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July 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 5, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, uh, you know, on Tuesday uh on this program discussed in some detail, and I think I was a little too lofty about this.
I'm a little too serious about this.
Sometimes I tend to get very philosophical and serious, and this was the story about the the memory drug.
They're working on this drug that can that can wipe out traumatic memories.
Uh and and I, you know, got very deep, I think, in discussing this, uh, in opposing it.
And I thought it was a more practical way to explain why this would not be a good thing.
And it's very, very simple.
If they develop the memory dog and you prescribe it or get it prescribed, you take it.
I mean, all kinds of, you know, bad things to do.
You can end up marrying and divorcing the same person over and over again.
That's a f I think a simpler way to look at the and notice I didn't say Marion divorced the same woman over and over.
I said the same person, because it works, it works for all.
I you should have seen Dawn's face in there.
Every time I bring this stuff a little grimace that eventually breaks out into a uh into a smile.
Uh, let's see.
Would you believe it if I if I told you there's a story here that the uh uh a federal program has failed.
That's not news, is it?
Listen to this.
This is from Panorama City, California.
Federal government will spend more than one billion dollars this year on nutrition education, fresh carrot, celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of well, they better be careful of that.
It might spire other things.
Let's see.
Uh billion dollars on nutrition education for fresh carrot and celery snacks uh video of dancing fruit.
Hundreds of hours of lively sessions about how great you will feel if you eat well, but an AP review of scientific studies examining 57 such nutrition programs already in existence.
Found mostly failure.
No, say it ain't so.
Big government programs fail.
That's right, just four of the 57 showed any real success in changing the way kids eat or any promise as weapons against the growing epidemic of childhood obesity.
Any person looking at the published literature about these programs would have to conclude that they are generally not working.
Said Dr. Well, yeah, that's right.
Increase the budget and need more programs.
Uh if if uh if it's like Soviet Union didn't work because we didn't give it enough time, and they went into too much debt.
If we'd just been a little bit more patient, all these federal government programs, we just they're underfunded and they don't have enough redundancy in them.
Uh the results have been disappointing to say the least.
Last year a major federal pilot program offering free fruits and vegetables to scrual children showed fifth graders became less willing to eat them than they had been at the start.
Apparently they didn't like the taste.
Well, what why why should that matter to liberals?
Liberals, they they want you to do what they think you ought to do, whether you like it or not.
And particularly kids.
Kids are running inmates are running the asylum.
I mean, if if you really believe this stuff is good for kids, you force it down their throats.
You inject it with a syringe with the nutrients if you have to really think that it's the thing to do.
In Pennsylvania, researchers went so far as to give prizes to scrual children who ate fruits and vegetables.
That really helps, that bribes them.
That worked while the prizes were offered, but when the researchers came back seven months later, the kids had reverted to their original eating habits.
Soda pop and chips.
Really?
How can we how can we expect otherwise?
Most kids learn what tastes good and what tastes nasty by their tenth birthdays.
If we don't reach a child before they get to puberty, it's gonna be very tough, very difficult to change their eating behavior behavior, said Dr. Robert Trevino of the Social and Health Research Center in San Antonio.
But this story would not be complete without the obligatory women in minorities hardest hit.
And it hasn't.
Poorer kids are especially at risk.
Because unhealthy food is cheaper and more easily available than healthy food.
Parents are often working, leaving children unsupervised to get their own snacks.
Well, the government can fix that.
Low-income neighborhoods have fewer good supermarkets with fresh produce.
See how we hate the poor.
See how we discriminate.
And if mom can't find tomatoes in her local grocery store, nothing's gonna change.
Oh, so now we're even depriving poor neighborhoods of tomatoes in the stores.
What a bunch of rotten evildoers we are.
Calorie burning has become the province of the wealthy.
Said uh who said this?
Some guy named Zeitler.
I fear that we're gonna what we're gonna see is a divergence of healthy people and unhealthy people.
Basically, like everything else, it costs money to be helpful.
Healthy.
So now we're even dividing along health lines.
We got we've got racial barriers, we've got sexual gender barriers, we got ideological barriers, and now we're gonna be the healthy and the unhealthy.
Uh, all because the federal program didn't work.
Now, about this live aid stuff.
I've got a couple stories here.
They're just they're just hilarious.
But the real question is look at the lineup.
And I don't see any big name.
No, it's Saturday, and NBC's got three hours of prime time telecasting of this thing to do Saturday night.
