No, you tell them, you tell them I don't want to be harassed during the middle of the show about stuff like this, and they know it, and you're just helping them harass me.
So you tell them that I'm blowing them off.
Greetings.
I'm sorry about that, folks.
This always happens.
Take care of this stuff in front of you in a distance and various things.
It's the EIB Network and El Rush Bow, the fastest three hours in media.
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According to Sky News in the UK, our planet is just five years away from climate change catastrophe, but all is not lost because it can still be saved.
This, according to a new report, the Worldwide Fund for Nature warns governments they have until 2012 to plant the seeds of change and make positive moves to limit carbon emissions.
If they fail to do so, the WWF's vision for 2050 warns generations to come will have to live with the compromises and hardships caused by their inability to act.
We've heard this over at Ted Danson, 1988.
We don't clean up the oceans, we get 10 years, we will not recover.
It's just used to be they say 10 years.
Now it's five.
We only got five years.
Al Gore is out there putting forth the same stuff.
And the drive-bys, Time Magazine's got a story.
Will he run?
Will he run?
He's set up perfectly to run.
I'm telling you, I'm not happy out there with their field either.
I mean, not all that happy with Obama.
I don't think he's inexperienced, not all that happy with Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Some of Martin, the Democrats, said Time magazine's really been pushing alternatives to Mrs. Bill Clinton.
They've been pushing Obama big time.
Now they're well, Obama's fading into polls.
It's time to maybe go to the ace in the hole.
That would be Al Gore, going to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
It's going to bum me out.
I mean, I don't expect to win.
It's just an honor to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I firmly believe I've done far more for world peace and liberty and freedom than Al Gore has with his global warming move.
But we all know the Nobel Peace Prize is not about peace.
It's about advancing, it's about advancing liberalism.
Now, I want to try to be as brief with this as I can.
I mentioned this at the beginning of the program.
I have, throughout the history of this program, starting in 1988, I have, I love to share my passions, and I have shared with the audience because we have a connection, you and I.
I mean, I'm not just here pontificating and you out listening.
This is not a classroom where you're students and you just sit there and listen.
There is an interactivity here, and not just based on the phone calls.
We have, we work well together.
We have a connection.
And part of that is that, you know, within the limits that I've set for myself, it makes sense.
I divulge some of the things I do in my personal life because those are things I try to do that I enjoy.
I've gotten to a very, very rare place in life.
And I wish everybody could get there.
It is something that sadly very few people ever achieve or have happened to them.
And that is that for all intents and purposes, I don't have to do anything I don't want to do professionally, personally, you name it.
There are occasionally things that we all have obligations and so forth.
But I mean, I don't have to take on something I really despise because I have no choice.
And so I have reached a point where I enjoy life.
I enjoy being an American.
I enjoy the opportunities.
I enjoy being able to go places and see things and meet people.
And when I do this, I enjoy coming back here to the Golden EIB microphone and sharing it with you.
Now, something came up yesterday after the program because I spent some time on yesterday's program talking about those things and not as much time devoted to, quote unquote, the issues.
And there's been this nagging little group of people, probably Ron Paul supporters, every time I do this, stick to the issue, stick to the issue.
And it's a small group of people, but they're vocal and they're out there each and every time.
And I've mentioned this to you on previous occasions.
Yesterday, some people said, you know, you didn't spend as much time on the issues.
It talked about going to Oakmont, and other people wrote, well, how did you play it?
Tell us more about it.
How about 288-yard 281-yard par 3?
They do have a 281-yard par 3 at Oakmont for the U.S. Open from the Tips.
I didn't play the Tips.
We played the Blues, which are two sets of T's up.
We played about 6,800 yards.
I think the whole course, 72 or 74.
Don't remember.
But it's the hardest golf course I've ever played.
And it made me appreciate the talent and skills of professional golfers more than any other course that I've played.
But I had a great time.
And I met the membership.
I said, come back and tell people this.
And there's a couple other personal things.
Plus, there's a story about running into Bill Clinton last night.
And it got me to thinking.
