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Aug. 10, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 10, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Could you guys stop pretending it's a sixth grade in there?
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Well, the Democrats had their forum last night with, well, an audience of gay people.
It was televised on the Logo network.
We have countless audio soundbites from this.
Mike Gravelle was not asked about the Spartans teaching homosexuality last night, but we will remind you ourselves that he said it.
Bill Moyer is on the warpath against me, upset that I am trashing beloved and respected journalists.
By the all of them, the drive-by media, he's terribly upset about this.
He's upset at Rupert Murdoch, too, upset at Fox News.
He's also upset that freelance journalists don't make any money if they do reports for NPR.
Never mind that PBS has made him a gazillionaire.
He's just having a tantrum.
He was speaking at some forum yesterday where the education of journalists was being discussed.
So obviously there was not much learning or teaching going on.
What else do we have out there?
We've got, oh, speaking of lawyers, we've got this poll, the latest Pew poll.
I'm sure you've heard about it by now.
More than half of Americans say that U.S. news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on.
This is the Pew Center for People in the Press.
More than two-thirds of internet users said they felt that news organizations don't care about the people they report on.
59% said their reporting was inaccurate.
64% they were politically biased.
This is devastating stuff.
But I'm going to tell you what, folks, I am really proud of this because these three elements are exactly the nature of my 19-plus years of criticism of the drive-by media.
They don't care.
It's the one business where the customer's an idiot and is always wrong.
And if the customer complains, the news business say, oh, yeah, you dare insult us.
Well, here, take more of what you don't like.
And meanwhile, circulation dwindles, ad pages dwindles, the birdcages are suffering because newspapers are cutting the size of the paper.
I've also said that they, of course, are politically biased and inaccurate.
They just get it wrong a lot of times.
And that is why Moyers obviously upset, knew this was out.
So we'll get to all that.
Let's see.
Shockingly good news, by the way.
This is in a Wall Street Journal editorial today.
Which has been, here's a pop quiz.
Which has been the most important in reducing poverty over time?
A, taxes?
B, economic growth.
C, international trade, or D, government regulation.
What would you say, Brian?
A, B, you weren't even listening, right?
B, good.
Superb economic growth.
There's something John Edwards needs to learn real fast.
Get this.
According to the journal, you'd be pleased to know that 53% of U.S. Has Scruel seniors also answered B, that economic growth is the most important factor in reducing poverty.
It comes for the latest version of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
They ask this question among others on economics, and the results will not please members of the Socialist International, or for that matter, the Senate Finance Committee, or for that matter, the Democrat Party.
Since its founding in 1969, the National Assessment of Educational Progress has become something of an annual exercise in American educational masochism.
Last year, only 54% of students met the basic standard, the equivalent of a passing grade on the science test.
The previous year tested history at a mere 47% passed.
But when knowledge of economics was tested this year, let's just say the supply curve shifted.
They reported this week that 79% of 12th graders passed the first ever national economics test.
Holy Hayek, as in Friedrich von Hayek.
79%.
The exam taken by a representative sample of 12th graders at public and private hassrules tested the students on micro and macroeconomic principles and international trade.
What, for example, is the effect of breaking down trade barriers between countries?
A majority correctly said that goods would become less expensive, which is true.
They do.
They chose this over the quality of goods available would decrease.
Maybe Edwards needs to go hire some of these high school people for his economics advisory team.
Anyway, that's great news.
Also, milk price is skyrocketing out there now.
Average retail price of a gallon of milk.
I would not know this because I have fine calcium and bones and don't, well, I do have milk on cereal, but I don't buy it.
So, but you know what a gallon of milk is, Don, just off the top of your head right now, what is it where you go to the store?
I should just buys it and doesn't really look.
I guess most people snurdly, you have any idea?
Oh, you're a vegan.
You don't.
Yeah, you drive, you walk by the milk section, you probably get sick.
Organic milk.
Ah, well, you know what organic means?
Feces.
That's what it means.
That's what it means.
Anyway, the average retail price.
It's going to make, that's going to make the health food people really freak.
The average retail price of a gallon of whole milk, never been higher, $3.80 a gallon, according to the stats from the Department of Agriculture last month.
Experts blame the increase, which is up 51 cents a gallon since February, on milk shortages in Europe and Asia.
But, but, also playing a smaller role in the price spike is higher demand for corn-based ethanol fuel, according to the USDA.
Increased demand for corn pushes up costs for cattle feed, which is then added to the price of milk.
It's why there is a steak shortage at some of the finest steakhouses in New York.
Ethanol.
Well, because we import milk.
Well, no, we import more.
Obviously, we import milk.
If there's a milk shortage in Europe and Australia, it's a supply and demand thing anyway.
I mean, we export milk, I'm sure, too.
Or it's a total supply and demand thing.
No question about it.
Everybody's asking me, rush, What do you think of the market?
What should I do?
What shouldn't I do?
It's an interesting question, and I'll attempt to tackle that in a way that you may not expect.
Right after the break, plus all these great audio soundbites are coming up, plus your phone calls, because it's Open Line Friday.
Hi, welcome back.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limboy, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, angst, chaos, torture, humiliation, and even the good times.
