win versus Ohio State Saturday.
Well, I guess he died just in time then.
How about this OJ business, ladies, this book and the literal, what would you say?
There's hysteria over this.
You know, the people that I find interesting about this, the people that are the most outraged about the OJ book and what it means for our culture are the very people themselves who have contributed to the rot in our culture.
It's just, hey, he was acquitted.
The jury spoke.
We'll have more on this as the program unfolds.
I should also mention last night, ladies and gentlemen, there's always a little reception backstage before these Rush to Excellence performances begin.
And there were all kinds of people last night.
And I'm in the line.
People come up, say hello.
We pose for pictures.
And by halfway through, here come Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele of Maryland.
And it was so great to meet him.
He was just, he was dignified.
He's just such a presence.
He ran such a great campaign.
It was such a disappointing loss.
And he stayed for the show.
And I happen to remember about, I guess, 10 or 20 minutes in.
I said, by the way, I had the chance to meet Lieutenant Governor Steele.
He's here tonight.
And the place erupted.
So he stood up and accepted his accolades.
Place just erupted.
Evidently it was tremendous atmosphere.
A lot of energy last night.
All right.
I predicted to you, ladies and gentlemen, that the economic news would all of a sudden become rosy and wonderful.
Here we go from Janine Aversa from ALAP.
Consumer confidence climbed to a two-month high, two-month high now, as good jobs, climate, lower fuel bills, and the outcome of the midterm elections brightened people's feelings about the economy and their own financial fortunes.
The election is a week over, and we now have a little over a week over, and we have an AP story out claiming that you are enthusiastic now.
You're feeling better about your.
I almost had this exact quote in a program earlier this week.
People are going to be, it's going to be reported that people now, oh, wow, it's really great out there.
The Democrats won.
And, well, housing starts at a six-year low today, but you have to dig deep to find that story.
But the housing starts, they haven't had a chance to rebound yet from the Democrat victory.
But Consumer Conference, why that was, you could sample that on Wednesday.
Folks, this John Edwards situation at Walmart, there is something seriously wrong with this man, and I have known that there is something seriously wrong with this man for as long as he has been in public.
There is a there, this guy has an image and an aura that follows him around that is as phony as a $3 bill.
This story, he outsources his Christmas shopping.
He has a volunteer go into a Walmart in North Carolina to get one of these PlayStation 3 things.
How about the hysteria over that?
Hell, people are being robbed standing in line.
People are being held up after they get their PlayStation 3.
Anyway, here's Edwards.
He sends in this volunteer to get this PlayStation 3.
He's giving speeches all over the country.
The minimum wage got to go up, and he used a volunteer.
He wouldn't even pay somebody a minimum wage to go and stand in line.
And then he had to call Walmart and wanted to go to the front of the line, want to have his volunteer go to the front of the line.
But the real thing about this, and Walmart issued a statement.
I think they've pulled the statement.
But Walmart, they said in their release, on the same day Edwards was criticizing the company at a conference call with union-backed activists, the volunteer staff member had asked a Raleigh, North Carolina electronics department manager to obtain a PlayStation 3 for the ex-senator's family.
And on the call, the conference call, talking to these union guys, Edwards repeated a story about his son, Jack.
We're talking six-year-old son here.
His son, Jack, disapproving of a classmate buying sneakers at Walmart.
There is no six-year-old that buys anything anywhere.
The parents do.
But what is the point of this story?
If a six-year-old can figure it out, America can definitely figure this out, Edwards said, saying that Walmart's not a place to go shop.
Walmart's done more for average Americans than the Democratic Party in all its years.
But this is, folks, there's two things.
Either he's, if this story is true, if a six-year-old Edwards kid is berating friends because they get stuff from Walmart, that's pathological.
Can you imagine what's going on in the Edwards house?
How does the kid know what Walmart is?
And how does he learn to make fun of people who go there, if not for his parents?
He's been taught to hate this kid.
If it's not true, if Edwards just made this up, then we have serious problems here.
And I don't, I'm not convinced which side of this story, which version is true.
Back in just a second.
It's open line Friday, and we will be getting to the phones in mere moments.
I just can't let this Edwards thing go, folks.
This is kari-esque.
This is Clinton-esque.
This is not normal.
It is not loving.
It's duplicitous.
I mean, here you have a man reputed to be a legitimate contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Breck girl.
Remember, too, that the Breck girl in the 2004 campaign assured people that Christopher Reeve would walk only if John Edwards or John Kerry were re-elected.
