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Jan. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 19, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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Yeah, I know.
I was just looking for something.
I was seeing a thought we had an audio summit or something, but we don't.
No big deal.
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It's going to sound boring.
Nobody's going to want to listen.
It's just a good thing I care about a lot of stuff.
Well, on Friday, I don't have to care about it.
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Well, it was on this program.
If you listen to this program, by the way, you are on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
It wasn't long ago.
Well, it was a long time ago.
It was has to be the early 90s.
This program, during the discussions of women in combat military, came up with the unique idea of the All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion, a bunch of combat-ready females on PMS.
Way to go.
Great, great tactic.
In fact, it might have worked in getting Manuel Noriega out of his hiding place a little sooner than playing rock music did.
Well, United Nations has ripped me off.
The United Nations' first all-female peacekeeping force, made up of 105 Indian police women, is set to deploy to the troubled West African country of Liberia, an official said Friday.
The team, which has been training since September, leaves for Liberia on Sunday.
They will initially stay there for six months, and then it will depend on the UN.
This is the first all-female peacekeeping team, and participants have said that it would have unique advantages in conflict zones.
Yes, women police are seen to be much less threatening, although they can be just as tough as men.
But in a conflict situation, they are more approachable, and it makes women and children feel safer, said Seema Dundia, a unit commander.
Okay, well, interesting theory.
We'll keep an eye, make a note, keep an eye on Liberia.
Let's just see if women as peacekeepers are more approachable by women and children.
You know, a lot of UN peacekeeping forces engage in rape and child rape and a number of, particularly in Africa.
We'll see if there's any change in that behavior here with the all-babe police force.
Have you, I'm sure you have, you seen the story of this guy in New Hampshire who's holed up in his house refusing to pay taxes?
He's been convicted of tax evasion, but he's not coming out.
He said he made money, less money, he and his wife, who's, by the way, he called her a champion herbalist.
But anyway, he and his wife have made less money than the President and Mrs. Bush, and yet they paid more taxes than President Mrs. Bush did.
Apparently, this guy says he doesn't know as many deductions as Bush does.
Just isn't right, calling himself a constitutional ranger.
He was asked recently, what's your plan?
He said, what do you mean by plan?
I'm saving America.
So he's holed up in his house in New Hampshire.
The live free or die state.
He keeps shouting that, too.
And they're just going to wait him out.
I mean, I doubt that they'll storm the house unless he starts firing at them.
But he is armed in there.
Nancy Pelosi said that she will not block Iraq funding to stop the troop surge.
Ditto, see, I told you so.
Another one.
El Rushball calling it way, way back, meaningless resolution, nothing more than symbolism.
They don't have the guts to cut funding for the soldiers.
She was, let's see, she was, what was this?
Yeah, it's cut seven.
We're going to keep this one for the archives, too.
She's on Good Morning, America, today.
Diane Sawyer said, on Iraq, as we sit here right now, 3,500 troops are moving in.
That's the first of the surge.
It's begun.
Are you going to move to cut off funding for troops going into Iraq as part of the surge?
Democrats will never cut off funding for our troops when they are in harm's way.
But we will hold the president accountable.
He has to answer for his war.
He has dug a hole so VP can't even see the light on this.
It's a tragedy.
It's a historic blunder.
Democrats will never cut off funding for...
Well, then what the hell is all this rigmarole going on in the House and in the Senate?
What is all of this?
It is exactly as I told you.
It's total show, and it is fundraising for these people, but it's also illustrating their investment in defeat.
Did you see the latest Fox News poll on this?
You know, this will open your eyes, I think.
Here's the question.
Do you personally want the Iraq plan President Bush announced last week to succeed?
You want to hear the results?
The overall results are 63% of the American people say yes, 22% say no, and 15% say they don't know.
Well, let's combine those last two.
You basically have 63% of the American people who want the plan to succeed and 37% who either don't or don't know.
Now, interesting, isn't it, that Maurice Hinchy in the House of Representatives is running around on his hush-rush tour for the fairness doctrine.
And he's out there.
Among the things he is saying is that the American people are not getting both sides.
They're just not getting both sides.
How can that be?
When in a lot of polls, 60% of the American people are opposed to the Iraq war.
How in the world can he say that the American people are not getting both sides?
