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June 1, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 1, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hubba hubba and dooba-duba.
Greetings, my good friends, loyal and trusted audience.
I am well-known radio rack and tour Rush Limbaugh, ready to perform broadcast excellence on Friday, and you know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
Oh, yes, the day we all look forward to here, especially Mr. Snurdly makes his job much easier screening the calls in there.
Monday through Thursday, we talk about things I care about, and that's it.
I'm not going to sit here and talk about things I'm bored with, because I'll sound bored and nobody's going to want to listen.
But on Friday, I cast all that aside, throw it out the window, and take one of the hugest career risks known to exist in major American media.
And that is turning over the content of the program when we go to the phone calls to you.
People who don't know how to do this.
Rank amateurs.
Lovable rank amateurs.
I don't mean this as an insult, but we call them as they are.
So you can talk about whatever you want is the bottom line.
The telephone number, 800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
You know, we keep seeing more and more of these type of stories.
The Washington Post has it today.
Sunni insurgents battle in Baghdad.
Residents of western neighborhood join groups fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Al-Qaeda in this story is reputedly victimized by gets its own roadside bomb.
Problems arose on Tuesday when the Islamic Army, a powerful Sunni insurgent group, posted a statement at a local mosque criticizing al-Qaeda in Iraq for killing dozens of other Sunnis in Fallujah and Baghdad.
Late Wednesday afternoon, according to residents reached by phone who would not be quoted by name for security reasons, you notice there's a whole lot of that going on in the media.
A bunch of people that won't give their names.
An armed group scrawled graffiti on a scroll wall reading, down with al-Qaeda, long live the honest resistance.
When al-Qaeda and Iraq members came to wipe away the writing, a roadside bomb exploded nearby, killing three of them.
I may wonder, why haven't we done our own roadside bombs?
Well, apparently it's happening now.
Roadside bomb wiped out three al-Qaeda members.
So what's happening here, and there are more and more of these kinds of stories, Sunnis are turning on al-Qaeda, and the liberals are still out there talking about civil war with the Sunnis versus the Shia.
And the Sunnis, the Iraqis are getting more and more fed up with it.
Get this story, folks, from the UK.
Asking pupils to put their hands up when they think they know the answer to a question in class could make quiet children fall behind, according to government advice.
I kid you not.
Researchers have identified a group of youngsters between 7 and 11 who struggle to keep up with classmates despite doing well in previous years.
Ministers published a report advising scrolls, how to help those so-called invisible children who often try to avoid drawing attention to themselves during lessons.
So asking kids to raise their hands.
Who knows the answer?
I do, I do.
And no, tell me, I know that.
That's not good because that humiliates the kids that don't know the answer or who don't want to raise their hand because they don't want to have any attention.
Call to them.
It's what's what's yeah, the more harmful circumstance here is when you don't know the answer.
My God, I'll tell you what.
We had a long, protracted, and I must say, pretty good monologue yesterday on this show in the second hour about fear and about the country and where we are and so forth.
This kind of stuff is just taking over, and we're turning kids into these little waifs that we think are incapable of accomplishing anything.
We're babying them.
We are not pushing them.
I know this is the UK, but this is going to, the liberals are liberals everywhere.
It doesn't matter.
And they, as you know, have infested education, public education, both in the administrative ranks as well as not all, but many of the teachers.
And this reminds me of that story that I tell a lot.
A 26-year-old teacher on a Saturday afternoon in a water volleyball game got in a heated argument with this woman about they were pushing our kids too fast.
We're pushing them too hard or working them too hard or trying to make them learn too much too soon.
And we have to slow down.
And so it's just the exact opposite.
When you're young is when you have the energy and the ability to do all of this.
I read a column by Christina Hoff Summers, I think it was in the New York Post yesterday, and she was doing a book review.
Two guys have written a book.
I'm going to have to find this.
I should have printed it out and I didn't.
Because I knew I wasn't going to get to it because of immigration.
But two guys have written a book on what it's like to be a guy, how to make the perfect paper airplane, how to get your G.I. Joe better to be just typical boy stuff.