Uh, and I don't know what they're gonna do to fill it.
There's it's a whole 18-hour extravaganza, and I think on Bravo, which they own NBC Universal owns, I think they're gonna do the whole thing.
Uh their HG channel, uh Universal HD is gonna have significant coverage.
Uh but I mean, I thought this is the most important issue of our lifetime.
Global warming, climate change, saving the planet.
Where are the big names?
I mean, the no nukes concert had a better lineup than this.
Live aid had a better lineup than this.
This is pathetic.
I mean, where's where is Bruce Springsteen?
Springsteen, nowhere around.
Where's Joan Baez?
Well known communist sympathizer and anti sympathizer and anti tax crusader?
Where's Eric Klappner?
I mean, Annie Lennox will sign up for anything is not on this thing.
If Annie Lennox is not on the bill, then there's trouble.
And the question is, is this a rejection of gore or is this a rejection of the issue?
People just not thinking it's a big deal.
There is this young 21-year-old group.
Uh, let's see, what's the name of this bunch?
The Arctic monkeys.
You know, when I saw this headline, Arctic monkeys shiver at Live Earth hypocrisy.
I'd never heard of the Arctic monkeys.
So I was thinking, monkeys in the Arctic.
And I was picturing monkeys.
Shivering.
And I the headline made no sense.
All because of my ignorance, naive, but the name of this group.
But this group, the Arctic monkeys, they they don't even understand what the big deal is.
They think, why do people listen to us?
We're 21-year-old kids.
We're a rock band.
We don't know anything more than anybody else does.
Why do people listen?
What is a rock concert going to do to this?
I've told you people, and there's a companion story to this later on in the snack.
I have told you.
When society appears to be crumbling from cultural and moral rot and decay, eventually, a generation is born that gets old and sees what it's about to inherit as adults and says, uh, we ain't putting up with this.
Uh and we're not going to live this way.
We're going to live the way our parents did.
We want a little, you know, more civility and uh solidity in uh in uh in our lives.
I frankly don't remember a young punk uh uh rock group, 21-year-old kids having this kind of maturity about the political nature of what they do.
Uh I'll give you all the details of this.
And there's a there's a also a funniest hell still.
Wembley Stadium is where the the London venue is, and uh PETA is all over them not to serve hot dogs and hamburgers, no meat uh during the concert there.
And of course, uh others are worried about the carbon footprint uh that uh the whole thing is gonna make and how to offset it, which of course isn't a problem.
All right, a brief time out, we'll come back and get started with all the rest of that and whatever else is in the stacks of stuff right after this.
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Live Earth concerts on Saturday, meant to spur action to fight global warming, must first tackle another environmental hazard, and that's the garbage.
And thousands of tons of greenhouse gases caused by the event.
John Rego, the environmental advisor for the eight concerts meant to rock the world around the clock on a rolling basis from Sydney to New York and organized by Al Gore, said we want to set a new global standard for dealing with waste and recycling.
Well, then don't create any.
Don't do the series of concerts.
It's very simple.
Says here that LiveEarth needs to lead by example to convince people to change their lifestyles in the long term to confront a climate crisis caused by rising emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels.
Concert props may live on long after stars such as Madonna, Shakira, and Bon Jovi have left the stage.
Uh Live Earth has to be cautious.
This is it's quite it's it's quite common here for these things to go out of control.
Uh and they've got green guidelines for Live Earth.
Say uh that staff ground travel be by hybrid or high efficiency vehicles where possible.
At typical concerts, more than half the greenhouse gases are emitted by thousands of people traveling to the venues by bus, train, subway, or car.
Those totals can only be estimated.
It's a dilemma.
Uh for life Earth, they have to create carbon to save carbon.
Now that's that's just insane.
They have to create carbon to save carbon.
That's the whole point of why this is a waste of time.
A bunch of hypocrites.
I mean, if you want to have a concert, go do the concert.
If you want to have a worldwide series of don't sit there and say that you're setting new standards for carbon emissions, or that you're even going to have one iota's worth of an effect on the climate of the planet.
Uh it's a dilemma.
They have to create carbon to save carbon.
Uh, Michael Buick is the spokesman of climate care, which helps invest in clean energy to offset greenhouse gases.
This is so typical of these these proponents.
They go out, they don't reduce their emissions at all.
They don't reduce the amount they pollute.
They just, well, I'm gonna go invest in these companies that plant trees and I'll make up for it.