It got me wondering.
We hear all the talk about the angst that permeates our culture, that there's a general malaise or unhappiness.
People are just, they're on edge.
The war has people uneasy.
For whatever reason, we're not winning it fast enough.
We're losing it.
Whatever.
It just doesn't seem.
We've got all of this talk about this food is going to kill us.
That's going to kill us.
So a lot of people are on edge.
A lot of people are sort of, this is the theory anyway.
A lot of people are tense out there, nervous.
And here I come on the radio, happy-go-lucky, holly and jolly and all this, and just having a good time with my life as much as I can, sharing that with you.
And somebody said to me, well, you know, it's one of the problems.
People want to be comfortable in their misery.
And when you don't sound miserable, they think you're not in touch.
They think that you may not really understand what their lives are like every day.
And it's sort of a repeat of the argument, you know, I've lost touch.
That comes up now and then too.
I've always looked at this a little different way.
I've had periods of time in my life where I go through angst, and I have days where I go through it, but I don't want to live that way.
And I don't want it to be what defines my attitude.
And I don't want to go through the news every day and have to come in here.
By the way, I've never tried to relate to you.
I've never tried to understand what it is you want to hear and say it.
I do have empathy when it comes to the kind of subjects issue-wise, but in terms of, you know, I don't moisten the finger, stick it in the air, and figure out what you want.
I'm not a politician.
I don't do polls to find out what I should say or what I should wear or any of that.
But it got me to thinking, is it really that bad out there?
Among us, now I know that liberals and a Democrat are in a constant state of agitation, a constant state of misery.
That's their natural existence, though.
They're born that way, and they do seek out people who are suffering in the same manner.
Suffering, they want to suffer.
They want to be made to feel like they are suffering and life is just impossible.
And they blame everybody but themselves for their plight.
I've always tried to be optimistic within reason, not falsely so.
I've always tried to be of good cheer and laugh and have fun because I think that that is in itself inspirational and motivational.
And we only get one life.
And we're all raised in different ways as to how we should live it.
Some of us have been raised deeply religious.
There's virtue in suffering.
There's virtue in a hard life because it's conditioning, it trains, prepares, it's real, and there's rewards for it later in life.
My grandfather, who was a great, great, great man, he loved his work.
And he did his family time was his enjoyment of lifetime.
They worked, home, office, day and night, traveled on business and this sort of stuff.
He's always at home, though, for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the holidays, Easter.
And his view was that there's plenty of time to have fun after you have completed the serious part of your life, which is your work.
That combining those two things would lead to a loss of focus on one's work because obviously people like fun more than work unless your work is your fun.
In my case, that's what happened.
That's another very fortunate thing for me.
And so I grew up, even going on vacation, feeling guilty.
Well, I really shouldn't be enjoying myself.
This is not right.
Little tinges of it.
I still did it.
You know, still went on the vacations.
I still took them and so forth.
There's some of that that still happens.
Now, on Tuesday, when I was at Oakmont, I said, audience is not going to like this.
Even when they just did, I've taken a lot of single days and so on.
I know I'm very sensitive to this, but at the same time, we only get one, and it needs to be as diverse and well-rounded as you can make it, because you want to, I don't believe life is to be suffered.
I don't believe that's the intention of life.
I don't believe that's the intention of creation.
It's a sad reality for all too many people, but it isn't necessary.
It's like a certain economic circumstance is not permanent, doesn't have to be permanent.
People have more power over their lives than they know.
They're not raised with the notion they have power.
We're raised with the notion, well, we go to school and we're in prison because the teacher's the boss, the principal's the boss.
At home, the parents are the boss.
And our younger years are raised with the whole notion of we don't have any choices.
We're kids.
We can't do anything.
We can't even get answers to questions.
It's just yes or no and do what I say.
That conditions you trains you.
And you grow up.
Then you work for the boss.
Everybody has a boss.
There's always an authority.
You see a cop cart.
Uh-oh, slow down.
Whatever.
If I got my driver's life, all of these things.
