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July 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 12, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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That's right, we're back.
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A couple days ago talked about Senator McCain and the problems he's having in his campaign, how the drive-by media is out there saying, Oh, it's his problem here is he supported a war, troop buildup, he's uh too closely identified with uh George W. Bush.
No, we're all just incredulous.
How can they miss this?
How can they the the blinders that these people in the drive-by media were, and they all do.
It's amazing the groupthink.
And we went through the list of things that had harmed McCain, starting with McCain Fine Gold Gang of 14, uh the the fact that he was uh you know, against tax cuts, uh immigration, uh the wrong side, you know, putting his arms around Ted Kennedy and so forth.
I mean, those are the things he was never the front runner in the first place.
He was he was a drive-by media darling from the from the bus tour back in 2000, the uh Straight Talk Express.
So I have here a sources from.
This is from the Chicago Sun Times, Robert Novak, in fact.
Staff shakeup gives fading McCain a chance.
You go to the end of the piece.
McCain's slim down campaign will concentrate on early contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
A new campaign guy, far more adept than uh the old campaign guy at singing McCain's praises.
Listen to this.
McCain's supporters hope his eloquent support for the Iraq intervention will earn him backing from the Republican base.
Now, this is not this is in a drive-by paper, but it's not the drive-by media.
This is Robert Novak.
So, once again, Russia's right.
McCain's supporters hope his eloquent support of the war will revive and resuscitate his uh his campaign.
Now here's a story.
This is, I think, from the Raleigh News and Observer, the headline, schools want sun shelters for hot kids.
Principals of at least eight year-round wake county scruels worried about how children will cope with scorching summer heat.
What a raise thousands of dollars to erect large canopies and shelters over playgrounds.
A handful of wake scruels have the shelters, which are more common in places like Las Vegas.
At least one has erected a 40-foot by 60-foot shelter that covers the entire playground at a cost of 25 big ones.
Even less extravagant shelters can still cost 7500.
Um what's uh surprising to me, but I didn't know if they let kids outside anymore.
I can think cancel recess, can't play tag, can't play uh dodgeball.
Now they're letting them outside, they're subjecting them to all kinds of scorching temperatures in the summer.
Global warming, and of course cancer, melanoma, uh it's uh.
See that I just heard something from uh Dawn just told me some of your daughters doing sh uh yeah Yeah, would you would you explain to me how in the world where was this when I was in school?
She I was just told that Jessica's 15 or 16.
16 years old takes P.E., physical ed online.
So she doesn't have sweat.
In the summertime.
I know you don't want to mess your hair up for the boys in the I don't I don't even I I don't even want to know.
I think I'm is this a joke?
I'm being set up.
It's not a joke.
PE online.
Uh you have to uh Oh, well, gee, wait.
I I hate to be a dunce on this, but you know, I fortunately have no kids, so I'm not aware of these latest modernized techniques for physical education.
Apparently, P. E. Online.
You run around a block A couple times, take your pulse before and after, report back to the teacher.
Do you realize how easy it'd be to fake that?
Oh, where was this one?
Okay, so they're gonna put they're gonna put these uh shelters up.
I guess it's a big deal in North Carolina.
They want to open the schools year-round uh to save money.
Um save money.
Opening schools year in Pittsburgh.
The schools there, Pittsburgh Public Schools will drop public from its name and adopt a new standardized way of referring to its scruels as part of a campaign to brighten and strengthen the district's image.
For example, Shenley High School will be called Pittsburgh Shenley.
Superintendent Mark Roosevelt's staff unveiled a policy at a Scrollboard Education Committee meeting a couple nights ago, and under the policy the district simply will call itself the Pittsburgh Schools, a district's logo, a pattern of circles, triangles, and squares uh will still be used.
By dropping public from its name, said Randall Taylor, the district might be able to avoid the negative attitude often associated with public school.
Let me tell you, people in Pittsburgh something.
It has nothing to do with what you call it.
It's it's called results.
You just you have to you you just have to marvel at bureaucrats and the way they tackle a problem.
Don't fix the problem.
Fix a name that uh maybe get rid of the bad image, but don't fix the problem.
And don't get mad at me if I love Pittsburgh.
Don't I live there for four or five years in the early 70s?
I just bureaucrats are bureaucrats, Democrats, Democrats, Liberals, or liberals.
Never fix the problem.
Just try to change the image.
How can we fool them today?
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One tomorrow with Walter Williams.
Hopefully won't botch it.
