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Dec. 1, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 1, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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And greetings and welcome back, you eager beavers, L Rush Ball and Open Line Friday, final hour underway.
Let's make it count.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And we have a good open line Friday going.
I am talking about serious stuff, and you people on the phones are talking about frivolous, meaningless stuff, which is good.
I'm only kidding, it's not meaningless.
I I love, you know, taking a break from all this serious fist pounding table pounding stuff all the time.
I applaud you people uh calling in today on open line Friday.
We go to the phones, the program's yours.
Uh ask, comment, complain about anything.
Now you getting any complaints, or you just uh the dingbat didn't call Ingrid Ingrid was the one that called, and you didn't put Ingrid from California somewhere, and you didn't put her through.
Oh, Ingrid's a standby, she's the new Rita X. You didn't know that because you're you're a temporary screener now.
Oh, Ingrid, she's from Sacramento or something like that, right?
Oh, we've had more fun with Ingrid.
Well, Ingrid, this is your personal invitation to call back.
Uh and anybody else as well.
800-282-2882 is the phone number if you want to be on the program.
The email address rush at eIBNet.com.
Who who was the gentleman that just called?
What was his name?
Going to go into Hawaii.
Do you write his name down in there?
Sir, I hope you're s Rich is rich.
Okay, Rich.
This is the guy that's going to Hawaii but doesn't know what hotels he's staying in.
Because his wife handled that.
Which also means that Rich has no idea what this is going to cost him.
But nevertheless, Rich wanted some restaurant suggestions over there, and I I I uh I do not go out to eat when I'm in Hawaii, very, very rarely.
Uh but the true true to form, the audience is coming through here with suggestions for fine places to eat, particularly in Maui, uh, which is one of the specific questions that he asked about.
And there are couple restaurants here that are being mentioned uh over and over, so I assume that uh these recommendations are good.
Uh Daniel Irwin says no better seafood place in the world than Mama's Fish House.
Uh it's uh to colorful little in a colorful little hippie town south of the airport.
Mama's fish house.
Uh and then Nick's Fish Market has been suggested.
Chemo's in Maui, uh great to deny for it, says here.
Two best places in Maui to eat, the Banyan Tree at the Ritz, and Mama's Fish House.
And here's another one that says Mama's Fish House.
So apparently Mama's fish house, very popular there.
Uh let's see, Nick, let's see.
Mama's fish house is near uh, I'm not sure if this guy spelled it right, P A I A Beach.
Uh, but it's it's uh that as I say, that little hippie town south of the uh of the airport.
Mama's fish.
Oh, we see.
We have taken care of your minds.
We have uh filled your minds.
It's now now time to feed you here on the EIB network when you uh travel internationally.
All right.
Uh ran across a story.
This is from yesterday, Cybercast News Service.
Liberal Christians going head to head with conservative Christians.
Now, this is a sinister story, and I want to I want to share this with you.
Progressive or liberal Christian groups attempting to dilute the political influence of their conservative brethren are now speaking up when conservative Christian leaders speak out.
The most recent example came on Wednesday, a week after Dr. James Dobson, the founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, discussed faith, sexuality, and liberalism with Larry King Live.
The Institute for Progressive Christianity, a new group, accused Dobson of making highly inaccurate statements and crackpot assertions during his conversation with Larry King.
In a lengthy news release on Wednesday, the uh Institute for Progressive Christian, when you see the word progressive in anything, folks, just think liberal.
They use the word progressive rather than call themselves liberals.
Uh The uh this group rebutted Dobson's comments one by one, but it's not so much what the liberal Christians are saying, it's that they're saying it at all.
Until now, conservative Christian leaders have been largely ignored by liberal groups in the mainstream media, except in cases where their controversial statements are held up for condemnation and ridicule.
I'm not, this is this is a story by Susan Jones at Cybercast News Service.
I'm reading it to you.
I'm not aware that these Christian leaders have been ignored.
I think they're constantly laughed at, impugned and made fun of, and they're held to a much higher standard than anybody else in American politics.