And people end up can very easily feel trapped in thinking that they're very tight confines and boundaries that trap them, even that they're stuck in things they don't want to do.
But you have more power than you know.
You have all kinds of ability to change your life and take control of it.
That's change.
Change is new.
Change is difficult.
And taking control is assuming responsibility.
And it's always easy to fall back on, well, I couldn't get that done because a boss wouldn't let me offer.
I couldn't get that done because it rained.
So the yard's growing up for another five minutes, whatever.
It's tough to take full responsibility.
Talk to people who have been an employee that go down and own their own business.
And you ask them how much their life, even if they didn't make as much money at first, you ask them how much their life improved because the feeling of being in control, of having the power over your future.
I mean, nobody's totally scot-free in this way, but there's a lot more power that more people have.
I'm simply trying to take advantage of the opportunities that have been presented to me or that I have created.
And I'm not trying to laud it over anybody.
I'm genuinely trying to share it.
And if it's a problem, because there's so much angst and so much misery And I'm losing my ability to relate to and understand the audience.
That's tough because I've, when I've been talking, not listening to people on the radio, but throughout wherever you are in life, there's always somebody who's done more, who goes more places, who has more money.
Always.
I've always been inspired by that.
I've always, boy, that would be fun to do, fun to be able to do.
One of the things I've been working for.
I've been in this business for 40 years, minus five years at the Kansas City Royals.
I still haven't, by the way, found any decent national anthem singers since I left.
And that was 1983.
So I wanted to just put this out on the table because some people it is easy to relate to.
If a host comes on and is mad and in a foul humor, yeah, that's how I feel.
I'm mad as hell and so forth.
If I am that way on a particular day, I tell you.
But maybe I should say I'm sorry for enjoying life.
No, that's not me.
Not going to do that.
And who knows?
I may not be enjoying it tomorrow.
You never know what's going to happen, folks, and that's why.
Now, there's hope that I will be miserable tomorrow.
There's hope that I'll be miserable next week.
Hope that I'll be miserable in November of 08.
There's hope that I will lose this perch of joy and joviality and rejoin you later on down the road.
Be back after this.
I tell you the Clintons, they just get support from all over the place.
Jenna Jameson is the most recent famous American to come out and endorse Hillary Clinton.
Jenna Jameson, been called the world's most famous porn star, is the author of the New York Times bestseller, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, talked about Hillary Clinton in an interview with PR.com on May 17th.
That's today.
This is the 17th, correct?
Question, who's your favorite Democrat frontrunner for 2008, Obama, Hillary, or John Edwards?
And Jenna Jamieson, the world's most famous porn star, said, I love Hillary.
I think in some ways she's pretty conservative for a Democrat, but I would love to have a woman in office.
I think it'd be a step in the right direction for our country, and there'd be less focus on war, more focus on bettering society.
Well, what about you find the climate of the adult industry changes when there's a Republican administration versus Democrat?
Oh, absolutely, she said.
Jenna Jameson, the world's most famous porn star who has endorsed Hillary, said the Clinton administration was the best years for the adult industry.
And I wish that Clinton would run again.
Love that.
Doug and Bonita Springs, Florida.
Nice to have you on the program.
Megadillo's Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Last hour you mentioned that President Bush has become a little bit more partisan lately.
And I just had a general question.
Do you think politicians advance their cause better by attacking the other side or by pointing out the benefits and strengths of their own positions?
I think you got to do both because when you're attacking the Democrats, you're defending yourself the way they've been on the rampage.
Republicans need to fight back on some of this stuff.
I'm talking about the guys running for office, the political aspirants.
But at the same time, you do have to have an agenda.
You have to give people reason to vote for you so that you have a mandate.
People respond to ideas.
You know, Reagan, two landslides, and the Libs all said, well, that's just slick marketing and packaging.
The American people were fooled.
Nope.
People loved Ronald Reagan personally.
They heard him.
He communicated.
They knew what his policies were.
Very simple.
Cut taxes, rebuild the military, and wipe out the Soviet Union.
Guess what?