And it is selling like hotcakes wherever it's available.
I'll get the title for you.
And it's an offshoot of what's happening.
And Christina Hoff Summers has written about this.
She's got her own book about it: about how public education is totally demasculating boys all the way up through college.
Everything is about girls in this because the girls are victims.
They've been discriminated against all these years.
Feminist, feminist agenda.
I'll find the name of that before the program is over and pass it on to you.
From the Los Angeles Times today.
Wait a minute.
That's not the one I want.
That's not the one.
This is the one I want.
Hang on, folks.
Just make sure that there's not.
Yeah, this is the one I want.
The California Senate.
California Senate voted yesterday to bar, prevent employers from denying promotions or raises to workers who juggle job duties with the demands of caring for children, sick spouses, or aging parents.
One of the first such efforts in the country, the measure would add familial status to the categories of discrimination banned by the state's Fair Employment and Housing Act.
Now, that law already protects workers from discrimination based on factors like disabilities, national origin, marital status, age, and sexual orientation.
But as the number of working single parents in two-income households has increased, so have complaints that employers act against workers with caregiving responsibilities.
Derek Tissinger was passed over for a promotion to captain in the Bakersfield Fire Department after his chief complaint he was taking too many sick days and trading shifts too often in order to raise his three children of whom he had custody.
In one evaluation, a chief had written, I encourage Derek to continue to explore alternative methods of providing child care so that he can work as much as possible with his assigned crew.
He won $75,000 from a jury, but an appeals court threw it out, ruling that California law didn't bar employers from taking personal duties into account.
So California said it's not going to have that.
So you can't deny promotion or raises based on a worker's family responsibilities that affect their work.
Hello, France.
They tried this in France.
This didn't work.
The new president over there is going to have to get rid of it.
You ought to go talk to employers about this.
I know most people hate the boss.
It's a natural phenomenon of human nature.
But the boss, you know, has responsibilities too, and that is certain work needs to get done.
If you can't do it, things have to be accommodated.
Your work has to be done.
That's why you have the job.
You don't have the job for health care.
You don't have your job.
The community is in good shape.
You don't have a job for unemployment insurance.
You have a job because somebody needs the work you are doing accomplished.
And if you are not the one that's going to accomplish it, they have to get somebody to do it.
I mean, it's just that simple.
And now people are going to be, well, I need a raise.
I need a promotion.
Well, I've been really good with my family.
Well, yeah, people assume these responsibilities and then want somebody else to actually take over and fulfill them.
So stuff's going to continue to happen here, folks.
California, some of the stuff coming out of the legislature, the assembly out there is just off the wall.
And this is the latest example.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We will continue.
Lots to do here on Open Line Friday, including talking to you.
That's coming up right after this.
You know, I just got nabbed here, folks.
I had on my computer screen the DVD of the upcoming opening sketch for Sunday night's half-hour news hour, the one I taped in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago.
And I forgot it was up there.
Just left it up and I checked the email during the break.
Rush, are you sitting there with a couple of naked women?
You have pictures of naked women on your computer.
No, they're not naked.
They're scandally clad.
I've taken the picture down.
I understand that this could be offensive to some, but it's the opening sketch.
I'm president, of course, on this show, the half-hour news hour.
It's 10 o'clock on Sunday night in the Fox News Channel, and I'm down at Cabo Wabo on a working vacation, which is a bar down in Cabo San Lucas.
Cabo Waba, it's Van Halen's bar.
And I'm not going to tell you about it, but I had it up there.
I was watching it.
I just got it at FedEx this morning, and I was watching it.
It came out.
I mean, it's so hilarious it hurts.
Now, the name of that book, folks, that I was thinking about is The Dangerous Book for Boys.
It's by Khan and Hal Iggilden.
I-G-G-U-L-D-E-N.
Khan and Hal Iggilden.
And they're obviously not illegal immigrants.
And this book is just, it's going, it's going wildfire out there because it's so needed.
It's just these two guys have written a book, and they call it dangerous because it's purely boy things.
And nothing subversive about it.