We better write a memo, maybe even a script for Walter on this, because he's gonna want to get on to other things pretty fast.
Quick time out, folks.
Don't go away.
We're coming right back with all the rest of this hour's busy broadcast.
Okay, let's see.
Let's let's go to this fat tax business.
This is this is uh this is this is this story is a classic.
It is a perfect illustration of the of the way liberals and socialists do everything they can to try to control as much of our lives as possible.
Now, right now, this is just London, but you know this fat tax has been proposed here, too.
A fat tax on salty, sugary and fatty foods, Could save thousands of lives every year, according to a study published today.
Researchers at Oxford University say that charging value added tax at 17.5% on foods deemed to be unhealthy would cut consumer demand and reduce the number of heart attacks and strokes.
The purchase tax already levied on a small number of products like potato crisps, ice cream, confectionary, chocolate biscuits, but most food is exempt from the VAT.
The move could save an estimated 3200 lives in Britain every year, according to the study.
A well-designed and carefully targeted fat tax could be a useful tool for reducing the burden of food-related disease.
Food related disease.
See that food related disease.
Salt, sugar, fatty foods.
All natural substances.
All substances found on Earth, just by the way, as is oil.
Now, they said, however, that their research only gave a rough guide to the number of lives that could be saved.
Of course, no, we wouldn't want you to be specific because then you could be tied to it.
They said more work was needed to get an exact picture of how taxes could improve public health.
This is how they operate, folks.
Any fat.
Now get this.
You know how formulaic the drive-by media is.
Can I ask your question?
Who would be hurt most by an increase in the fat tax?
Who would be hurt most?
Just take a wild guess.
Who?
The poor and women and minorities.
It's a formula.
I don't care what the story, war, women and minorities, hardest hit.
And here it is in this story.
Any fat tax might be seen as an attack on personal freedom and would weigh more heavily on poorer families and minorities, the study warned.
Um this is right off the script for these socialists, folks.
The tax is in keeping with the these fat people cost socialized health care systems more money.
Uh and they're dying, and plus we're having to spend so much money on them before they die.
So what happens is first government takes over a private market function, which is you feeding yourself.
Then his costs of that function skyrocket because it's offered for free by compassionate socialists.
They have to find ways to cut costs after they make a boondoggle out of their own program.
But since they don't know the role of prices in free markets, they can't let prices adjust accordingly and make individuals choose the better uses of the product.
They have to find other ways of going about it.
They just aren't going to trust you to make the right decision for yourself.
You are incompetent, you are incapable.
You are eating the wrong things now, and you are going to keep eating the wrong things, and they're going to tax you to get you to stop eating the wrong things.
So they're going to do this, they're going to totally mess up the whole concept of market prices.
And when that happens, it's not just these three areas, salty, sugary, and fatty foods that are going to be affected.
And this is something the unintended consequences, things they never pondered.
Bill in St. Petersburg, Florida, thanks for waiting.
You're next in the EIB network.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I'm one that believes we can't win this war.
I'm an ex-Marine.
I spent two years in Vietnam.
I don't uh I love my Marines, don't get me wrong.
I can't see where you can go into a place that is the same thing as Vietnam, where your enemy eats, sleeps, drinks, walks, talks, and looks just like your friend.
You don't know who to fight.
And there's no way to win.
Oh, of course there is.
I beg your pardon.
We went through the same thing in Vietnam.
I can't, I can't believe every you know, you you're not the first.
And I just I can't believe attitudinally that we had people who actually believe the United States can't win.
Because I'm gonna tell you I tell you something, Bill.
If we can't beat these people, it's only a matter of time before our way of life as we know it's over.
I agree.
But There's other ways to go forward.
Well, then losing isn't an option.
But losing Well, you're right.
Losing uh winning the war the way we want to win is not an option.
We can't do it.
Ah, ah.
Now that's different.
You winning the war, but did you hear how Tony Snow defined victory?
I did, and I agree with you.
But No, you you don't.
You because you don't think we can win it that way.
He basically says we can't get out of there until the Iraqis can defend themselves against these insurgents, these terrorists.
If the Iranians attack the Iraqis have to be able to defend themselves, that's the definition of victory.
Okay, right that he offered.
And you you don't think that we can achieve that.
Go back to Vietnam.
We use nothing but start off with advisor.
This this isn't Vietnam.
In the first place, the Vietnamese never attacked us.
Like the Al Qaeda people have done.
It's the all these parallels I keep hearing about Vietnam.