Yeah, but like on the Iraq war, all you hear is the Democrats attacked.
They don't have any idea of what to do.
And the Republicans, they never play up the strengths of the outcome of all the people.
Oh, because they're scared.
They're scared because they believe that the will of the people, it's easy for them.
This kind of makes me mad.
The Republicans are saying, yeah, we lost the House.
We lost House Senate because of Iraq.
No, you didn't lose it because of Iraq.
It's a convenient little excuse because when they say we lost it because of Iraq, they're shuffling the blame for their loss on Bush.
The Democrats do not have a plan for Iraq.
You say, yes, they do.
It's called defeat.
And their plan for Iraq having us get out of there is going to.
Ed Koch has a column.
Ed Democrat.
Ed Koch has a column today that if they succeed in defeating the United States, if the Democrats succeed in defeating the United States military, pulling them out of there, we are going to face 20, 30 years of hell in this country from the militant Islamists who are going to be so emboldened.
Democrats don't think that'll happen.
They must not think that'll happen.
They must think that the way to win this is to lose it.
They must.
Anyway, you can say one of my biggest beats for the debate last night was there wasn't nearly enough criticism of Democrats.
Now, I know the host and the moderators try to limit that because it's a Republican primary, but the answer to your question is both.
The dangers posed by Democrat success need to be spelled out.
The pitfalls, the problems, the sunsetting of tax cuts, the welcoming back of an even, if you think the Republicans have been spending like nuts, wait till the Democrats get control, folks.
I mean, you may think it's bad out there now, but you say it can't get any worse.
It can.
And you combine massive new spending with the termination of the tax cuts, which is going to add up to a tax increase.
You combine that with the resulting economic slowdown.
If you give them full reins on power to start messing around with the economy based on global warming, it can most certainly get worse.
And the Republicans have a duty, I would think, to spell this out.
You don't have to personally attack Democrats to do it.
This is about ideas.
I believe people respond to ideas.
I think people love learning.
I think people like being exposed to actual thoughts that they can learn from that inspires them and motivates them because that's what's going to keep them inspired and motivated through the election.
You just can't run around ripping Democrats for the sake of it.
There has to be a reason to it, and there's plenty of reason.
And there's plenty of substantive reasons to criticize and attack Democrats and their ideas and policies.
The primary one is they're trying to hide what their real ideas are from everybody.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
That's Bo Diddley.
We got some bad news about Bo Diddley.
He was performing somewhere in Colorado and suffered a stroke.
He is in the hospital.
He's in intensive care in Omaha.
I don't have a story right in front of me.
I guess it's in Creighton, the Creighton Hospital.
And the stroke affected a left side of his brain, which speech and speech recognition.
He's 78 years old.
And he's always been a big friend of the show.
I was sorry to see that, but we played the bump here, and I wanted to acknowledge that.
Now, I was just talking about spending.
I have a radical idea.
You know, all this complaining that's going on out there about the deficit, the deficit's too high.
We're back.
All these things are cyclical and they repeat.
And now we've got to do something about the deficit.
And then people get all worried about it.
You, you get all worried about, oh, the deficit.
Oh, my God.
What's going to happen to interest rates?
Oh, the national debt.
Oh, the Chinese own it all.
Oh, what are the.
And you just keep churning out there.
Well, I can eliminate the deficit and create a surplus overnight.
I'll tell you how to do it.
It's radical.
Never happened, but I can tell you how to do it.
If I were in charge, I would do it.
They just announced, the Democrats just announced their new budget, $2.9 trillion.
A figure we cannot conceive.
The human mind cannot conceive that amount of money.
And yet, with the introduction of every new budget figure, there are cuts, draconian cuts.
Kids are going to starve at school.
By the way, we're adding a school dinner program simply.
I've got to find that school dinner program now, in addition to school lunch and school break.
Where's that?
Slow.
No, it's not a joke.
I've got it somewhere here in the stack.
I'll try to find it.
School dinner somewhere.
At any rate, the budget, $2.9 trillion.
All we would have to do to eliminate the deficit is cut spending to $2.6 trillion.