At any rate, the Institute for Progressive Christianity describes itself as a think tank compromising mainstream liberal Christians, or comprising mainstream liberal Christians.
And on Wednesday it took exception to Dobson's remark that liberals are often those who have no value system and who embrace moral relativism.
And of course, Dobson is exactly right about that.
The group also attacked Dobson's beliefs on homosexuality.
Dobson rejected the notion that gays are born that way and they have no choice in the matter.
He thinks it's a developmental disorder is what he said on Dr. Larry King's show.
And the IPC also took issue with Dobson's serious misstatement on the separation of church and state.
Dobson got it right.
He said that the so-called separation of church and state's not found in the U.S. Constitution.
The only place where the so-called wall of separation was mentioned was in a letter written by Jefferson to a friend, Dobson said.
It's been picked up and made to be something it was never intended to be.
What it's become is that the government is protected from the church instead of the other way around, which is that church was designed to be protected from the government.
Now the progressive Christian group says that Dobson's comments are not supported by history.
While it is true that the phrase separation of church estates not found in the Constitution or the First Amendment, the concept was well understood by leading thinkers of the time.
Leading thinkers of the time.
Now I want to say two things about this.
First, on separation of church and uh church and state.
Uh Dobson is exactly right about this, and the fact that people have been led to believe that there is a constitutional separation between church and state has been a designed strategy that is that has been uh implemented over the past 40 years, and it's one of these things that's just now accepted as fact when it is not.
All the the founders intended was that the state would not demand that people follow a specific church.
Period.
But it has come to uh be believed because of the the the never-ending repetition that it is constitutional and that there is separation of church and state, and that this means many things.
It means that religious people really have no business being in government because there's separation of church and state, which means separation of religion and state.
It is also come to mean, of course, that there can't be any public displays of Christianity, even on national holidays like Christmas, because of separation of church and state.
There's no such thing, but it's just come to be uh accepted.
This is a another of one of many examples of how liberalism and their allies in the media can create a fact out of whole cloth that doesn't exist.
But here's something else, and this is the this is the larger point.
We just had the election.
The Democrats just won the election less than a month ago.
This is a brand new group, the Institute for Progressive Christianity.
They make up, they create this brand new group, whose express purpose is to bash Christians.
They do so by claiming that they are Christians too, but that the Falwells and the Robertsons and the Evangelicals are nuts and wacko and pose a threat to real Christians, the progressive Christians.
This is nothing more than a natural offshoot of their method in the election.
They presented a bunch of Democrats with a conservative script, said you go I, you guys go out there and campaign as conservatives, we'll tell you how to do it.
Make sure you say you love God, you love Jesus and you're pro-life and you love guns and all this, and you go out there and win.
And in the process, you fool those voters into thinking that you're not who you are.
And in the process, we liberal leaders of the House will get to run the joint.
And this was, as Dr. Thomas Sowell referred to it, a classic illustration of real vote fraud.
Democrats putting up candidates to campaign as people they are not for the express purpose of having a local election result in a Democrat victory in enough places that people like Pelosi, a pure unadulterated liberal, and others in her organization now run the House of Representatives.
So you you have here a new group of Christians, the progressive Christians, who are running around with a with a script that says existing evangelicals and Christian leaders are corrupt.
And just as Republican uh uh incumbents were corrupt.
This is supposed to depress the Republican turnout of the polls, uh, one-sided media stories that ran the gamut from Iraq and the war on terror to amoral gay molesters, i.e., fully corrupt Abramoff connected Republican uh politicians.
Uh they covered all the bases, they pulled out all the stops to eek out of victory just before they uh they were on the verge of collapsing.
And now they're ramping up to trash any Christian who dares say anything.
It's it's the same technique that they ran during the campaign, put a bunch of frauds up as conservatives, win in those conservative districts as Democrats, for the sole purpose of making Nancy Pelosi speaker of the House and uh and her, you know, Stenny Hoyer the number two guy.