We we lost that war.
We I argue we lost it.
We lost it because we mismanaged it, and we didn't try to win it.
It was not being fought with the people who know how to win wars.
And I I agree with that too.
But also the point I like to make is you you don't know who to fight when you're over there.
You you you sent your young men over there, and they shoot the wrong guy, and he lives with the rest of his life, or he gets punished for it, something like that.
We should be training the Iraqis to win their own war, or let them fight.
Well, that's what that's uh uh what we're doing.
And the interim report came out today saying that it's going well on the military side.
They said that these uh eight benchmarks.
Frankly, who are we to said benchmarks, but we did.
The leftists in Congress, and they're and the the Iraqis are out dying for their country now, and more and more of them are ramping up and being trained to do so.
And they know who the enemy is.
This is a gutless enemy in one way, I mean they hide behind women and children, they hide in mosques and so forth.
Uh at some point, Bill, what's gonna happen is, and I don't know how long it's gonna take, and we it's but what what what at some point we're gonna get the will to wipe them all out.
Wherever they're hiding, and whoever else goes with them.
At some point, we're gonna be so threatened and we're gonna be we're we're gonna realize enough Americans are gonna wake up.
I don't know when this is gonna be, but enough of them are gonna wake up and realize our way of life is threatened, especially if we don't pull this off over there if we cut and run.
At some point, people are gonna demand just wipe them all out.
They're raising all those little kids to hate anyway.
They're raising all these kids to be future terrorists, especially the young boys.
That's that's you know, you don't you find some people who say this is really a 30 to 40 year project if we can get started now on trying to get hold of these cultures.
That's another thing the Iraq experiment is about is to try to demonstrate that there's something more in life than strapping on a bunch of explosives and killing yourself.
You know, the leaders of this movement never do it.
The leaders of this movement are not out there dying for the cause.
They're using these little recruits that they moms and dads start it drilling all kinds of hatred into from the minute they can understand language.
How do you think how do you think these highly educated professional doctors at the National Health Service in the UK ended up wanting to blow up 1,400 people in a nightclub and destroy an airport.
And they were they were they were Brits.
They were in the system, they were trained to be doctors and so forth.
Though in addition to whatever medical training they got, they were filled with a boiling rage when they were growing up.
But it's happening all over that culture.
The militant Islamist faction of that culture.
Uh and and uh the more they think that they can get away with impunity, the more they think they can get away with attacking, and nobody's gonna do anything about them, uh, the bolder they're gonna get.
At some point.
We will do what it takes to deal with this.
We always have, and uh and we always will.
It's just we find ourselves in this situation right now where we're in the midst of all kinds of internal political hostilities in this country because the spoiled rotten little brat democrats just can't get over the nice thing that they haven't had the White House the last eight years.
It's just not fair.
It's their birthright to run this country.
They're the best people that do that.
So the hell with anything else, including national security, the hell with defending the country, the hell with the m morale of the troops, the hell with respecting anything that this country is trying to do to defend and protect these people.
It doesn't matter right now, right?
Matter what matters right now?
Only one thing, and that's destroying George W. Bush, destroying this presidency, and setting up a sweeping victory for their nominee in 2008.
And that is all they care about.
And they have allies in the drive-by media who care about the same thing.
Democrats and the media holding hands, running the country again with a monopoly.
That's their dream.
And a hell with whatever disasters they create in the interim.
And then they say, we'll fix all this stuff.
We'll deal with it when we uh in the meantime.
You've got a country that is undecided, you've got a country that's dispirited and demoralized, and you've got troops that are sub subjected to the same attempt of demoralization.
And frankly, it is it is a criminal shame that the Democrats are behaving the way they are.
But don't for a minute think that we can't win.
We can and we will.
I just had it here.
What did I do?
Ah, it's this Rudy and the firefighter story.
Ah, here it is.
I thought I put it at the top of the stack when I did.
This this is this is fascinating.
The um the what if the International Association of Firefighters yesterday afternoon in New York released a video full of angry testimony belittling Rudy Giuliani's support of New York City firefighters?
Uh and they're really they're they're they're just they're mad as Rudy's running around claiming he was a big leader and pulling everything together after 9-11, and he didn't do diddly squat.
Firefighters died, Rudy didn't care, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So this is being compared to a Swift boat attack.
And the uh uh the the news on this is portraying the Giuliani camp is seeking to avoid a Kerry type mistake.
Don't worry, media.