It's just am.
Instead of a deficit, we have a surplus.
Well, you say, oh, well, Rush, we can't do that.
Yes, we most certainly could.
We won't, but we most certainly could cut spending from $2.9 to $2.6 trillion.
It's in there.
All this redundancy and stuff, they say it's all titled up, bottled up at entitlements.
It's in there, and we could do it.
Why, we can cut back everywhere else, folks.
We can cut back on trans fats.
Why, we can ban trans fats.
Why, we can cut back on smoking.
We can ban smoking.
We can cut back on everything.
We can cut down on eating food.
Any number of things that we can do.
And they tell us all the global warming people are telling us we've got to cut back on our lifestyles.
We've got to cut back our carbon footprint.
We've got to drive smaller cars.
We've got to cut back.
They keep telling us we've got to cut back.
Government's the only place it can't cut back.
It's a tough sell because so many people are dependent on government.
Over half the population gets some sort of a check from the government every month.
That's by design, by the way.
So the government is one, people just look at it with a reverence.
Oh, no, they can't cut government.
Where would we be without the government?
Well, nobody's suggesting we eliminate it.
The idea that it is the one entity that's exempt from cutting back is absurd.
Here's Barry, Watertown, Connecticut.
You're next, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you.
Like you, I am frustrated with the people who don't understand the pricing of oil and they look to point blame.
And I think that they just feel helpless with the commodity nature of oil and how on a whim it can jump up and down.
And I have a thought whereby we can use that dynamic to our advantage.
We can create the whim in the marketplace that turns prices down in our favor.
And it's very simple.
If today we passed all kinds of laws about how we were going to take oil out of our own soil in Alaska, we were going to explore the Gulf and we had a mandate of how many millions of barrels we were going to get out of our own soil per day at some future date, we wouldn't have to put one shovel in the ground and tomorrow the commodity price of oil would dive down, I bet.
We could save prices on gas quicker than any other method of trying to squeeze it out of the corporations or however else they feel they want to do it.
Hmm.
I missed some of that because the computer that transcribes what you're saying crashed and it crashed right when you said how on a whim it can jump up.
You were talking about the Public reacting to these things that creates fear of things going up and down.
Briefly, I hate to do it.
Run that by me again one more time.
We can use the dynamic of commodity pricing to our advantage.
If we do something like propose legislation to begin drilling at Anwar or exploring for oil or have a unified determination by law to extract how many millions of barrels of oil a day out of our own soil, and we pass that legislation today, tomorrow the world price would drop.
And that would be the quickest way to reduce prices rather than trying to.
Oh, well, yeah, yes, yes, yeah.
But, you know, just proposing the legislation would not accomplish that.
It has to pass.
Well, I'm talking about the problem.
No, no, no, wait.
When you talk about affecting the markets, when the Democrats and the environmentalists rev up to just the proposal, that's going to alert the markets.
Anything going to happen in the U.S.
And the price is going to go up.
Anything that can cause the price to go up, like fear of Ahmadinejad nuking Israel, there's all kinds of things out there that cause the futures market to go crazy, the commodities market.
And what we really need to do is do the drilling.
What we really need to do the exploration and become more independent.
I hear the Democrats talking.
We need energy independence.
We never do anything to actually get us there.
Well, and this is my point.
I'm not saying stop short of doing it, but I'm saying many people probably feel that we could propose that, we could start to drill it, but we're still never going to see that oil or that gasoline to impact our supply.
I'm saying that if we are determined we're unified and we make a pledge and pass it, then the world price is going to have to recognize it and supply and demand would take over.
And I agree with you that, you know, perhaps technology and alternate fuels one day are going to save us, but in the interim, we need a lot of oil, and it's up to the question is what do we want to pay for it.
Well, that's I know the interesting thing about what you said, I'm more interested in tracking what it is that causes the jitters for people on the price of gasoline.
And frankly, I'm not buying the notion that everybody's out there wringing their hands over it in the first place.
I look at the driving statistics.
Driving is up.