I'm trying to restrain myself here because this is simply, I don't care about him trying to get a PlayStation 3.
And it's very typical that somebody who really thinks he's better than everybody else and prominent would call up a volunteer.
I don't have Tom to stand alone.
I'm John Edwards.
So send some schlub to do it.
Don't pay him anything.
No, no, no, no.
You're big dead.
Send a volunteer.
Don't even pay him the minimum wage, which is one of the Democrats' big issue.
Well, that's right.
I wasn't even standing in line.
That's right.
But that's typical.
I mean, people in power, they go call Walmart.
Hey, I'm John Edwards.
And Walmart knows who Edwards is.
He's out there trying to destroy Walmart.
So how would I go about getting a PS3?
Well, what?
Who said Brian?
What?
Oh, no, I wouldn't.
No, no, no, no.
If I wanted a PlayStation 1, when the PlayStation 2 came out and this whole thing was happening, it was a phone call away.
Phone call away.
In fact, I got, yes, I got three of them from Los Angeles.
That's where my connection is.
It took two or three days, but I got them.
They weren't for me.
I've never played a PlayStation 3.
But you guys are distracting me.
I'm trying to be serious with this Edwards business.
You people, everybody's getting revved up about the presidential election.
You've got McCain out there.
If I didn't know better, trying to sound like me.
And you've got Rudy out there.
And it's early.
I'm not going to get into presidential handicapping business.
And I'm not going to tell you who I think.
I didn't even talk about this last night because, frankly, right now, I'm not interested in who gets a nomination.
It's so far off.
So much is going to happen between now and then that to get invested in it right now when I don't even think all the candidates have shown up is a waste of time.
It's part of being liberated.
It's part of not carrying the water.
You know, let these guys sink or swim on their own.
When I do something worth approaching, I'll applaud.
When I do something worth criticizing, I'll criticize it, but I'm not going to spend the next two years pretending the presidential election is tomorrow because it isn't.
We're going to have more fun watching the Democrats.
Pelosi and the Democrat leadership.
I finally got back to the hotel yesterday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, turned on TV for the first time all day.
I thought I'd been speaking that night.
I'd better find out what's in the news today.
And the first thing I see is videotape of the Democrats coming out of their caucus room, heading to the microphones to announce the results of their election.
I thought I was watching Mars attacks.
You know, by the way, I ran into Pelosi gets her hair done at the four seasons, and I ran into her yesterday afternoon.
She seemed surprised to see me.
But she seems surprised all the time, those wide open eyes of her.
And I didn't run into her, but she does get her hair done there.
Anyway, now back to this John Edwards.
You've got a little taste here of what's coming on the remainder of the program.
But folks, seriously now, you call some schlub.
He hate calls Walmart.
He says, I'm from John Edwards' office.
I want to get Mr. Edwards' son of PlayStation 3 from Walmart.
Wants to go to the front of the line.
Walmart says, nope, he can stand in line like every other regular American can.
I think they've pulled that statement down.
I want you to listen to a portion of a conference call.
This is before we learned of the PlayStation 3 and a Walmart story involving the Brett girl.
It's a national conference call, a montage.
We put this together of Senator Barack Obama and John Edwards talking about wages and Walmart.
You've got to pay your workers enough that they can actually not only shop at Walmart, but hopefully send their kids to college and save for retirement.
Walmart is making a large profit, and they don't have foreign competition.
What they are doing, though, is driving wages down significantly for not only workers at Walmart, but they're also driving down wages for competitors.
Being able to earn a living wage, being able to have the health care coverage that they need.
That's what's at stake in this Wake Up Walmart campaign.
Wake up Walmart.
And then shortly after this, this hypocrite sends a volunteer schlub to try to crack the line at a Walmart to get his kid a PlayStation 3.
And he tells the story of his kid, his six-year-old, chiding his friends for wearing sneakers bought at Walmart.
And Edward said, I didn't know he's going to call Walmart to get one of these.
But aside from all of that, I want to focus on what nobody else is focusing on when they report the story.
And that is, I don't have a six-year-old, but I've been one.
And I've been around some.
I mean, my brother has kids, 14 to age 2, so most of them have been six.
And I don't think any one of my nephews or nieces would ever go out and make fun of a kindergarten classmate for having something at Walmart.
There's no way a kid would know this unless the parents are out there telling him.
What must this six-year-old, if he really, if this really happened?
See, that's, I'm not sure this really happened.
This could just be a made-up story.