There's nothing violent about it.
It's how to make the best paper airplane in the world.
Just things that boys do that have for the last 10, 15 years, the feminists have tried to wipe them out.
The feminists have done everything they can to try to say, and by the way, this is true of liberals everywhere.
Not just the feminists.
You know, the thing, there's so many things to help you understand liberals, but one of the best things to help you understand them is they will not say or think or do anything that might lead anyone to believe that they discriminate.
And that's why there is no difference between Islam and Christianity or Judaism or Catholicism.
Because they will not discriminate.
And particularly if they think people are members of minority groups or victims, and they really, really don't want to be perceived discriminating.
Boys and girls are not different.
Men and women are not different.
Remember the Time magazine covered in the mid-90s?
News study reveals boys and girls actually born different.
Imagine the mindset in the newsroom at time for that to be news to somebody.
And they've set about trying to make everybody equal.
The equality of outcomes.
Everybody wants to be miserable.
Well, they want everybody to be miserable because they don't think everybody can be happy.
And everybody must be the same.
Everybody must be equal.
Nobody can be better than anybody else.
Nobody can be different than anyone else.
And so what got this boys and girls stuff going in the classroom was, just like this stupid story out of the UK, raising your hand is intimidating to kids in the class who don't.
And so we're going to wipe that out.
Well, guess where that started?
Girls were afraid to raise their hand.
They were not called on.
The boys' hands shot up.
They were eager to prove what they knew.
This was humiliating the girls.
That led to separation of the sexes in the schools and this whole notion that the girls are being humiliated.
The curricula were designed to aid boys.
The feminazis got in there, took control of everything, and have made a giant mess out of so much.
So these two guys have come along and written the book, The Dangerous Book for Boys, because the marketplace works.
There is a need for it, and it is going bonkers out there.
And I wanted to mention that to you because I literally forgot to make mention of it yesterday.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
This is funny.
We have one, two, three, four, five of them here from Hardball last night.
Chris Matthews, the topic, Rush versus Bush.
He had one of the executives from Dead Air America on there and a former Bush 41 advisor, Ed Rogers.
And this is how Matthews opened a program last night.
So why is a conservative president giving the popular limba the bums rush?
That's what Rush Limbaugh himself would like to know.
But Bush's assault on his conservative base has ignited a firestorm on the right.
The truth is they don't like this immigration bill that rewards crossing the border illegally and invites millions more illegal crossings by creating a wide new path to citizenship.
Wait a second.
I did just the opposite.
People wanted me to get the dander up with Bush, but I was a gentleman about this.
I didn't take the bait.
In fact, I said yesterday I don't think it was meant to be personal at all.
But I did mention that the drive-bys were going to go bonkers because they love this.
They love the conservative movement falling apart because they hate conservatism.
That's what they think this represents.
And Bush versus Rush.
Oh, they hate me too.
And so this would be an ideal vehicle for them.
All of this I predicted last night on Hardball.
Here we go.
This is a tease by Matthews.
Bush versus Rush.
Boy, that's an interesting one because I love to see Rush Limbaugh get a little angry.
And there's this one.
Bush versus Rush Limbaugh.
What an interesting fight that's going to be.
You never fight with a guy who's got a microphone.
They kept teasing it, kept promoting this upcoming segment, Bush versus Rush.
And then last night, the guests are, well, no, this one doesn't feature the guests.
This is just Matthews and playing an audio soundbite for me.
Rush versus Bush.
Boys, Tuesday in Georgia this week, President Bush went on the attack to sell immigration plan to his political right.
I don't know.
Some supporters, including Rush Limbaugh, didn't take kindly to the president's tone.
Let's listen to him.
It's disappointing to me.
I'm not going to hide them, but the fact that he may be attacking me doesn't bother me.
That's.
What concerns me more about it, because you can't take this kind of stuff personally.
He didn't mention my name, and I'm not going to sit around here and start making assumptions.
The thing that is most troublesome to me is that the words that he spoke yesterday were criticism of the people who have stood by him through thick and thin when everybody's been trying to destroy him, be it on the National Guard story, take your pick.