Gasoline consumption is up.
All of these fears, these stories about angst among drivers, I don't believe it exists to the extent that it's being reported.
I think drive-buys report things through their political prism.
But as to your specific, the futures market might bid down the price based on a future increase in supply that might also cause them to bid up the price to get as much as they could before it comes online.
I understand what you're saying.
You're using market forces to bring down the price rather than people, you know, Exxon and chill.
They ought to just lower the price out of fairness.
And your point is valid, and I appreciate it.
Henry in Warren, Michigan.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Rush, it's a great honor and pleasure to be on the radio with you, and thank you for taking the call.
Thank you.
First of all, and four quick points.
I'm a listener since 88 when you were still on at only two hours.
And I remember one of your first calls, we had an unemployed, a depressed black man that the next day called and you had a guy offer him a job.
Do you remember that one particular call?
Yes, well, maybe not that specific, but that's happened a lot of times on this program.
Yes, and that's what got me to listening to you.
And it was like in August of 88 when you first started.
Yeah, that's right.
That's when it all started.
That's when it happened.
History was made that day.
And I'll tell you what, I don't have an older brother, but in many respects, I look to you as my older brother, and kind of like you listened to your dad.
I kind of listened to you and kind of grew more conservative as I've taken on a lot of ideas that you brought up.
And I'm drinking coffee out of a super soaker-induced rush mug, if you remember those.
Absolutely.
Okay.
What I wanted to say is this.
I fear today the country, the U.S., is going to go 100% socialist from a political standpoint because of the floodgates, because you import a mindset.
And that's what they've actually done now is with this law, if it actually gets signed by Bush, I think we're going to go economically.
We're going to be like Europe.
What are we talking about?
Socialistic.
Hold it.
Hold it.
What are we talking about?
You're talking about the immigration bill?
Yes.
Okay.
So we're importing socialism.
In effect, we're giving the last vestiges of a 50-50 country.
It's now going to split and it's going to turn over to the socialist side.
Yeah, but we're also exporting a lot of liberalism and screwing up the countries we're competing with out there.
Well, I don't know about that.
Yes, we are.
We've been doing it for a long time.
But wait till the Chinese get their own version of the NAGs.
It's going to happen.
Okay.
Last question.
Last real quick point.
I think I'm having a Reagan moment.
Remember when Reagan said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left him?
I had that same moment.
The Republic GOP has just left us, and they're going to hear silence on voting day because a lot of us who volunteered last couple of elections that wrote checks and that were voting Republican are just going to wave at the guys coming to the door and saying go somewhere else.
No GOP lives here.
Not only, if this goes through as is, the Republican Party in 08 could well be doomed, but so could we as a country.
In the sense that if, because I have this great fear that the first thing that's going to go by the wayside in this immigration bill is the whole concept of border security.
The signs are there.
The fence is only going to be so big.
They'll do cursory roundups, tell us the big numbers.
It's going to be easier for malcontents.
I'm not talking about Mexicans.
I'm talking about terrorists to get in here.
And with the relaxation here, with loss of incentive to control the border and even have a definition of legal and illegal.
Adam, I'm troubled by it.
I don't think the country's finished yet because I don't think the American people are going to put up with a country being finished.
And I know that I, as host, I'm not going to put up with the country being finished because there's nowhere else I want to live.
So we're going to do everything we can to save the country, and I think we will.
But you can do that a lot of ways other than just voting for people.
You've got a lot more power in your life than just who you vote for because you can't win every election.
And if you start losing them and you get bent out of shape over losing every election, you're defining your life by that.
And there's much, much more to life than who wins or loses elections, believe me.
That's why my success is not defined by who wins elections.
Never has been, nor is it my objective.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
I have said over and over again, ladies and gentlemen, don't doubt me.
Do not doubt me.
Mere moments ago, I referenced a story in the stack about school dinners.
They upstart Snerdley on the IFB.
It's a joke, right?
It's a joke.
Here's the story.
It's from newjersey.com, nj.com.