Now, the same technique, they're ramping up to trash any Christian who dares say anything with a group of progressive Christians who say that everything you Christians are being told by your leaders is wrong and a bunch of fraud.
So this this is um you watch this this group is gonna be a claim.
This is the one Christian group, the uh uh Institute for Progressive Christianity, which will not be left at, which will not be made fun of, which will not be impugned.
Chris Matthews won't be telling any jokes about what these people are doing on Saturday night in a church parking lot, or on Friday night at a Roadhouse Bar in Tennessee.
They are going to be applauded.
And the whole point of this is to further fracture the um the twenty-four million evangelicals and conservative Christians in this country and provoke this little uh internacene war that that they hope to uh result in the uh diminution of the strength of a very serious and strong Republican voting block.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and continue after this.
Open line Friday, El Rushbo with a mixture of serious news and irreverent humor and frivolous comment, all combined in one presentation, found nowhere else in uh in major media.
More restaurant uh suggestions in uh in Maui, the Hutch uh from Seattle suggests Longy's Steak on Kanapali Beach, L-O-N-G-H-I.
I hope Rich is still listening out there writing this down.
Uh, and my uh my golf partner at the ATT, Tom Pernice, uh says Roy's in Maui and Roy's in Honolulu.
So apparently there are two Roys.
And you can go to one or both of them when you're um when you're over there.
So uh look at it's you know, unless you go to Poi in a box, I mean you're gonna have you're gonna have uh, you know, an You're gonna have an excellent experience over there.
I'm serious.
It's it's um Hawaii's one of these places the pina coladas taste better and look better, the uh uh the food smells better, tastes better.
Uh it's you you you're not gonna have uh just go don't get involved in the politics over there.
Just just pretend you're in paradise and forget politics when you're you're go nuts.
All right, who's next on this?
Rainey.
Uh in Marquette, 12 years old?
Yes.
Hey, Rainey.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
Good, how are you?
I'm never better.
Thank you for your call.
Yes, thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Hey, I was calling to ask you.
We are going down to Florida for Christmas, and I want to give my brother, me and him, golf, and I'm gonna give him a Christmas present to one of the good golf courses down there by Port St. Lucy.
Do you know any of Good One?
Oh, you're going to go.
You're going to go to Port St. Lucy?
Yes.
The PGA has a uh a fabulous complex of golf courses there that are public.
I think I think some have turned private, but uh and I've played on these courses once.
They're really uh or one of the courses once.
It's it's a fabulous complex.
Uh it draws a lot of people.
It'll probably be crowded, but it's but it's it's a you know names can change, but I I don't think this has changed.
It's a PGA pre Professional Golfers of America uh uh complex.
And it's right there in Port St. Lucy.
It's a did you have to know about this to be going to Port St. Lucy because there's no other reason to go to Port St. Lucy when the Mets aren't there training in the spring.
Yes, we uh I have an uncle down there and we we like practicing at the PGA Learning Center.
That's where Well, I mean that that's that's I was I was gonna suggest a couple other places before I knew where you were gonna go.
Now there's uh there's uh for for the next time you do this because you'll want to come down here after coming here once, you'll want to come here a lot more.
By the way, you're you're coming from Marquette, Kansas.
Yeah, you'll you'll like coming here.
Yeah.
Um but the the the the big course at the at TPC at Sawgrass, which is up in Pontavidra, which is near Jacksonville.
Yes.
That course is the is the they play the tour champ the uh the players' championship there, but it's closed right now because they're redoing the course, but there are four other courses there that you can play, and you have to stay in the hotel in order to get on them.
They're not private, but you have to stay in the hotel to be able to get on them.
Okay.
Um but yeah, look into I can't remember the name of this place uh in in Port St. Lucy.
This this but it's a it's a giant PGA complex up there.
Okay.
Yeah, how old is your brother?
He is thirteen and he has a point four handicap.
He has a what handicap?
Point four.
You gotta be kidding.
Yes.
You tell him I hate him.
Oh, okay, I will.
A point four handicap and he has thirteen?
Yes, sir.
There are days I would give up everything to be a scratch golfer.