That way, while demanding everybody else reduce their lifestyles and uh change the way they live.
Now let me give you the details about this group, the um the Arctic monkeys.
Uh, they became the latest music industry stars.
They're not the only ones, by the way, to question whether the performers taking part in this whole thing are suitable climate change activists.
He said that Matt Helders is the drummers.
It's it's a bit patronizing for us 21-year-olds to try to start to change the world.
Uh this group is not on the bill, by the way.
The Arctic monkeys are not going to be on the bill at any of Al Gore's concerts.
He was talking, the drummer was talking to the French news agency, said, Look, uh, when we're using enough power for 10 houses just for stage lighting, I think it'd be a bit hypocritical.
And he's exactly right.
This is a 21-year-old who's got more smarts on this than Al Gore does.
The bass player, Nick O'Malley said, and we're always jetting off on airplanes.
Who are we to be telling people about cutting back and uh and global warming?
Um someone asked us to give a quote about what was happening in Sheffield.
This is where they're from in a big flood there.
It's like, who cares what we think about what's happening?
There's more important people who can have an opinion.
Why does it make us have an opinion?
Because we're in a band.
Now, this group, the Arctic Monkeys, their first record was the fastest-selling debut album in British history.
Uh, and they're gonna have their own tour, Asia, Australia the next few months, and be flying all over the place.
But they're not the only ones to take a cynical view of this.
Many of the biggest acts have questionable environmental credentials.
The car-loving rapper Snoop Dog appeared in a Chrysler commercial last year.
Bob Geldoff got in a public spat with Al Gore Geldoff from the Boomtown Rats, and he's uh he got this whole thing started with live aid to stop the famine in Ethiopia, which of course was was not based on anything that he could fix with a concert, but it made everybody feel good.
Uh Geldoff said, why why is Gore actually organizing these things?
Uh it doesn't make any sense.
Roger Daltrey, in a who told a British newspaper in May that the last thing the planet needs is a rock concert.
The Pet Shop Boys, a group from the 80s, attacked the arrogance of pop stars who put themselves forward as role models.
And I've always been against the idea of rock stars lecturing people as if they know something the rest of us don't.
This is unheralded.
This is unumar you you put together a politically oriented rock concert, and the biggest of the big are clamoring to get there.
You can't keep them out of there.
And they are all wanting you to know how serious they are.
And how helpful this event is, and how important it is to the virtual survivability of mankind on our planet and so forth.
Now you've got the Arctic monkeys, a couple 21-year-olds, you've got Roger Daltry, you've got Bob Geldo.
Geldoff may be just jealous here that Gore's encroaching on his his whole theme territory.
Who knows?
These guys all have performers' egos.
When you have a performer's ego, you're susceptible to envy and jealousy.
But I mean, this is this is pretty new for me for these people to be coming out and opposing this and saying it's worthless, and that we're a bunch of hypocrites if we go up and make statements with all the power that we use putting on these concerts.
Where's Barbara Streisand?
Where is Springsteen?
where are the big names?
Where are the political activists that you would expect to be on stage preaching to everybody?
And I'm just curious.
Is it a rejection of the issue?
Or is it a rejection of Al Gore?
Quick timeout, folks, back after this.
I want to demonstrate for you what a bunch of genuine morons.
All of these spin.
I have you know the environmentalist wackos, the animal rights people, uh the militant vegetarians, uh all of these groups supposedly oriented toward uh saving the planet and saving it.
Just a bunch of libs.
These organizations are just different names to make it look like they have a specific instance or issue that they're pushing, but they're all libs and they all want to run your life.
They all want to control you.
Basically miserable people that haven't amounted to anything.
They want to share their misery with everybody else so that and try to make as many other people miserable as possible.
Uh and then they get it, they get obsessed with the notion that they're better than everybody else because they care more.
And they wear all these ribbons, the AIDS ribbon, blue ribbon for what all these different colored ribbons.
And by wearing those ribbons, they're saying, I care more than you do.
I had better pierce it, because I care more.
So, PETA, people for the ethical treatment of animals, is all over the organizers of Live Earth at Wembley.
They said, Don't sell hot dogs.
Don't sell any meat.
Don't sell hamburgers in the concession stands, don't sell any of that stuff.
Uh PETA campaigner Yvon Taylor uh said it'd be hypocritical if the damage caused by the industry was overlooked at the concert.
And she said that the group had written to the managing director of Wembley Stadium, urging him not to sell meat at the event.
And then she said this.