Rumsfeld, the entire war in Iraq, the whole weapons of mass destruction thing.
People have stood by him because they trust him and believe him on those issues.
And they also did not want the Democrats to get away with taking him out.
And now the interview portion of the program.
Rush Limbaugh is really funny.
And so is George Bush.
Bush is probably scratching his head wondering where these opponents use such demagogic phrases as amnesty.
It's not literally amnesty, as you know, because you have to pay a fine.
One last point on Rush Limbaugh.
I know exactly who he is.
Enormously talented.
He gets higher ratings in Air America.
He has 10 million people listening.
He has 5% to 8% of America listening.
Good for radio.
He's jealous.
Awful for politics.
8% doesn't win an election.
Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant to someone who doesn't care about winning Republican primaries.
If Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant, what is Air America?
If I'm irrelevant, why was I the show last night?
Why is this whole fake topic of Rush versus Bush a big deal?
First of all, the voice you heard was Mark Green, who is the brother of the new owner of Dead Air America.
And he doesn't even know what he's talking about here.
He said, it's not literally amnesty, as you know, because you have to pay a fine.
No, you don't have to pay a fine.
That's unless you want citizenship.
If you don't want citizenship, you just want to become legal.
You don't pay a fine, Mark.
No fine whatsoever.
Also, audience is 20 million, Mark, in a week.
12 million from beginning to end of each three-hour program.
$5 million at any one time.
I love these guys.
They sit out there and they go on and on and on about how irrelevant I am while at the same time making me relevant.
This is a story from the D.C. Examiner.
And the headline is juicy.
Local liberals learning new lessons on diversity.
While President Bush and pro-amnesty members of Congress are pushing an unpopular immigration reform bill that would bestow American citizenship on millions of people who have no regard for America's laws, liberal Democrats across the Washington region are increasingly complaining about overcrowded houses, noise, loitering, and general public nuisance, all caused by illegal aliens.
Now that illegals have migrated to their neighborhoods, such liberals have become pro-enforcement all of a sudden.
It's happening to them, and they're singing a different tune.
Turns out that liberals in half a million dollar houses don't like living next door to a single-family house filled to the brim with illegal aliens who park on the front lawn, throw trash everywhere, and urinate outside.
Why not, liberals?
What about diversity?
This proves my point.
The elites and the liberals who are all for this are convinced it's never going to touch them.
But it is touching them.
And Virginia's becoming a problem state as well.
Got to take a break.
I'll be back in just a sec.
All right.
Sometimes this wears me out.
Rush, rush, rush, you're wrong.
You're wrong.
You're wrong.
Cabo Wabo and Cabo San Lucas is not Van Halen's bar.
It's Sammy Hagar's.
Fine.
I get out to LA and we start.
They show me the script last Friday night, and I look at it at Cabo Wabo.
I started laughing.
I love the way you guys come up with these wacko names.
Oh, that's a real place.
It's Van Halen's Bar, Cabo St. Lucas.
Okay, so I trust the people who wrote the script know that Cabo Wabble is Van Halen's.
It's Sammy Hayguard's place.
Fine, we'll correct it.
Get it right.
Anyway, I have five stories here.
The details of the stories are irrelevant.
What I want is to read the headlines to you: Fear, Crisis, We're Doomed, the standard daily template of the drive-by media.
Lake Okeechobee, 79 years later, fears of another deluge.
Galveston, where the nation's deadliest disaster hit only one way out.
New York City, dreading a once-a-century storm that washes out lower Manhattan, the Outer Banks.
75% of these islands could be gone.
Miami, America's playground, risks another disaster.
All of these stories, they came out today, last night for today, because today is the traditional beginning of hurricane season.
Not because nature says it is.
We just decide to call it hurricane season starts on June 1.
The only thing they haven't done that I thought they would do was send the cameras out to the beaches, scanning the horizons.
We're finally getting some rain here today.
It just started sprinkling.
I looked at the bunch of websites.
I know I'm a weather buff out there.
They're forecasting in the next 48 hours, maximum of 10 plus inches for us.