Just for a day.
That's that's unbelievable.
How how old were how old was he when he started playing?
Oh, he started playing when maybe he was eight, just about.
At age thirteen, you're not talking putt-putt.
You're talking real golf courses.
Yes.
What about you?
I have uh eleven handicap right now.
Oh, there's no justice.
There is there is no well, congratulations.
You that means you both are gonna enjoy the game as long as you keep it that that's uh your parents coming with you, or you guys coming down on your own.
Yes, we're all coming down there.
Terrific.
Have you been to Port Lu you have an uncle there, so you've been in Port St. Lucy, but okay.
So you know what you're getting into.
Yeah.
All right.
Well that um uh gee, that's that's that's tremendous.
I how long are you gonna be up there?
Oh, we're gonna be up there for maybe January and February, just after Christmas.
We'll be up there for a while.
Oh, well then you'll maybe have a chance.
You're gonna be going to school down here while you're here?
No, well, we're homeschooled, so we can just bring our book stop down there and do that.
So even better.
Yes.
So if you want to, you could take a drive up to Pontavidra and and uh and and try one of those golf courses up there.
I'm a little bit uh at a disadvantage here because I don't know see, I'm uh when I start recommending cigars, I'm I'm sure I alienate or make some of my friends mad by leaving out their brands, but I don't play a lot of public golf courses, so I don't know where a lot of them are.
Uh here in here in Florida, and but there are plenty of 'em.
Yes.
And uh uh you might you might in fact if uh if you wanted uh you're uh uh what your budget is, but if you wanted to come to Palm Beach for a day or two or weekend and stay at the breakers, they have a golf course.
It's a short golf course, they don't have much real estate, but they've tricked it up with Target Greens and a lot of sand, and so it would be a pretty good challenge.
Okay.
And that's a great place to stay for a day or two, and and their golf course is part of the amenity that you get to play uh as as a guest.
Yes.
Well, you know what would be even better.
You could even come down and play with him.
that would be I mean the best Christmas present ever to give to him, so it'd be embarrassing to go out and play with a thirteen.
Well, it would be an honor to come play with you.
Yeah, but you guys would cream me.
Oh, no, we would die.
It would be fine.
I mean, he would be the best.
It would be awesome.
Uh yeah, it it it well, it would be fun.
But you know, I I I um appreciate your saying that.
That's that's that's uh that's very stay in touch when you get down here uh in January and February.
Call us back.
Okay.
Let me know where you are, and uh and you never know.
We'll see if we can work something out, okay?
Okay.
Thanks, Randy.
We'll be back here, folks, in mere minutes.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rushbow serving humanity, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Are you aware, uh, ladies and gentlemen, there is still a contested congressional race out there where two recounts have shown the Republican to be the winner.
Each recount has expanded his margin of victory, and the Democrat candidate is continuing to oppose this.
It is Florida's 13th Congressional District, runs along the Gulf Coast out there just south of Tampa to north of Fort Myers.
Uh, this is the Catherine Harris district.
Uh, the certified winner, certified winner is Vern Buchanan, the Republican.
The Democrat is Christine Jennings.
He beat Christine Jennings by fewer than 400 votes out of more than 237,000 cast.
There have been two recounts, demanded by Democrats and required by law.
They have uh reconfirmed Buchanan's victory and slightly increased the margin.
But that doesn't mean anything.
The Democrats are now suggesting that defective voting machines cost them the race.
They point to Sarasota County's 18,000 undervotes or incidences where voters cast ballots in other races, but not the Buchanan-Jennings contest.
Miss Jennings, along with such liberal partisans as people for the liberal American way and the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit contesting the results based on statistical and eyewitness evidence of significant machine malfunctions in Sarasota's I Votronic touch screen system.
They want a court to declare, get this.
They want a court to declare Ms. Jennings the winner by using the statistical models to extrapolate that she would have received most of the undervotes.
Short of that, they'll settle for nullifying the November results and holding a new election.
But among the many things that are strange here is that if anyone ought to be complaining about undervotes, it's the Republicans.