How in the world can he say?
Even if you look at this poll on this latest surge, 63% want it to succeed, 37 don't or don't know.
Where's the lack of balance?
What does he want?
80% opposing the war in Iraq?
Is that what he wants?
The idea Americans aren't getting both points of view is absurd, but this is troublesome.
We have all these people in the country.
Well, we support the troops.
We support the troops.
We've got 150,000 of them over there, 20,000 more on the way.
And only 63% in a Fox News poll want this plan to work, i.e. want the United States to win the war.
Here's the party breakdown.
Democrats, do you personally want the Iraq plan President Bush announced last week to succeed?
Democrats, 51% yes.
34% no.
15% don't know.
Republicans, 79% yes, 11% no.
10% don't know.
Okay, so only 79%, not even 80% of Republicans want this to succeed.
And yet there's an imbalance of opinion in American media.
And the precious independents, ladies and gentlemen, those who tell us where we really are, 63% say they want it to succeed, 19% say they don't, and 17% say that they don't know.
49% of Democrats either want us to lose or don't know.
I wish somebody would tell me from the Democrat side, and even this 20% overall and the 11% of Republicans who don't want to succeed, would somebody explain to me the national interest in losing?
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Let's see, you've heard about the no-spank bill in California?
Heard about this?
It would be a crime to spank your kids ever.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I'll get to this in a Schwarzenegger supports it.
Well, he's open to the idea.
By the way, have you heard what Schwarzenegger's saying about his plan to raise taxes in California to pay for all this stuff, the health care?
He's calling it a loan.
He's trying to avoid the same pitfall that happened to Bush 41 when he reneged on his no new taxes pledge.
And he's calling it a loan.
Now, I have to think nobody on his staff would dare advise him of this.
So this has to be his idea.
To call this a loan, to call a tax increase a loan as though it's going to get paid back?
To whom and by whom?
Something's happened to Arnold, folks.
I don't know what it is, but something has happened.
I mean, go back and listen to this guy in 2005 talking about tax cuts and responsible government and so forth.
Something's don't.
Snerdley's shouting, Maria, Maria, I'm not going to play that role.
I'm not going to sit here and assume that the stereotype here of the liberal wife finally dominated because this guy is, well, because why now?
Why now?
He's had all these years to lose control, to lose the power struggle of the ideology of the household.
Maybe because he's governor, the pressure's being ratcheted up from the, I don't know, but something's happened.
But to call a tax increase a loan, now to say you're open to the idea of a ban on spanking?
You realize how many times my dad would have gone to jail if we'd have been, if I'd lived in California, my mother, too.
Under four years old.
Yeah, under.
Oh, wait a minute.
Little Dawn piped in here.
Are you trending toward agreeing with this?
What's the fine?
What is the penalty?
Do you know for parents who break this law if it happens?
Well, stand by, and I will tell you.
I got a couple other things here.
Concerned.
This is from Sylmar, California, concerned that their community has become a dumping ground for sex offenders.
Residents yesterday applauded a proposed law that would evenly distribute the state's most despised parolees across assembly districts.
Can you believe this?
They want equal distribution of sex offenders.
I have the solution to this.
Stating that 124 registered sex offenders live in Sylmar, California, and just six of them reside in Beverly Hills.
Assemblyman Richard Alarcone de San Fernando said that it is unfair that some communities, often in lower-income areas, shoulder more responsibility than others.
If it was equal up and down the state, I guess Sylmar would have to accept their fair share, but this is not equal.
That's not right.
Under current law, sex offenders must return to the area where they lived before they go behind bars.
But in many cases, parolees do not have permanent housing to return to, so parole agents often find temporary housing in motels that meet residency requirements for them.
This is easy.
San Francisco.
Just send them.
They'd be welcome with open arms.
They wouldn't even be noticed in San Francisco.
All right.
Muslims now want a mosque in the football stadium.
This is Little Green Footballs, the blog site.
Yet another demand from Muslims for special treatment, special treatment that would be denied to any other religious group.
They want timeout for prayer.
As the Ohio State Buckeyes pummeled the Northwestern Wildcats on Ryan Field last November, senior Amir Siddiqui and his friends slipped below the bleachers, removed their shoes, and knelt on pieces of poster board to pray.