In the next 48 hours, starting primarily after 2 o'clock this afternoon.
I hope that happens after we get out of here because I don't get flooded.
Parking garage have to stay up here all weekend, like happened.
There is no EIB chopper to scramble.
He's got a note in the IFB.
Should we scramble the EIB chopper?
All right, to the phones.
It's Open Line Friday.
Quentin in Dayton, Ohio.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
You're up first today.
Hey, Rush, great to talk to you today.
I know.
Thank you.
Well, I can show you with three simple laws exactly how conservatives are just as bad as feminists in the destruction of boys and men.
You can show me with three simple laws exactly how conservatives are just as bad as feminists in the destruction of boys and men.
Yes, they go right along with it.
The first one is Congressman Mike Turner has tried to introduce a bill banning civil courts from making custody changes while someone is deployed.
This is an issue that I wrote both my Republican rep and my senator about, telling them it needed to stop.
It's against the Soldier Sailors Act of 1942, but civil court judges ignore it and they're totally.
I don't deny that there are conservatives who are kowtowing to women.
Frankly, we all do at various points in our lives, and they do vote.
And, all right, what's it?
I understand the custody, but I've heard a lot about it.
I know the inequities in that circumstance.
Fortunately, they've never been a factor in my life.
What's the next one?
Ohio has passed a law making it so you do not have to be convicted, only accused to be required to be a registered sex offender.
That was pushed by the Republican Party.
Wait a sec.
What's that?
You're talking about sex offenders.
What the hell is anti-male about that?
Do you want sex offenders in your neighborhood?
Ah, but it's accused, not convicted or anything.
Not to mention, if you look at it, women face almost no.
Did this become law?
Yes, it is law.
It was last year.
All right.
What's our next one?
I'm unimpressed so far.
What's our next one?
The Violence Against Women Act.
It specifically excludes men from receiving services, even if they have to deal with an abusive spouse.
Receiving service, you know, in legal lingo, that means something maybe other than what you, what, it specifically excludes men from receiving service.
What kind of services?
Being able to go to a shelter, being able to receive money and legal support in dealing with a violent spouse.
Okay.
Well, that's clearly a bunk.
And you've given me three examples, but you can't.
You have to understand what I'm saying here.
Conservatism ideologically does not hold these beliefs.
You might have some renegades out there in the conservative movement, henpecked.
The only thing they do behind their wife's back is zip her up, might have to put this stuff.
You never know what goes on behind closed doors.
But liberalism ideologically has been, it is about the destruction of standard traditions and institutions.
And you can't say that about conservatism.
I mean, you know better than to try to call me and call me on this.
Conservatives just call it chivalry instead.
That's the only difference.
With conservatives, they claim it's chivalry.
Chivalry?
Yes.
You've got to be nice to these women and you've got to be chivalrous to them.
You've got to be, you know, what's wrong with being nice to women?
Well, the problem is, is they've been so busy trying to show chivalry and gain that woman vote and everything like that that they have literally taken the raise away.
Let me ask you a question.
Are you an accused sex offender and have you lost the custody of your kids?
Yes, to both.
And I've been cleared on both and I'm supposed to gain custody on June 6th.
But the funny part is you're spanking at?
I just got a protective order placed against me for spanking my child, which prevents my from gaining custody.
Police because they're spanking you.
Yeah, I've heard about all this.
Look it, I know if the word gets out that you...
But this is feminism that's done this.
Feminism has tried to establish the notion that all fathers are predators, that their little girls are not safe.
Their kids are not safe in their homes.
All it takes is one phone call to social services from a disgruntled wife or the kid playing a practical joke, and you are being hauled out of there in handcuffs.
You're correct.
And conservatives go right along with it.
That's the problem.
I wrote my congressman for years telling them we needed to do something about this, and I was flat ignored.
And then they turn around and pass laws saying that I should be required to register as a sex offender because I was accused, even though I was cleared.
You were cleared of being a sex offender.
Yes, repeatedly.
Investigations later.
Glad to know that because this would have been the first known sex offender to appear on this program had you not cleared that up.