Sarasota is the largest and most Republican county in the district.
Yet the Democrat Miss Jennings carried it handily.
In fact, it's the only county in the district that she did carry.
Which makes it more likely that it was Republicans who declined to vote in the congressional race, not Democrats.
This week, Florida officials began auditing the voting machines, which is the very thorough and transparent process for determining whether they worked properly.
There's still no evidence at all that the machines malfunctioned.
But never mind.
Nancy Pelosi allowed Ms. Jennings to vote in House leadership elections last month.
Even though she wasn't elected.
Democrats could attempt to disallow the Florida certification certification and vote to seat Miss Jennings in January.
Unless a new election is granted.
Democrats did precisely that in a contested India Indiana house race twenty years ago when they last held Congress.
And I remembered that, and they ended up winning it.
Darn, I wish you could remember the names.
I was in Sacramento when that happened, and I was I was really irritated by it.
And they're trying to same thing here in Florida 13.
Um if you can't win with the votes, whine and cheat and sue.
This is from London's Daily Telegraph.
The headline, success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a myth.
Sexual abstinence as an effective tool in reducing teenage pregnancy is a complete myth.
The government's advisory board on the issue claimed yesterday, the independent advisory group on teenage pregnancy said that research from the U.S. showed that contraception was the way to bring down teenage pregnancy rates.
Only 14% of the drop amongst 15 to 19-year-olds was linked to reduced sexual activity, according to the study.
Only 14% of the drop was linked to reduced sexual activity.
What part of 14% is the myth?
Then this is this is.
You know, all this time, ever since Bill Bennett told me that abstinence works every time it's tried.
Bill Bennett's the first guy to ever said that to me.
And he was right.
All this time I've been thinking that teenage girls who don't have sex are highly unlikely to get pregnant.
I I there must be a whole lot of immaculate conceptions going on out there.
Otherwise, how in the world can you say as a as a logical physiological matter that abstinence doesn't work?
Maybe they're trying to say that abstinence teaching doesn't work because the kids are saying, screw that, I'm gonna go screw around.
But I'm sorry, folks, abstinence does work unless we've got a bunch of immaculate conceptions going on out there.
This is this is just patently absurd, but it's liberalism on the march, and there's a reason for it, and that is to promote as much immorality as possible, and then embrace it as imperfect, needing government programs to deal with the results.
Along the same subject, a former strip club waitress sentenced Wednesday to five years of supervised release after she pleaded guilty to mailing threatening letters and flammable materials, including exploding condoms to uh men that she said had mistreated her.
The document said that Kimberly Lynn DeSilva, 49, mailed the explosive condom, actually, condoms filled with a potentially explosive mixture.
She mailed them to a TV station.
Uh strip clubs where she had worked, other places, saying she was tired of being mistreated by men.
None of the condoms exploded, however.
Uh DeSilva told investigators she didn't think they would uh explode.
Uh Casper, Wyoming, 16-year-old Katie Christofferson getting ready to do her homework on Friday when she got a call that made a big improvement in her life.
She'd want a brand new pickup truck for near perfect screw attendance, and not just any truck, a $28,000 Chevrolet, Colorado crew cab in red with an MP3 player.
They're giving away trucks in Wyoming for perfect attendance.
Now, would this have made you want to go to school every day if you had a chance to win a truck?
Me either.
Couldn't have cared less.
I don't care if it could have been a give me a Mustang or GTO.
Uh wouldn't have done it because I made plans to buy my own someday.
So screw that.
I'm not I wasn't going to become a welfare recipient.
What are we?
What?
Well, of course you get subways in New York.
Yeah, you're exempt from this.
I don't have subways in Casper, Wyoming.
You have subways where I grew up.
What are we doing here?
Awarding pickup trucks for perfect attendance in Wyoming.
What else is there to do in Wyoming if you don't go to school?
Broke back mountain experiences?
I'm just kidding.
I know I love Wyoming.
I just I love it.
Now we talked touched on this earlier.