There's no comparison between John Kerry, who served in Vietnam and uh and Rudy Giuliani, because he's not a wuss.
He's gonna punch back at this.
You know what Carrie's problem was that what the Swift boat guys were saying was true.
I keep hearing all this he should have fought back.
What was he gonna say?
The Swift boat nobody has discredited anything the Swift boat veteran said.
The big problem is somebody charges you with uh something and it's true, what are you gonna do?
You do what Kerry did, you try to ignore it.
You don't elevate it so that it gets any more attention.
The problem is a Swift boat guys kept running the ads.
And the drive-by media, when are you gonna fight back?
Carrie's saying, When are you gonna defend me?
I shouldn't have to.
You drive bys are on my side.
When are you going to attack the Swiftboat guys?
So the drive-by said, okay, we will.
So they tried to attack the Swift boat guys.
The swift boat guys were undaunted.
They were undeterred, they had the facts on their sites.
Amazing what you can do when you have the facts when you have the truth, and when the people you're talking about know it and can't refute it.
All they can do is this is out of place in American politics, didn't they?
Why, this is this is this is hitting below the belt.
Why is this this unkind?
This is just uncalled for.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
That's all you can do.
Um, then you're kind of toast.
And speaking of the International Association of Firefighters.
Uh guess who was their candidate in 2004?
Uh, John Carey, who served in Vietnam.
They were all over the Kerry campaign in 04.
They backed him then.
They helped salvage a listing campaign in the primaries.
The uh president Harold Schaeberger was a constant fixture behind Kerry as he took the stage in Iowa and New Hampshire and other areas to claim victory on his way to uh winning the nomination.
Now the first blow came for from uh Giuliani came into release mocking the Union as the International Association of Partisan Politic, showing pictures of the uh union president uh Schaeburger standing with Kerry.
Campaign pointed out that the uh International Association of Firefighters has supported Democrat presidential candidates since 1998.
Giuliani's campaign also pointed out that Shapeberger has held a number of roles in Democrat organizations and has contributed financially only to Democrat candidates.
And don't forget the firefighters are called here.
Remember the firefighters that booed Mrs. Clinton.
The idea, this is another one of these union things where the leadership's coming out saying firefighters hate Rudy.
Firefighters think Rudy's phony baloney plastic man had a good time rocking rolling, but rank and file doesn't all think that.
But the leadership does.
So Rudy's fighting back, it's not going to be anywhere near the um the Swiftboat thing because Rudy can fight back with facts and figures.
This one interested me.
A new v new survey finds that uh sixty percent of working mothers do not want a full-time job.
Say what?
Sixty percent of working mothers don't want a full-time job.
Why, this is not good news for the feminists.
This is horrible news.
An increasing portion of America's working moms say their ideal situation would uh include a part-time job rather than working uh working full time or staying at home.
It's a Pew research center survey being released today.
Twenty-one percent of working mothers with children younger than eighteen viewed full-time work as the best arrangement, but that's down from thirty-two percent in nineteen seventy-seven.
That's a huge plummet.
Sixty percent of the working mothers said a part-time job would be best, up from forty-eight percent ten years ago.
Nineteen percent said not working at all would be ideal, roughly the same as in nineteen ninety-seven.
Uh Carrie Funk, a pew researcher on the survey said the trend reflected women's latest thoughts on the ideal arrangement for their children.
It's an expression of the difficulties of combining responsibilities at work and home.
Uh only sixteen percent uh of stay at home mothers.
There's a big shift in in their thoughts, too.
Uh only sixteen percent of stay-at-home mothers said their ideal situation would be to work full time outside the home, down from twenty-four percent in nineteen ninety-seven.
Well, uh the uh feminists are taking it here in the sh uh uh on the chin.
Uh problem could be solved with abortions, but they're not having abortions anymore, and not nearly as many.
They wouldn't have the problem of having the children determine uh how your day could best be spent.
Scott and Amarillo, Texas, you're next, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
Hey Rush, how are you today?
I'm fine, thank you, sir.
Rush, I've been an educator for twenty years, and in those twenty years I've seen a lot of changes in our educational system trying to keep up with the uh the technology of our society.
And uh I'm really concerned that our current educational system uh could possibly be, and I wanted to ask your opinion about this, could possibly be educating a generation of Americans out of the labor market.
And what I mean by that is uh, you know, no matter how technologically advanced our society becomes, we are always going to need uh bricklayers and concrete workers and road workers and steel workers.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
Illegal immigrants do that stuff now.