As the sea of purple cheered and jeered above, they tuned out the world to perform Salat, the Islamic ritual prayer that faithful Muslims recite five times daily.
Siddiqui will do the same in Welsh Ryan Arena next week when the Buckeyes basketball team goes up against the Wildcats.
But rather than pray amid raucous crowds, some Muslim students are pressing Northwestern's athletic department to set aside a secluded space for the ritual or grant them permission to come and go from the arena before the buzzer.
If we attempt the game in its entirety, we would miss one of our five daily prayers, said Siddiqui, president of the Muslim Cultural Student Association.
I can leave the game early, come later, or pray somewhere in the stadium on dirty floors with lots of noise and lots of people around, which isn't a huge problem, but we'd love to have a small area.
Basically, oh, they want a mosque in the college basketball arena here.
Under these stands or what have you.
And of course, what are the odds that they'll get it?
Don't do that, Dawn.
Don't look like it's never going to happen.
Here's why it'll probably happen, or one of the reasons from Investors Business Daily.
Since Keith Ellison's election to Congress as a Muslim, first Muslim elected, there has been a lot of noise in the media about the growing clout of the 8 million Muslim electorate.
The Investors Business Daily says 8 million.
There are 8 million Muslims in America now, boasted a spokeswoman for something called the Muslim Advancement Society.
She appeared on CNN to talk about what a proud day it was for her and other Muslim Americans to see a Muslim brother sworn into Congress for the first time.
Seems the size of the Muslim population in America jumps by an additional million every other year or so.
Just a couple of years ago, the consensus number bandied about on the media was 7 million.
Before 9-11, it was 6 million.
Politicians in Washington are intimidated by the figure.
They believe it.
They just see it as a voting block.
But it's a wildly inflated estimate manufactured by CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations, something the media could easily refute if they dared, simply by deconstructing CARE's unscientific methodology.
While the number of Muslims is growing thanks to higher birth rates and immigration, it's nowhere near CARE's claim.
Even the most generous, independent estimate puts it at half that size, 4 million.
Finding reliable data for Muslims in America is hard because the Census Bureau doesn't survey creed.
So, CARE, which has an agenda to Islamize America, has overfilled the vacuum to come up with its own figure.
It's hired a respected scholar, quote-unquote, by the name of Ishan Bagby to lead its study.
But Bagby not only lacks independence, he's a care board member, he's not even a trained demographer.
Worse, he admits the number he arrived at is a guesstimation.
Now, here's how he came up with it's a long, drawn-out process, but they got about 1,209 mosques.
They interviewed 416 of them.
They asked how many people were involved in their mosques in any way.
The average response is 1,625, which is probably high given that two Imams claim 50,000 when the nation's largest mosque in the D.C. suburbs has only 3,000.
Then he multiplied that fuzzy participation figure by the 1,209 mosques, came up with 2 million mosqued Muslims.
The next he multiplied that sum by a magical factor of three to capture Muslims who might not participate in mosque activities and got to the original 6 million guesstimate for the size of the Muslim population.
CARE then took the liberty of bumping up the Muslim count 7 million.
Now, Presto, it's at 8 million and climbing.
Today, 8 to 10 million Muslims live in the United States is the latest claim from Lieutenant Commander Abuena Mohammed Safal Islam, who serves as Muslim chaptain for the new Marine Mosque at Quantico, Virginia.
So now it's up to 8 to 10 million.
And this bunch at Ohio State Northwestern, they want a mosque now in the basketball arena so they can pray.
And of course, if politicians say 8 to 10 million Muslims are there, we could really make them mad by saying no.
I mean, if they'll ignore the law on illegal immigrants because they're afraid of that voting block, and that's a larger number than Muslims, then it's not a stretch to assume that by the time this is all said and done, we're going to end up with a mosque in a basketball arena at a major institution of higher learning.
It only takes one, and then we'll get more.
Mosque on campus, okay, in the basketball arena, and next will come the football stadium.
Okay, folks.
Okay.
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Back to the phones to Seattle.
And Bruce, great to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Raj.
Megan Didos from Tax Lee Renton, Washington.
Thank you.
Quick point on this caring about the future because liberals want to stop global warming.
Man-made global warming.