Like, Kerry makes up stories on the campaign trail, all kinds of stories Kerry made up.
Clinton's made up a few.
And this just sounds, this just sounds tailored to appeal to these union thugs that are behind this anti-Walmart campaign who support the Brett girls trying to get.
So they tell these unions that, yeah, my six-year-old, why, let me get the quote straight, repeated a story about his son, Jack, disapproving of a classmate buying sneakers at Walmart.
This is supposed to impress the union guys that in the Edwards house, Walmart's getting trashed every day.
And the Edwards kids are being raised right.
They're being raised to hate Walmart.
There is hate going on in the Edwards home.
My gosh, I know kids can be vicious to one another, and I know especially kids that, you know, kids can be mean.
I mean, everybody's mean.
They can't be, and they don't have the maturity yet to know.
And it's entirely possible that the son of a rich guy could run around and be making fun of poor people by saying, how dare you buy your cues at Walmart when the kids' family may be able to only afford to go there.
But still, this six-year-old doesn't know diddly squat about Walmart unless he's hearing it from his parents.
And that's the thing that nobody is talking about in this story.
And I just, I find that of all the details of this thing, the most interesting and the most curious.
And folks, I'm telling you, watch out for this guy because this is not only not genuine, this is phony, and it's beyond disbelievable.
There is something seriously wrong with this kind of combined behavior, all the elements of this story.
All right, let's, let's, oh, no, no, no.
I got one more companion story to this.
And it is a story from our affiliate there, WRAF.
No, no, it's the TV station in Raleigh.
The PlayStation 3 gaming console doesn't go on sale until Friday today, but people are already lining up to buy it.
Outside one Cary, North Carolina store, the line started forming just before noon on Wednesday.
And gamers and people trying to make a buck are going to great lengths to get their hands on the latest electronic craze.
Now, what this story is about is the guy who lives in the, they call it the triangle area down there.
And he just, this guy ran rings around the Brett girl in getting a PlayStation 3 and caring for the poorest among us.
What did the Brett girl do?
The Brett girl gets hold of a schlub volunteer, calls up, tries to get in front of the line.
Well, Walmart knows exactly what Edwards' position on their business and their company is.
This guy went down to the homeless shelter, to a homeless shelter.
He hired some homeless guys at $100 a day plus food to wait in line for him.
This guy is an entrepreneur, shows true care for the poor by finding ways to appeal out of his own self-interest.
By the way, this is how free market economics works.
This guy, you know, you've always heard me talk about how self-interest is not selfishness.
Self-interest is a great thing because it accomplishes a lot.
If you're a parent, if you're a breadwinner in your family, your self-interest is the best thing in the world for your family.
So this guy wanted a PlayStation 3, a bunch of them.
So he goes to the homeless shelter, hires these homeless guys, $100 a day plus food, to stand in line for him.
It's his own self-interest.
He wanted it, but his time is more valuable to do other things.
It spread good cheer.
It spread money to these homeless people.
They actually had to work, even though it was standing in line, but they had to work.
They had to commit themselves to time.
So he appealed to his own self-interest and their self-interest.
Everybody mutually benefited here.
It's a win-win situation.
In fact, while a TV station was there, the truck used to transport the men from the homeless shelter returned with food for these homeless guys.
Abdul Salem said he and a friend came up with the idea.
They said they planned to pay the men $100 a day, stand in line for a ticket to purchase a PS3 unit.
It costs around $600.
Now, here's an average guy.
I'm sure that John Edwards has contempt for him.
But here's an average guy who found a way to get a PlayStation 3 without bucking the line, without asking for preferential treatment, with no hate involved, $100 a day to some homeless guys, and a truck shows up to feed them while they're in line.
Now, there is somebody with genuine compassion and free market sense.
What a story in the aftermath of the death of the great Milton Friedman, about whom we will speak on the program.
By the way, we interviewed him.
I did for the Limbaugh lettering back in 1995, and we're going to post that interview at rushlimbaugh.com.
I think as soon as we can get it up, we will do that.
Back here in just a second.
Stay with us.
Okay, now it's back to the phones.
Here on the EIB network, El Rush Bow, 800-282-2882.
Randy in Savage, Minnesota.
You're first today, and it's great to have you on the program.
Thank you, Rush.
It's great to be the inaugural call on this wonderful Friday, by the way.
Terra Dittos from the Frozen Tundra Flyover Country.
Thank you, sir.
Welcome.