I I know, but my point is our current educational system is seems to be so geared to making everyone scientists and mathematicians.
And physicists, and I'm I'm just concerned that in thirty years we're going to have a generation of Americans that will not do labor, and the only people that will are the emigrants.
And uh that's uh, you know, I I know as an educator myself.
Well, now wait wait a second.
Uh two things here.
You may have a point, but how is it that we're educating people out of uh the manual labor market?
How how how do how does that happen?
When I have um uh kids in my school, uh the kids that I teach.
And uh I know that because of no child left behind, um, and the demand that it puts on myself as an educator.
Oh.
When I have when I have a kid who isn't passing uh the the subject that I teach.
Um it.
Uh it's it's as if I'm trying that they're trying to get me to get a kid who isn't who isn't gifted for math, he's not interested in math, and uh it's the educator's fault.
I'm not teaching it right.
Uh I need to get this kid interested.
I need to uh I need to teach a lot of people.
Oh, no, well, wait, wait a minute.
There's what what you're talking about kid.
What are we talking about here?
What wait.
Well, I personally I teach middle school.
That's that's junior has rule.
Right.
All right.
So but math is part of a well-rounded education.
Just because somebody wants you to get the kid to do well on his math scores does not mean you're steering him to MIT.
You do not have to be a good thing.
You know, people that lay bricks and people that run companies that hire bricklayers, and everybody in the world needs mathematics.
You have to have some kind of understanding in it.
Well, I'm not saying I know that every kid needs I mean, we need to teach these kids reading and writing and arithmetic.
Well, when are we going to start?
Yeah.
And I know that these things need to be done, and and but it just it seems that our current educational system is so focused on making everyone Einstein's that in thirty years we're going to have a generation of Americans.
Now I that's what I wanted to ask your opinion on that.
I look I res I respect your thoughts on it, and you're in the education system, but uh if that's our objective, we know it isn't working.
The scores prove it.
Uh we're we're we've got we got too much indoctrination going on in schools, too much stuff that doesn't even I mean I I'm happy to hear that they're making you teach math.
Sounds to me like you've got a problem with no child left behind.
Because you've got an accountability problem, and you got to get kids going into certain math and science because the scores were low, because there was no performance there.
And it doesn't just because I took all those courses.
Look at me.
You know, I'm not I'm not I'm not out in the high-tech fields and so forth.
I'm a common laborer.
This is a lunch pale job.
I can't be late.
I've got to be here when I've got to be here.
I've got to do a lot of work to get ready to be here.
Uh I don't get to go to lunch.
I don't do any of these things.
I'm I'm not I'm a lot of people uh that are out laying bricks in uh the and uh whatever the manual labor you're talking about, building roads and so forth, a lot of them got decent math scores when they were in school was because it was required it was called uh uh well-rounded education.
Now, the reason we were lagging behind is because rather than teaching math, we're teaching conflict resolution.
And uh we're teaching what a great guy Bill Clinton was.
Uh one or two sentences on Abraham Lincoln in your average history textbook.
I mean, they got a way out of whack here.
Um and we started punishing the achievers because well, it's uh humiliating this kid's doing too well.
Uh and so we couldn't offend the kids that weren't doing uh well and weren't really trying to push these high achievers to reach their potential.
Um but you know, an education is an interesting thing.
And one of the great things about an education is among other things, regardless of how you get it, is that it has the it's probably one of the key factors, not the only, and there are exceptions.
It's a key factor in how people figure out what they want to do in life.
So, if your kids happen to want to be physicists, encourage them.
If they want to be scientists, encourage them unless they want to go into global warming.
And then they won't be scientists, they'll be activists and politicians.
Uh the uh the the concern that you have that we're not gonna have people, enough people to do these um uh kind of jobs, I don't think that's gonna be the case whatsoever.
Because people are who they are.
And if you've got somebody that is is showing a bunch of kids showing an aptitude toward these uh high-level pursuits, get behind them.
Help them light the fire, help them get there.
And we're back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limboy.
America's real anchor man, doctor of democracy, and truth detector all combined into one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
We'll go to Houston next, and this is Evelyn.
Hello, Evelyn.
Nice to have you with us.
Well, thank you.
How are you, Rush?
I'm fine, never better.
Well, good.
I'm so glad I put this on recording.
And I just wanted to see uh what your opinion is.
I want to write a book about growing up in in the South in the twenties and thirties.
You think it's a stupid idea?
Of course not.