Well, look, I appreciate the call.
I understand.
Conservatism is not monolithic.
Well, conservatism is.
Conservatives are not monolithic.
Liberals are much more so.
I'm not trying to diminish the frustrations you feel because I know they're real, and I've heard them from countless other fathers over my stellar broadcast career.
Occasionally, out of the woodwork, these phone calls will come in like this.
Keep a sharp eye on custody because if you're not careful in there, Snerdly, we're going to be talking about custody like it's illegal immigration today.
That just, it's a magnet.
It's just, and I understand that.
Quentin, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
Fayetteville, North Carolina.
This is Rob.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Pleasure here.
I'm a charter listener since 1986.
Appreciate that, sir.
Thank you very much.
Yes, sir.
And I agree with you about 99% of the time, but today I'd like to take it to task on education.
I'm a retired educator, retired last year after 30 years.
I am a conservative.
And I know some people think that's unusual conservatives in the classroom, but actually half my staff that I taught with was conservative.
And, you know, we get this comment, government schools.
Are you prepared to change your life?
Are you going to deny my assertion that the vast majority of educators and teachers are libs?
No, absolutely not.
That's all I said.
Okay, no, but it's always coming out that it's just the bastion of liberalism and education.
And I see that.
I say, I battle these people.
I battle them through my kids.
I give them the other end of the story, if you will.
And I actually send out with marching orders.
When you have a teacher that makes a statement that is on the left side, now you have the right side.
I want you to go in there.
I want you to debate this thing.
Don't take it sitting down.
No, I understand that.
There are lots of you out there, but the institution of public education is dominated by the unions, which employ the teachers, the administrators.
It's dominated by the fact that they need federal money, and if you want federal money, you've got to do what the federal government says to do in your various school systems and school districts and so forth.
Yeah, but Rush, there's another point.
North Carolina is not a unionized state.
We have an association that's worthless, thank God.
And I think only about 15% is the North Carolina Association of Educators, but we're not unionized.
We are not dictated to by a union, thank God, and I wouldn't have listened to them.
But we're not unionized.
This is a right-to-work state here.
So that doesn't go on here.
We don't get marching orders from the union.
Well, that's good.
And look, you are doing the Lord's work standing up to this behemoth.
And I must say, my background lends me to that.
I'm a product.
My father was a Foreign Service officer, and I traveled the world.
I went to 16 different schools, Italian school, French school.
Foreign Service.
You mean State Department?
Yeah, State Department.
He was a diplomat, U.S. diplomat.
And he was a USIA public affairs officer, and then he was at the Shea's Embassy.
And then his last job in Washington was assistant director of the Voice of America.
And that's when things were somewhat on a conservative side.
That's when Reagan ran the thing, I'll bet.
Yes, that's right.
And actually, his last boss was Edward R. Murrow.
So it's been a while back.
But, you know, times have changed.
Edward R. Murrow was his boss, so I was wrong then.
Well, look, I appreciate the call.
I said most when I first made this claim.
I know that you guys are very proud of your work you're doing in standing up to this liberalism that's out there.
And I hear from students and teachers alike describing how outnumbered they are.
And that's the thing that we need to take away here at the end of the call.
You did the Lord's work in standing up for it.
And others who are conservative are doing the same thing.
But the idea that the public education system is not governed by infested with liberals and the liberal agenda is to put the head in the sand.
Got to be right back after this.
In the prestigious Attila the Hun chair at the Distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, I am Senior Fellow Rush Limbaugh, National Treasure, 800-282-2882.
Here's Tim in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Good morning, Rush.
Hi.
I just wanted to tell you, you rock, man.
You know, up until 9-11, I did not give a rip about politics or any of that stuff.
I thought you were just this bombastic big voice, you know.
Oh, I am.
I have a design.
I'm bombastic.
I didn't care.
You know, I just thought you were a jerk because I never listened to you.
But I had a friend who used to listen to you all the time.
This was around the time of Waco.
Ah, the Waco envision of a Janet Reno.
Yes.
But that was kind of where I first picked up on you.