The Sundance Film Festival announced Wednesday that Seattle filmmaker Robinson Dever's documentary Zoo has been accepted in the 2007 festival's documentary competition.
The film examines the widely reported case of an Enumclaw Washington man who died in 2005 after having sex with a horse.
Zoo is one of 16 documentaries for competition.
All of which will screen as world premieres.
Now, you may remember this story.
This guy and a buddy of his broke into some other guy's barn.
And And they had sex with the horse, and the guy died.
You know, which conjures up, you know, well, we have this mother who called and said, is this show suitable for 16-year-olds?
you're gonna have to use your imagination here, folks, to figure out what had to be happening here for the guy to die.
What we learned in this story when it first came out is that there at the time there was no law against having sex with an animal in Washington so long as you can prove the animal either enjoyed it or didn't dislike it.
Uh or if the animal wasn't harmed by it, you you don't go to town.
Uh this gave rise to people calling how do you know the animal enjoyed it?
Uh and and some guy calls, say you ever heard of the sheep stick, is that what it was called?
It's a stick, it's got a stick, it has a mirror on the end, and that's how you see if the sheep is smiling.
Okay, so the Libs have started their new Christian group, the uh the Institute for Progressive Christianity.
I'm thinking of starting a group with some of my uh renowned conservative colleagues called the Americans for creative reality.
Uh we believe in the power of positive delusion.
Sometimes you have to rise above your principles.
That would be the Americans for creative reality.
We just make it up.
Make up our own reality, counter the libs, and uh deal with them on that level.
Dan and uh Bri Brigantine, New Jersey.
Welcome to the EIB network.
How are you doing, Rush?
Just fine.
Thank you, sir.
I just had a comment on what you were talking about earlier in Dar 4 as to uh what is the United Nations doing?
I mean, it seems like all they do these days is is they condemn the United States and Israel and do nothing else.
Yeah, they're demanding we go in there.
Well, they're demanding we go in there, why don't they go in there?
Exactly right.
Because they're not capable of doing anything, and you well know it.
Well, I do know that.
You're absolutely right.
By the way, I misspoke about Darfur earlier.
I said it was uh uh genocide being committed by blacks against blacks.
It's actually not.
It's the uh blacks are being murdered and uh and wiped out by Arabs.
Uh uh Muslim Arabs that are that are moving in there, and it it's uh it's even worse.
Genocide's genocide, but that that's it it's still the nature of the victim here is what's motivating these calls for support.
Okay.
I have one more quick question.
Um it just has to do with the Philadelphia Eagles, because it's open line Friday.
I mean, you know, I've listened to all of the local sports talk shows uh, you know, in nauseum, and uh, you know, they just say the same thing over again.
What's your opinion on the Philadelphia Eagles?
What's the problem here?
Oh, see, I'm a well-known expert on the Eagles.
Yeah, and that's that's why um that's why Dan here is asking my opinion on the Eagles.
Well, look, from afar, um, I would I would say, as a student of the game, and I've been I've been actually looking at this since uh McNabb's injury, which I feel badly about.
I mean, this guy's gonna be 30, he's 31 now or 30.
Uh this is an eight to twelve month recovery.
It's a freak injury.
It didn't even happen as a result of uh of a hit.
Uh but you know, they'd lost their last four out of five games with McNabb in there, and uh then not his fault because he's been having what what could have been a career season.
I just think when you have one guy who coaches the players and puts together the team, uh, in this case Eagles do, Andy Reed, uh you you you find that places where that happens more often than not, draft choices aren't what they could be.
The coach is a busy guy.
And when the coach is also drafting the players and in charge of football operations to that extent, without a committee or people helping out, sometimes you can't devote full attention to uh the one area of coaching and and and game day performance that's uh necessary.
That's the best shot I could take.
I just don't think they've drafted the best players that have been available when uh let me let me just say this that I I would say that many, many, many people in the Philadelphia area agree with you on that.
Well, I'm not surprised.
I mean, I owned Philadelphia.
That's for sure.
Absolutely.