Well, I didn't I didn't think you would, or I wouldn't have called it.
Of course not.
Well, listen, uh how to will you help me?
I don't know exactly how to go about it.
But each chapter, Rush, would be something like uh you know, different it could be talking about our old nanny, which we love dearly.
Or we could be talking about new to short a boat like wait, Evelyn, hang hang on here.
Just just a second now.
Uh can I?
Uh is not it's not right to ask a woman her age.
Well, yeah, I don't mind telling you my age.
Okay, because I want to derming how much you've got to write about.
Plus, you said something that intrigued me, and I that that's really why I want to know your age.
You figure it up.
It was 1920.
Well, you're uh eighty-seven, you're eighty-seven years old.
Well, I'll and it tells you something, honey.
I always tell the people at church when they ask me how old I say, Well, you come to the funeral, you'll find out then.
So, so you had a nanny.
Oh, we did have a nanny.
And honey, we loved her so much.
When she was cooking in that kitchen, you better get out of there.
She'd fan that apron at it.
Oh, yeah.
And honey, it was more fun.
We just loved her so much.
In fact, I would think I would dedicate the book to her.
Then Evelyn, here's what you got.
I can you have uh a vibrancy, a buoyancy.
Oh, do what?
You have uh you have a vibrancy, a buoyancy, an energy level.
Uh uh and and you have you just what little that you've said about you by the way you the way you just project yourself.
You're very happy person.
Just sit down and start writing, Evelyn.
That's how you write a book.
And I'll uh you just Richard Nixon once said that to write a book you need an iron butt.
And what he meant is when you sit down, you've got to sit there and you keep writing, and you keep writing for as long as you can every day.
It's the only way it's ever gonna get done.
Yeah, but each uh each uh chapter, you know, would be about certain events that happen there.
Absolutely.
And uh well then sit down and you know, sit down and come up with your idea.
Organize organize your chapters and and what you want each chapter to be, and then put them in the order you think they ought to be.
They don't have to be in in chronological order.
You can uh do it it's your book.
You can do anything you want to do here.
But the key is to sit down and start writing it.
And I but you're gonna have more fun doing this than you can imagine.
I know it.
I think I will have fun.
And I obviously you're gonna have to you're gonna have to end this book with a chapter on uh on your listening to this program.
Oh, yes.
Yes, I would.
Oh in other words, uh it that's how you're gonna help me, huh?
Um, I'm not gonna write it for you.
Oh no, what kind of help?
What kind of help could I offer you?
Well, uh just give me give an encouragement.
That's that's what I need.
I pray all the time for for strength and encouragement.
But uh I don't work a computer much.
I I would have joined whatever you had going, but I don't have Well, you you would if you don't have a computer and you don't you would don't don't don't get you're gonna it's gonna mess up your f your flow.
You if if you if you write a book and you write long-handed, uh then that's how you should do it.
You don't want to get caught up in the mechanics of the writing.
And going to a computer would confuse you with the mechanics, and that would it would it would cause your brain to slow down, and you you need your brain at full speed, and so the writing cannot be mechanical.
Writing has to just be an extension, your hand and the pen have to be an extension of what's in your uh in your in your mind as fast as you can get it down on paper.
But the key to it uh there's no reason you shouldn't do this.
You'll find you'll have you'll uh you'll you'll start remembering things you think you remember everything now, but you'll remember things you have no clue that uh that happened, and uh you're vaguely may remember, but you'll have all kinds of things, Papa.
This would be a great thing for you to do.
And you sound like just the kind of personality to do it.
You love your life, you love your past, you've got stories you want to share with people.
Uh I guess it's a great thing.
I hope nobody's trying to talk you out of this.
Uh except maybe yourself for whatever reasons.
But don't do that.
Just sit down and and get started.
Uh and I th I think you'll have a uh great time.
Keep us keep us uh keep us posted too on uh on how your progress is, will you?
I I will.
I'll do that.
Okay.
And now I'll go for my walk, Rush.
Don't be terrible about how to do that.
Timing your timing is perfect because the show's over.
Oh, yes, your timing is perfect.
I it's not quite over, but I have to go to a commercial break here.
Okay, all right.
Have a good stroll up there, Evelyn.
It's great to have you on the program today.
All right, folks, that's it for today.
But uh Walter Williams will be here tomorrow.
I will be back on Monday, full week next week, and and uh Walter will have uh our seventh iPhone.
Eighth iPhone to give away tomorrow.
Have a great weekend, folks.
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