But I'll tell you, since 9-11 and the last elections, you've turned me into a political animal.
Oh, right.
You just, man, I can't thank you enough for what you're doing out there.
Well, I appreciate that very much.
My heart is always warmed with these kinds of calls, and Snerdley dutifully finds a bunch of them each day.
And I really appreciate that.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I mean, I just.
Well, what were you politically before 9-11?
I mean, I was pretty much probably liberal.
But you didn't care much.
Tell me something.
I'm fascinated by that.
I am still fascinated by this.
I literally do not understand how it is that my bombast, which is how that is a turnoff.
I mean, it's, and it is for a lot of people.
I will admit that I am bombastic, but I will admit no more than that.
But what was it?
I have a different theory.
I don't think it's the bombast that would turn people away such as you.
I think it's people are uncomfortable when they hear somebody who is so certain he's right, so confident, so self-assured.
That's what's off-putting.
Not the bombast, because the bombast, frankly, if you have an open mind, it's funny.
Oh, absolutely.
I know now it's just part of your shtick, you know?
I am not shtick.
Well, I am.
I am a real.
You know, it's just, it's you.
It's how you do your thing.
And I so really appreciate it now.
Well, thank you.
It took you how many, once you started listening, how long did it take you to realize that you had made an error in judgment prior?
Oh, lordy.
Six weeks?
Less.
Well, and you beat the national average.
And normally for new listeners, it takes six weeks to fully comprehend the vast horizons possible on this program.
Yeah, but today is one of the, I don't know, I'm home today recovering from some spinal surgery.
It's one of the few days I've listened to the whole show.
Upper or lower?
L5, that's one low down at the bottom, blew a disc out.
Man, was there no other option than to have them cut on you?
When they start cutting on the spine, that's I've got some problems with my C5 and C6 up near the top and back of the neck, and the surgery to fix this goes through my larynx.
So I'm not doing it.
They say, oh, there's only a 2% chance.
Well, I can't take the 2% chance.
No, can't.
And I don't, my grandmother had similar surgery, and after she had it, her voice always sounded like she was gargling.
Because they just, you know, the little nick is all it takes.
I just, I can't risk it, but I'm cutting on the spine.
That's just, that's.
Well, this was the very lowest one by your tailbone.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Oh, that's, I guess you.
Well.
It was causing great sciatic pain.
And there's a lot of people.
No, we just lost the people in Rio Linda.
Has it worked?
Is the recovery successful?
Well, I just had the surgery Wednesday, and I'm home yesterday.
It's almost outpatient.
It's called a microdiskectomy.
Right.
Well, we wish you the best with it out there.
This stuff is not easy.
I've had surgery fairly close to what you're talking about.
Yeah, but it's, but it was just, I'm able to listen to the whole show.
Usually I get like, I can listen during my lunch hour.
Oh, but you're home now, I've called a show, and I decided I'm going to call this man and express my gratitude.
Well, again, I thank you so much.
It means more than you know.
Well, thank you, Rush.
All right.
Keep it up, man.
I'll do that.
I know no other way out there, Tim.
And all the best to you, okay?
Hey, you too, Brush.
All right.
We've got to take a brief time out here, ladies and gentlemen, and we'll be back and continue with more bombast in a moment.
I asked this staff, I said, I wonder how many people even know what bombastic means.
You know what it means?
What would you say it means?
Just get a couple of words to describe or define bombastic.
Well, you're close.
Here's the dictionary definition of bombastic.
Rush limbaugh.
No, it pompous, pompous, blustering, turgid, verbose, high-flown, high-sounding, overwrought, pretentious, ostentatious, grandiloquent, informal, highfalutin, puffed up, Faustian, and rare.
And when you are pompous, blustering, high-flown, high-sounding, overwrought, pretentious, ostentatious, and grandiloquent, and right at the same time, that's what sends them over the edge.
Nobody's supposed to be that certain of themselves.
Gee, folks, I really don't know.
This is what I think, but I want to offend any of you when I say this.
That's what makes people feel comfortable.
But, of course, that ain't me.
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