She said, there's no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalist.
Now that's a pretty broad statement.
Let's examine if that's true.
What does that tell us about them?
There's no such thing as a meat-eating environment.
Now, what she means, I'm sure that some of you out there care about the planet, and you're not filthy, and you're not polluters and you eat beef, but that's not what they mean by environmentalists.
By environmentalists, they mean wacko activist socialist types that are committed to running as many people's lives as possible so as to ruin as many people's lives as possible so that they can share having their own lives ruined with others whose lives they do ruin.
It's just misery loves company with these people, but they're dangerous because they uh they're unrelenting.
And they don't work.
They fundraise, they live off the donations of others who are simply giving them money to shut them up and to be feeling good about themselves at the same time.
We're saying it's all a very good cause, and obviously we're very supportive of live earth, but one thing seems to have been missed, which is that even the UN says that the meat industry causes more greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, ships, and planes in the world combined.
Well, if that's if that's the case, then your problem is with God.
Oh, sorry, they don't believe in that God.
So no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalist.
Are we could we could we then assume that every vegetarian is a an environmentalist and is a wacko environmentalist?
Could we assume that's well?
I don't know.
She's the authority here, Snerdley.
You may have anecdotal evidence to support the contention that uh that vegetarians uh are not environmentalist wackos, but she's the authority.
You're not, even though you're not one.
So I love it when these people open up.
I love it when they tell us who they are.
To the phones.
Ben in Bakersville, California.
Glad you called, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
My life is complete.
I'm talking to the big one.
Well, I appreciate that.
That's that's I thank you very much, sir.
I my mind when you first talked about all the trash went to Dan's bake sale.
There wasn't any trash at Dan.
Wait a second.
There wasn't any trash at Dan's big well, a couple people, maybe, but that's what I'm saying.
It's the complete opposite.
Oh, I misunderstood you.
They made no yes, they cleaned up.
There wasn't any cleaned up after themselves.
Absolutely right.
Just like a scout We learned in Scout.
You leave the place cleaner than you found it.
Right.
Well, you know, it's a good point.
If you if you want to if you want to save the environment and do a concert, make sure the audience is conservatives.
There you go.
And you know, and and and we are the ones, by the way, who are mostly accused of not caring and being filthy polluters, and we're using more than our fair share of all these uh resources.
A good point.
Great reminder there.
I appreciate that, man.
This is Bill in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Uh great to have you on the program, sir.
How do you do, sir?
Uh I guess I'll go straight to my point.
I'm uh taking issue, although I'm against the live earth concerts in general.
I don't agree with you when you say there aren't any big performers there.
And what I'm basing on is I'm looking at an email ad from uh XM, who's televis who's uh broadcasting concerts, and I see some names that I think are big on there.
Like in London, I see uh Genesis, Duran Duran.
Has been hasbins.
This is the whole point there hasbens.
There may be good groups, but these are not current groups.
There has been.
Duran Duran, their career bombed out when they sang View to a kill, the theme song of that uh James Bond movie.
Okay, keep going.
This is interesting.
Who else on the list?
Okay.
Uh the police, Dave Matthews, Ludacris.
Uh okay, wait a minute.
The police.
Yeah.
They broke up years ago.
The police is basically one guy sting.
Uh, but but Sting's singing with them.
This this is this I know I know Sting got it back together with it, but it's not lighting any fires out there.
You're you're talking.
Hey, will you hang on just a second?
What are you groaning about in there?
Snerdley is sending me facial.
There has been.
No.
They Snerdley's the music official now that he kind of agrees with you here, uh, Bill.
But come on, you know, you get you know, keep going the list.
Keep going.
So you said Dave Matthews and uh and Ludacris.
Ludacris, Kelly Clarkson, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
I mean, we're we're still not here to the A-list.
Well, to me, I mean I I disagree with most of the A-list.
Where's Paula Abdul?
How can you have Kelly Clarks without Paula Abdul?
And Simon Crowell, where where are the big names in music these days?
Where are the heavy hitters?
Where the where's Dylan?
Well, Bill is Paul Dill still a big name in music.
I thought you just did uh whatever that show is.
Uh American Idol.
Yeah.
Uh the Black IT, which uh I can't understand why they're a big group, but I see them on commercials all the time.
Yeah.
Uh Bon Jovi.
Did I mention that?
Bon Jovi.
I mean, I Bon Jovi's putting the biggest name on the on on the on the uh on the list, as far as I'm concerned.