What would our war on terror look like if they had the same devotion to stopping that as they do something that global warming they say is going to happen, what, 150 years from now?
100.
No, It depends.
Nancy Pelosi says he's going to stop it in 10 years, which means we better stop it in 10 years or we're cooked.
Others are saying we got till 2030.
Al Gore says till 2050.
Others are saying 2100.
So the range is, I guess, 20 to 100 years or we're fried.
Right, but we got two years for the possible atomic weapons in Iran, correct?
Give or take?
Possible atomic weapons in a two years.
Well, that's something that may happen now.
They may happen next month.
We're not quite sure about that, but certainly nuclear weapons in Iran, a likelihood long before.
And by the way, you know, this is interesting.
Well, this doomsday for global warming, when will they ever say it's arrived?
They can't because it's like racism can never end, even though it does, or will, because then there's no race industry.
Right, but we have actual video footage of terrorism that already has arrived.
And they're not going after that with the same gusto.
Well, no, that's true.
But see, there's a difference.
We aren't terrorists in the sense that we fly our own planes into buildings.
But we are terrorists in the way we're destroying the planet.
So it's about American guilt.
It's about chopping America down to size.
You've got to understand who's behind these movements.
I mean, who's leading them?
And the stragglers may not have any clue.
In fact, most people, average people who get on the global warming bandwagon, do it because they want to make a difference, Mr. Limbaugh.
They want to help.
And, of course, the leaders here, they are the wild extremist ideologues who have a total political agenda with this.
I understand that they're trying.
I understand what you're saying, but they're always masking their global warming efforts under we have to stop this for the future.
Right.
But we don't have to solve terrorism for the future.
Right.
Where's the sense of urgency on a real threat to us?
Right.
Well, you know, it's a great question.
I'm not trying.
I'm trying to answer it in a way.
Oh, I know the answer.
I just wonder why it's never put to them that way.
Well, what's the question?
Well, what is the answer then?
Why waste time saying it?
We all know.
I didn't hear you.
Because they're Democrats.
They're never going to be pinned down like that.
Well, no.
Wait a minute.
Now, I'm having to.
Why are they never pinned down about some things that may harm the future, but not others?
Global warming, we have to act now, no matter how many zillions of dollars it costs.
Terrorism that could affect us in two years.
Don't worry about it.
We can pull out.
Yeah, well, nobody dares ask them the question.
Right.
That's the whole point of what I'm saying.
Okay, I got you.
I got you.
I thought you were.
I'm so used to people looking for answers from me rather than asking me rhetorical questions.
Forgive me on that.
That was a little arrogance and conceit on my part coming out.
But it's just a pattern.
You were good.
You corrected me on that.
It is a good rhetorical question.
But, of course, liberalism is a religion.
It has articles of faith like everything else.
One of the biggest articles of faith is man-made global warming.
And it overrides that and a lot of other ideological issues override other things.
And by the way, part and parcel of this, some of these people think we deserve to get hit by terrorists.
They need us cut down to say we need to find out what it feels like, what we've been doing to the rest of the world.
And Madeline Albright, by the way, thinks it's fine and dandy that these regimes are getting nukes because it stabilized the world.
It's unstable to have a lone world superpower.
A Las Vegas doctor has been implanting stem cells harvested from placentas into patients with multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and other diseases.
All of this in violation of federal law.
According to a warning letter released by health officials on Thursday, Dr. Alfred Sapps failed to properly obtain, store, test, and process the placentas, as well as screen both the suitability and the donors and the patients, given the human tissue, according to the FDA.
16 patients received the stem cells, the FDA said.
Oversight of implants of stem cells and other types of tissue is important to avoid infecting patients with viruses or bacteria.
Furthermore, Saps, the doctor, didn't allow an FDA investigator to see and copy records on his implant patients during a July 6, 2006 agency inspection of his firm, Stem Cell Pharma.
You know, this is just tip of the iceberg, folks.
This is going to get really out of control.
And I'm going to tell you why you're going to have more rogue doctors doing this.
And it's going to further mess this whole thing up.
And I'm going to tell you precisely why it's happening.
It's because Democrats like Claire McCaskill and others, they're all of the whole House Democrat caucus, their silly little stem cell embryonic stem cell bill and so forth.