You know, your comment about the Fisher House and so forth reminded me of the fact that I'm friends of one of the band of brothers who happened to live back here in Minnesota.
And in May, he went to Fort Campbell, Kentucky for a reunion.
And he came back.
He and I spent an hour on the phone with him telling me how incredibly impressed he is with the 101st Airborne that he saw.
And he said, Randy, I don't think I could have gone through and passed the training that these guys go through.
But what impressed him even more was the fact that he said, these guys want to go back for their second and third tour of duties in Iraq, you said, with injuries and wounds that would have put us out of World War II, and we would have been happy to get them.
He was just, he was so amazing in an awe of these guys.
Said, now here's a guy, active duty combat, Bastone, severely wounded in Bastone, and he's talking about how much he is in awe of these men today.
Yeah, there was a guy I met last night who called me on this program.
His last name was Roselle.
And he suffered a leg injury.
And it was determined he would never be able to get back.
And he did pass the tests for combat to get back, I think as an amputee.
If I'm not confusing him, I hope I'm not confusing somebody.
Whoever I'm talking about wrote a book about this, and it was inspirational, just the kind of person that you're talking about.
And this man, Roselle, was there yesterday, and my memory wasn't clicking at the time because there were a barrage of people talking to me about things, and I was trying to keep things straight.
And it was a difficult hearing environment.
And if I'm confusing it with somebody, I apologize.
But I do know that he called this program and told a similar story about this.
And he was talking about how great it was to be able to meet me.
And that's kind of stuff that it's the other way around for me.
But your observation is exactly right.
When I saw these guys at Walter Reed yesterday, they know these injuries are severe.
I mean, losing both legs or an arm and a leg or an arm.
They know they're not going back to combat, but they want to stay in.
They're looking forward to, well, one guy was engaged, said, what's the date?
Don't know.
We're going to set it this December.
How often?
How often do you get to see your girlfriend?
Not enough because she's working some military job in Guatemala.
So doesn't get to see her as often as he would like, but they're going to set a date.
I mean, they're looking at their future as robustly as anybody looks at their future.
And when you see them, you think that if it happened to you, that you'd be consumed with self-pity and you'd be consumed with, oh my gosh, I can't live a normal life and so forth.
And they've, you know, I'm sure they go for rehabilitation for that too.
There's probably a lot of psychological therapy.
But the point is, the ones I saw, they were just magnificent in the way they and they did not want to be treated as anything other than a perfectly normal human.
They didn't want to be treated as disabled or anything else.
And they didn't want sympathy or anything.
And that's why I asked if it sometimes bothered them that people came in.
Oh, no, no, no.
We love it when people come in here.
Sometimes it gets old just seeing the same old people.
Anyway, Randy, thanks for the call.
Jordan in Boone, North Carolina, you're next, and welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hey, to Diddell, this from a rush baby rush.
Thank you, sir.
I am 16.
I'm a homeschooler.
I own my own computer repair business.
As you can imagine, I'm quite a geek.
And I've always known you.
I'm a 24-7 subscriber.
I see you on the video cam occasionally.
I see you with your 30-inch cinema display from Mac and under your QC.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
Exactly.
It's beautiful to behold.
And I've always wondered back in the day when computers were first coming out, what made you decide to get a Mac versus a PC?
Well, it's very simple.
The radio station I was working at, KFBK Sacramento, program director their consultant, was from San Francisco and had a Mac.
And it's just what I learned on.
And it was after I learned on it that I then saw PCs.
And this was before the PC crowd had stolen the GUI from Apple, who stole it from Xerox or whatever.
But when I saw how many keystrokes I was going to need to duplicate a mouse click, I said, so I just started with Mac.
It's what I learned on.
I've become proficient at it.
And I've grown to love it.
I think it's for what it does, it's better than anything on the market.
And I know that they probably hate me for saying it.
They're big libs at Apple.
But it's just what I started with is the basic answer.
It's what I learned on.
Well, I tell you, I mean, I've done a lot of computer repair with PCs and Macs.
And I don't use Macs all that often.
I'd love to be a Mac user, but I just, I'm working on saving up for that.
Well, hang on.
Hang on.
Hang on a minute.
I've got to go to a break here.
Hang on here, and we'll continue.
It may be a while because I've really run up against the programming format here.
But don't go anywhere out there, Jordan.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Pollution could combat global warming, and forest fires may actually cool the climate.
Oh, no.
And it snowed when Al Gore went to Arizona or Australia for a global warming meeting.
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