The most relevant.
I mean, a guy owns a little football team, he shows up at NFL concerts, he's a good little activist out there.
That's what I'm talking about.
Where are these other guys?
Where are the Streisands?
Where are the Springsteens?
Where are the Save the Earth crowd?
Where I mean, where are the people that really you would think be trumpeting the political message of this uh of this whole concert idea?
Oh, I see.
So you're saying that these these uh groups I'm mentioning aren't ones that are really uh not only that, I'm I'm just saying that you know the anti-nuke concert had a bigger playlist than this or playbill, and this is a this is a whole bunch of different concerts.
Uh-huh.
And I just I just I don't see the big players, the big activists.
Well, I see some big players, now I'm the big activists, I think.
For example, consult your list there, Bill, and tell me if you too is there.
Uh I don't see you too.
You don't see you too.
Well, who's the frontman for you too?
Uh Bono.
Bono.
And what's Bono trying to do?
Single-handedly get other people to save Africa.
And Africa's.
What's your real criteria?
What's your real criteria on what should what are big names in the concert?
Do they have to be the activists also?
It's an activist concert.
The whole point of this is activism.
Why do this?
Where's Willie Nelson?
There's a guy.
Where's Willie?
FarmAid?
All these things.
Where's Paul McCartney?
Where's Ringo Starr?
I mean, they may as well go out and try to uh uh find Jim Morrison to show up.
Uh-huh.
Okay, no, those are cards aren't on, but to me, to me, those are still big groups.
Well, it's not music is a funny thing.
There's no right or wrong in it.
I mean, I you might like Chinese opera and I don't.
Doesn't make yours tastes bad or wrong.
It just makes them different than mine.
So if you're going to assign B list talent as A-list talent, then they are A-list to you.
That's one of the great things about it.
Everybody's a critic.
And uh look, and I got nothing against Genesis.
We play a lot of Genesis uh songs in our bumper rotation here.
Well, I like them too, except I like them.
I like them better with Peter Gabriel and Peter Gabriel's not with him.
So yeah, but Steve Collins was still with him.
Yeah, Phil Collins.
He's the big commercial guy, which I I think.
You call here and gripe at me, and now you're you're you're complaining that all these guys are too commercial.
Why did I say I was complaining?
I was just disagreeing for discussion.
Now you're complaining.
I asked you if you like Genesis.
I asked you if like Genesis and Phil Collins.
A little too commercial.
Yeah.
Well, you asked me.
I deal with whiners and complainers all this part of my job.
I can spot them.
You think that's why complaining?
Hey, you ask me that gave it to you.
All right, it's an observation.
I'll I'll grant you that.
But uh look, you're gonna watch it.
That's the point.
Probably not.
Not that big a deal.
Why aren't you gonna watch?
Why aren't you gonna watch it?
Because the talent's not big enough.
That's why you're not gonna watch it.
Good.
That means you have better things to do than be preached to as well.
Well, look, uh Bill, I'm I'm uh I'm glad you called.
Thanks.
I gotta run, take a quick time out.
We'll be back after this.
Maybe I spoke too soon, ladies and gentlemen.
I've just been pointed to his story on the UK Guardian that uh Paul McCartney is thinking about closing the London show at Wembley Stadium.
He hasn't decided yet.
Um it's true that Paul has been asked to take part.
Uh source revealed.
He said that the cause is very close to his heart.
He's very impressed with what Al Gore's been doing to highlight it, but he's still deciding whether he can do it at the whether he can do it at the moment.
It's two days from now.
He wants to see if somebody shows up.
Uh nerdly says he's got a new album out.
He'll be there.
He's gonna close the show.
If he doesn't do it, they're gonna get uh Madonna to uh close the show.
But Madonna's not even known as I mean when you think about Madonna, I mean, the last thing you think about Madonna is green, uh terms of uh environmentalist type credentials.
Uh how many houses does she own?
She owns seven or eight houses, stables, horse manure all over the property.
I know it's fertilizer, but at any rate uh.
So I don't know what uh uh point.
Why is McCartney waiting to decide two days away?
Could be a matter of money.
Uh could be he just not thrilled with the bill and doesn't want to be if he gets if he shows up, he would be the only big name there, make these other guys look like you know sandbox beginners.
Uh Mike in Chicago, you're next on the uh EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Baha Rush.
It is an honor.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
Speaking of manure and Madonna, um, I wanted to uh refresh your memory.