John Edwards promising that Christopher Reeve will walk if Democrats are elected, if John Kerry's elected.
And of course, we can't leave Mr. Michael J. Fox out.
They're creating this false hope that embryonic stem cells are a miracle cure if we would only get going on it.
And the only reason we're not getting going on it is because Republicans don't want you cured.
Republicans want people to die.
Republicans want people to stay sick.
Republicans will criminalize people who research it.
Well, this is what you get when you start creating these false hopes and when you start creating these demands from people for their diseases to be cured, because politicians, average people, carry a lot of authority and rate.
And so do celebrities.
And if they're out there promising, if only these people get in charge, why miracles will happen?
This is just tip of the ice.
This is going to get totally out of control.
You're going to have a bunch of Frankensteins out there.
You couple this with the designer babies that are being conceived now or trying to be conceived.
The ethics in genetics is already a problem.
Mark my words, this Las Vegas doctor is just tip of the iceberg on this.
Brookings, Oregon.
Bryce, glad you called, sir.
Hey, Diddles Rush.
Hey.
I wanted to go back to your NFL thing and where all this celebration and disrespect that they're talking about came from.
And I think it started clear back in the 80s with the New York Jets and a particular lineman by the name of Mark Gaston.
Oh, yeah.
99, Mark Gaston, part of the New York SAC Exchange with Joe Kleco.
See, I couldn't remember the other guy's name, Joe Kleko.
Yeah, but he looked like a nice guy.
Klecko was pretty cool, but you're right.
Gastoneau did the first sack dance.
Yeah, right over the top of whoever, the quarterback or dumped alignment in the backfield.
That's right.
That's right.
And he started that, and that's what they do today.
Now the owners are just adding the gang signs and the black colors and everything, and it's moving up into the stands.
What do you mean, gang signs?
What do you mean?
Well, you watch some of this stuff you think is a Heisman statue or something.
Then, you know, they're not in the college anymore.
Why are they doing a Heisman pose?
Okay, so if you check with the prisons and stuff, some of these are gang signs they're flashing that they're doing after these incredible sacks that they're doing.
Wait a minute.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Why do you think the NFL players are all going to black?
Look how much more black there is.
Now, I understand that.
I know that the uniforms, all black uniforms, or alternate jerseys that have black on them.
And I know that that has roots.
Suppose I've been told it has roots in gang culture.
But wait, the behavior?
You're saying that on-field behavior is rooted in gang?
Absolutely.
How so?
These guys are not members of gangs.
They're not.
They're not.
You got it in the NBA as well that they're doing.
One particular player just got traded.
He's come right out and talked about it.
Well, I know the NBA guys have as their idols hip-hoppers.
Exactly.
And rappers and, well, there are a lot of reasons, but it basically boils down to, in my opinion, a lack of class and a lack of discipline on the part of, and these are young guys, too, for the most part.
I mean, these are out of college, if they ever went, 20s, a lot of money.
You know, this Darren Williams, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Denver on New Year's Eve after the Broncos lost a heartbreaker in the playoffs, he had been at an NBA player's Kenyon Martin at the NBA players party, and they're trying to find a scuffle happening there.
Was he involved in it or not?
He had cleaned his life up.
He'd come from poor beginnings and so forth.
But a lot of people have theories on this.
I've heard this uniform black business has roots in gang culture.
But I think also this, this is also rooted in you don't diss me.
You don't disrespect me.
And disrespect can occur with just the wrong glance.
There's a hypersensitivity to it.
But it's not, you know, it's not just black players who are engaging in this kind of behavior.
I think it's a just general decline in class.
And you can't leave out the television aspect of this.
It gets you on TV, gets you on the highlight reel.
There are many, many factors in it.
There's no question.
And it's only going to keep getting worse.
When this stuff starts costing team games in the playoffs or even the regular season, I would think somebody somewhere at the league level or at ownership, enough is enough here.
Look, we're paying you guys a lot.
You are professionals here.
This is the best you can be in football in this country.
But there's so much money flowing into it now that they may not perceive it as a problem.
And I don't know how many fans are like me and get disgusted by it.
I get disgusted by it because it always ends up affecting the outcome of the game.
In addition to just the lack of class overall, all this stuff ends up affecting the outcome.
Teams are losing games because of this kind of behavior that they otherwise would win.