Hey, next time you're at Nick's Roast Beef, would you tell him I said hi there?
I will.
I get there a couple times a year.
Well, go next time you're there, you tell them I said hi.
They put my picture up.
I was in there back in uh it must have been uh April.
Uh just unique place.
Finest, it's right next to uh right there on well, it's off Broad Street, but it's it's uh near all the uh the big name cheeses steak places where John Kerry went.
Uh and asked for Provolone and mustard.
And then barely had the guts to touch the thing when they uh delivered it to him.
He and Teresa just don't eat it.
Do you know what he and Teresa are doing?
Carrie and his wife, or Teresa and her husband, I should say, are writing a book on the environment.
Now, and he he's running for president.
Do you not think the environment what whatever he says about it as an issue is owned by Al Gorinette party.
So Carrie and Teresa writing a book on the environment?
I'm telling you folks, it's gonna be a fun two years in part.
Uh Dan, thanks for the call.
This is Tula in Chicago.
Hi, welcome to the program.
Hi Chico, you're in Chico.
I miss Yeah, right.
I'm sorry, you're in Chico, California.
Misread that.
Yes, I Rush.
I wanted to talk to you about Rio Linda, California.
Okay.
You for years I've long time listener.
When you were in Sacramento, I lived and worked in downtown Sacramento.
And um I know you've always had it uh a bad opinion of Rio Linda.
I was wondering, have you been back?
Well, no.
Um uh I've been back Sacramento a couple of times, but the odor up there prevented me from getting close.
From the Pickles?
Yeah.
No, I haven't I haven't I have not been back to Rio Linda.
Well, I I went back, Rush, uh about two months ago.
What do you mean you went back?
Did you live there?
Well, I actually I lived in El Verta.
I built a new home in El Verde.
Well, El Verta, you know, that you're I'm Rio Linda.
That's close.
That's but anyway, I I left there.
I worked for the state of California and got transferred to Crescent City, California, which if you think Rio Linda's bad, boy, Crescent City is just horrible.
Spent thirteen years there, came back uh originally to Paradise, and then um came down to Chico, and I went back and I was pleasantly surprised.
They have uh real shopping center with real stores.
Uh streets are now paved with sidewalks and curves and and a lot of the old low life houses and stuff are gone, and I was just I I I was glad to see that they were finally doing something with it.
Well, you may be able to take the people out of Rio Linda, but you can't take Rio Linda out of the people.
This picture.
And although I'm not originally from there, I only lived for a short time, thankfully, because I got transferred.
But uh I have friends that have lived there forever that I met while I lived there.
They've always struggled work-wise, um, had five children, uh, refused to ever go on welfare or anything, and have basically just worked and worked, put their kids through college, yeah.
And there's success stories, but there's not very many from there.
I know.
I I know who you're talking about the washer and dryer out in the front porch.
Oh my goodness, Rush.
Just horrible.
But it is improving, and they are cleaning it up, and uh uh agreed the people there are never gonna change.
It was funny that you were talking about sex with animals right while I was listening, waiting to talk to you.
No, not even not no no, don't go here.
Not even I have crossed that boundary.
Yeah.
But um I was just wondering if you'd been back and I think you'd be pleasantly surprised, although I I I I've got a I've gotta get to Sacramento sometime next year for I can't I can't tell you why it's private thing.
Um but it'd be cool to organize a parade through there through Rio Linda just to see uh if it's uh if it's changed, as uh as much as you say it has.
Not a bad idea.
Tula, thanks so much for the phone call.
A quick time out, folks.
We'll close it out here in just a second.
I've uh been advised, ladies and gentlemen, uh not to organize a parade in Rio Linda.
I'm told that a lot of the citizens there are still marching in a circle from the last parade.
Well, I hope you have a great weekend out there, uh ladies and gentlemen.
Uh big NFL weekend for me, a couple of golf games, uh, and some other secret stuff that uh newspaper will probably find out about, but I can't tell you.
Uh Dallas will beat the Giants um on Sunday at the Meadowlands.
We'll be back on Monday.
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