I don't know how many years ago it was, but uh the Dave Matthews band's tour driver dumped their chemical toilet in the Chicago River and was caught doing it.
Oh, yeah.
I remember that.
They dumped yeah, they from their tour bus, right?
Exactly right.
And I thought I think it came down on top of some tours than uh in one of them uh that's I remember that story now.
That's exactly right.
Dave Matthews band they dumped a toilet and the tour bus, uh, all the refuse in the toilet, and it had some tourists.
They were spotted to it.
Speaking of, where's where's Chrissy Hind?
Now I know she lives in London, but uh where's Chrissy Hine and the pretenders?
I mean, activist joins these causes, joins left-wing causes, a big animal person, too.
That may be why she's not there because they might be serving meat at uh at Wembley Stadium.
Mike in uh Riverside, California, thank you for waiting.
You're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush Ditto's from the left coast.
Uh my question is, I'm wondering if we can expect uh visit from uh Reverend Sharpton out in California uh advocating no preferential treatment and jail time for Al Cor's son like he did uh for Paris Hilton.
I don't think uh Al Gore's son got preferential treatment.
He was uh it was booked.
He was charged with uh what he was charged with that he he uh had to make bail or 20 of 25,000 dollars, and his uh his sister came in, and he's got a court date coming up, so it's it's a little premature.
There I I'll tell you there's there'd be no reason uh for the Reverend Sharpton to show up uh You know, this is a it's it's really it's really a sad thing.
I I hope that they're finally able to uh get Al Gore the Third some uh some uh focused and serious treatment, because this uh this this can be it can be beaten, it can be done.
But one of the things that I think, and I probably even shouldn't opine this.
One of the things that the problem here is that public figures uh think they put obstacles in their way.
They think it's much tougher to deal with things like this because they're public figures.
It doesn't matter, it has to be dealt with in their ways to do it.
And uh, you know, when it's when it's kids, you know, I I tend to put myself myself in the shoes of the parents on uh something like this.
And having been through this myself, I uh, you know, it's I can't laugh at it, and there's there could there really isn't anything uh funny about it, and you just hope that they're able to put away whatever or brush away whatever the the obstacles to getting uh serious treatment started here because it's you know I'll I'll just tell you this, folks, and I haven't spoken much about this for a host of reasons.
I plan to someday, but I haven't haven't been able to do to do so yet.
But I I think I have mentioned that the five weeks I spent, I but I saw the other day where somebody reported I went to Sierra Tucson and uh the rehabilitation.
It's not where I went, I went to a place called the Meadows.
And it was for a host of reasons that I don't have time to delve into now, it was the most valuable five weeks of my life uh in terms of understanding various aspects of you know why I was choosing things I was choosing and doing things I was doing, and uh just it was it was miraculous.
And I was saying to myself the whole time I was there, well, I wish this would have happened to me when I was fifteen, eighteen, twenty.
This uh this is valuable for people who don't have addiction problems.
Uh uh I think.
So Al Gore the Third uh uh is based on my experience is prime candidate to have this help him immensely and uh for the for the rest of his life, and it's it's all a positive if you take it seriously, go in there and you roll up your sleeves and get into it.
It's not hard physically, it's just uh it's you just have to uh you have to get out of denial, and you have to be willing to uh you know be honest with yourself about who you are and why you're where you are and how you want to change it.
But boy, if you can pull that off and do it, it is it'd be one of the greatest things that could ever happen to him.
So I hope I hope uh Sharpton does stay out of it.
And I hope a lot of people, you know, don't start making fun of the kid here, the young man, because that's uh you put yourself in the shoes of the of the parents uh here, and you know, kid's not a political figure, he's not a public figure, he's he's uh he's needed trying to live a life of anonymity.
Uh in fact.
I got a quick timeout here.
We'll take it and be back after this.
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There is one thing about the Al Gore the Third story that puzzles me.
What what all these people uh pushing these hybrids, what are they not been telling us?
How in the world do you get a Toyota Prius to go a hundred miles an hour without a cliff to go over?
I mean, I this is the first time I have ever heard that one of these hybrids will do a hundred miles an hour, and if it will, what's the point?
How much fuel are you burning at a hundred miles?
How much damage are you creating to the environment when you're driving one of these things hundred miles?
I thought that one of the points of having these things was that you couldn't go out there and burn up a lot of gasoline and get lousy miles per gallon statistics and so forth and so on.
Uh so there may be I don't know.
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