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This is Deb in Coopersville, Minnesota.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Ros.
Hi.
This is Deb.
It's Coopersville, Michigan.
Oh, Snurdley doesn't.
Yeah, it's going to put MN up there.
That's Minnesota.
But Michigan's M.I.
Yes, it is.
Yeah.
Good place to be.
It's pretty cold today, though.
Good place to be.
It's pretty.
Well, it's global warming.
You only think it's cold.
Too funny.
Hey, we homeschool four kids, and we want to thank you for what you do and helping us teach our kids about political science, the right side of it.
Well, you're welcome.
And my daughters and I are heading to Washington, D.C. tonight to go to the March for Life on Monday.
And we're going to do some sightseeing, some shopping.
And we were wondering what your favorite historical site is and restaurant in Washington, D.C.
Well, I don't have a favorite restaurant in Washington because I haven't eaten in one, and I don't go there enough.
I can't remember the last restaurant I ate in Washington.
Okay.
Wait.
Yes, I can.
It was 1992, and it was the Old Ebbett Grill.
Oh, that's on our list.
Someone else has suggested that.
Yeah, it's not far from the White House.
Right.
I'll tell you why.
I was going, that was the day I went to the White House to have dinner with President Bush 41, and I had heard that he and his wife Barbara ate like birds, so I was advised to go eat a real dinner before I showed up.
And I went into the Old Ebbett Grill with a friend.
As for historical sites, my God, you're not going to have enough time to see them all.
For me, aside from the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Washington Monument, of course, I just go nuts over the Air and Space Museum.
Okay.
I just, that place is just fascinating to me.
And they've recently, well, within a couple of years, three years, expanded it.
It's part of the Smithsonian.
Yes.
And it's a shame you can't get out to Mount Vernon, George Washington's home.
You would not believe what they have done to revive this place as a historical and educational center.
It would literally blow your mind.
What else did you do?
Well, you got the war memorials.
You've got the Vietnam and Korean and World War II memorials.
Yeah, we're taking a night tour of all those.
Yeah, well, you're doing all this stuff.
Well, we just wanted to know what your favorite thing was.
Well, geez.
You know, the National Archives, you're going to see the actual Constitution.
Oh, cool.
Place where Sandy Burglar stole the documents.
Oh.
In his socks is a good place to see.
You might want to go to Fort Marcy Park, see if you get out alive.
Okay.
No, but I to the Air Space Museum, they've got items in there that I could spend all day in there.
Okay, well, thank you very much.
We're looking forward to a good time.
The Lincoln Bedroom would be nice, but unfortunately, you need an invitation to get in there.
Oh, yeah, I don't think I want to take my daughters there.
This administration, wait till the next Democrat, and you can buy your way in for $100,000.
I think I'll pass.
All right.
Well, have fun.
Thank you.
You went.
Thank you.
Okay, Deb, and we'll be back.
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Bonita Springs, Florida.
This is Ian.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush Mega Dittos from beautiful Southwest Florida.
Thank you, sir.
Enjoying the lovely sunshine yet again.
Yes.
And about 80 degrees while the rest of the country's in the deep freeze of global warming.
Absolutely.
Well, everybody has to be somewhere.
You and me are places that are nice to be.
Absolutely.
Screw them.
Hey, wanted to take you back to the classlessness of the NFL.
I think it comes back to two items in particular.
One, I don't think a lot of these guys have ever had anyone around them to say no.
And two, I think a good majority of them forget that they play a game to make a living.
You know, I hear this, and I'm going to say it is, it's a game because at the end of the day, the future of the country doesn't depend on it and that sort of thing.
But I'll tell you something.
You ever been on the sideline of an NFL game?
NFL, no, college, yes.
Well, it's not the same.
Folks, we sit here, we talk about this from our distance as fans, but you don't know how tough these guys are.
You and I wouldn't last two plays out there.
Some wouldn't last one.
Just the collision on the offensive line in a running play would end your ability to walk.
These guys are so tough.
So it's a game, but I mean, they've got very little time to make their money.
They can end their career in an injury in a split second.
It's a game, yeah, but this is a tough guy's game.
This is a real man's game.
And that's it attracts real guys.
And that's, you know, part of the part of the culture problem here.
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