The Jersey Journal is from Hoboken, Mr. Snerdley, your old stomping grounds.
The Community Food Bank of New Jersey, in conjunction with the Boys and Girls Club of Hudson County, has opened a kids' cafe.
The second such meal program in Hudson County, the 10th in New Jersey.
It's on Jefferson Street in the Miles Square City.
And beginning, this is from this past Monday.
So beginning this past Monday on the 14th of May, They're going to serve free meals five evenings a week to low-income children active in after-school programs where they're partnered.
Following the after-school program activities, parents can allow children to stay at school and have dinners, said Mira Nigro, the food bank's director of communications.
The program, under the auspices of America's Second Harvest, that's capitalized, ASH would be the acronym.
It's a national food bank network.
Was designed to combat hunger during the summer months when school lunch programs are unavailable and children are more susceptible to malnutrition.
That's what it says.
I'm just reading it to you there.
Malnutrition sets in in New Jersey in the summertime when the schools aren't open.
Big problem out there participating children, typically between the ages of six and twelve.
A core focus of the program is to provide meals that are both nutritious and and this is crucial culturally diverse.
Culturally diverse, free.
Well, you can imagine what a culturally culturally diverse meal is.
One night you eat Chinese.
The next night you eat Italian.
The next night you eat hummus.
Next night you eat couscous.
Next night fried goat's eyes.
Next night steamed sea lion claws.
The next night frozen raccoon.
Who knows it's.
All kinds of uh different meals.
And uh, that's that's uh starting in.
Uh in Hoboken.
Uh, here is Dave in Houston.
Dave, thanks for waiting.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
It's an honor and pleasure to speak with you, rush.
Thank you sir.
Uh, I was just kind of comparing, you know, Ronald Reagan and Tip O'neal.
You know you knew to Reagen and Tip O' Neil had a little more honor and a little more morals than you know Clinton did.
But after hours you just got together and you enjoyed yourselves.
You know we didn't get together.
Now, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
This is not Tip O' Neil and Reagan.
They got together for a beer after a hard day arguing over social security.
That's not what this was.
I've never argued, but this was a chance meeting.
Well, I don't, actually I don't believe in coincidence uh, with the Clintons.
I don't.
I'm not sure this is a chance meeting.
Uh made this reservation last friday.
All kinds of chances to find out that i'm going to be there.
So, but it was.
It was, for all intents and purposes, a chance.
He's walking in, sees me, stops at table, come together.
You can do it after hours.
You know you can go there and relax and, you know, enjoy company of somebody else on the opposite side.
You know where Clinton's looking for.
You know a buddy to hang out with.
You know whereas, like uh, the mayor from L A or whatever, you know just hang out or whatever, enjoy themselves afterwards.
And it was a chance meeting for you guys.
But I'm just comparing you to Reagan.
After hours you can just turn it off and just enjoy the company.
New York.
Yeah, I was there with him.
That was a social occasion.
I was not out there on any kind of a work or political mission out there.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Speaking of which, I don't have much time to get this in there.
The New York Post were talking about the school dinners.
When are we going to start school cocktail parties?
If we start school cocktails, now that's something, folks, that I can really look forward to because you've got to have cocktails before dinner.
School cocktail parties.
They're trying to refine these kids and educate them.
Talk about diversity.
Think of the different kinds of adult beverages we can expose them to, or at least, well, their parents could show up for the cocktail party.
School cocktail.
New York Post has a story today about grocery stores, bodegas, storefronts, and how the difference, what the difference is in the food in Harlem versus the Upper East Side.
And, of course, in the grocery stores, the bodegas in Harlem, it's all dangerously high in fat, calories, fried stuff, and the upper East side much, much healthier.
Uh I, I need to print out this graphic to get the the details so that I can read it, but it's uh.
They attribute the difference to uh uh, not as much interest in the health of African Americans on the part of uh food business.
Back after this.
Yes, I am going out to dinner tonight And it's entirely possible I could run into Castro.
Who knows?
I mean, he might be here getting medical coverage, medical treatment, meeting with Michael Moore.