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I don't know why people ask me, but they ask, well, what should I do in the market?
What shouldn't I do?
I counsel patience.
The fundamentals here are fine.
But look at this.
I was looking at U.S. SNUS and World Report, the issue dated August 6th, 2007.
And on the cover of that issue is this blurb.
If you had invested $1,000 with Warren Buffett in 1956, $1,000, you'd have $27 million today.
50 years, a virtual lifetime of employment, $1,000 to $27 million.
That's 27,000 times your investment.
But Rush, but Rush, what's the money?
Not Warren Buffett.
What are you talking about?
Forget Warren Buffett here, folks.
Warren Buffett's not the point.
Look at the lessons of the words, 50 years.
50 years, look at how many market corrections there have been.
You know what a market correction is, Snerdley?
A market correction is defined as a market going down 10%.
The market goes down 10%, and the experts up there, we've had a correction.
We've had lots of corrections in 50 years.
We've gone up, we've gone down.
We've had crashes.
The 87 crash, everybody was panicked left and right.
We've had the Jimmy Carter years.
We've gone, and we've gone sky high, too.
And the point is, in 50 years, if you start investing things and just leave it alone and be patient, in 50 years, $1,000 with Warren Buffett would today be worth $27 million.
There have been some pretty real panics in those 50 years, and there have been some imagined panics.
I know you're still saying, but Rush, but Rush, I'm not Warren Buffett.
I know that.
Lesson two, Warren Buffett's smart, but don't think that he's a soothsayer.
Don't think he leaves the market before tops and reinvests before bottoms.
I mean, he doesn't, nobody can predict what's going to happen when.
He makes investments in good companies.
He accepts the downs of corrections in bear markets over the long haul.
His methods are not secret.
Anybody can learn them.
Do you mean, Rush, I can make 27,000 times my money?
No, no, no.
That's not what I'm saying here, folks.
Just I wanted to use that example because it was on Newsweek.
But you could be one-tenth as good or 100th as good.
Remember, you're not starting with just a single $1,000.
That's just an example.
Try $1,000 a year that you invest, or try $1,000 a month, whatever you have, and then add it up over 50 years.
This takes us to lesson four.
And this is the real point about all this.
Just think, if your social security withholdings were invested for those 50 years, not just $1,000, Even half of your quote-unquote contributions, the FICA on your pay stub, imagine that's invested and you leave it alone from the minute you start working until the day you retire.
Yep, the market's going to go up and down.
It's going to have corrections.
There's going to be bear markets.
There's going to be imagined and predicted crashes.
Just like there have been, you can take any 50 years period of the stock market and you're going to find those same up and downs.
But over those 50 years, whatever you start and whenever you end, you're going to find a market way up over when it started at the beginning of the 50 years.
So this Social Security business, when they tried to reform it, the president wanted to reform it and let people invest a portion of it.
You know, you have a market like today and a Democrat, oh, no, everybody's going to lose everything they've got.
And of course, inexperienced people, no, you're going to lose it.
Leave it alone.
And you don't panic.
Now, if you're looking for signs yesterday's volume on the stock market lower than the day of the last big drop 10 days ago, that's an encouraging tea leaf.
And the Fed has pumped, you know, twice today.
They've pumped a bunch of money into the liquidity markets.
And it is causing the market to come back a little bit, rallying a little bit from it.
It just started tumbling again when it opened.
But patience, patience, patience.
Take any 50-year period, start to end, and you'll find a market that's way up over when it began.
Let's start with the audio soundbikes here, ladies and gentlemen, from last night's human rights campaign forum with the Democrat presidential candidates.
The moderator was Melissa Etheridge, and she had this exchange with the Democrat frontrunner, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I remember when your husband was elected president, I actually came out publicly during his inaugural week.
It was a very hopeful time for the gay community.
For the first time, we were being recognized as American citizens.
It was wonderful.
We were very, very hopeful.
And in the years that followed, our hearts were broken.
We were thrown under the bus.
We were pushed aside.
All those great promises that were made to us a year from now.
Are we going to be left behind like we were before?
Well, you know, obviously, Melissa, I don't see it quite the way that you described, but I respect your feeling about it.
I think that we certainly didn't get as much done as I would have liked, but I believe that there was a lot of honest effort going on by the president, the vice president, and the rest of us who were trying to keep the momentum going.
Well, what are we talking about here?
Does anybody have the slightest clue?
I don't.
I don't know what promises were made.
What promises does Melissa Etheridge remember Bill Clinton having made?
And then when did they get thrown under the bus?
When did they get for what?
I mean, you can say, don't ask, don't tell, but I mean, I don't think she's talking about that.
And of course, there's Hillary.
Well, it could have been a lot more done.
And these people had eight years to do all of this stuff.
And they didn't get it.
You know, we were talking the other day when we had the questions at the AFL-CIO forum at Soldier Field.
And all these union guys parade up there to the microphone, start asking their questions.
They've been voting Democrat for as long as they've been alive.
Their lives are miserable.
Their future is bleak.
They want to know what's wrong with America.
What's the president going to do to fix it?
They keep voting for them.
It's like, you know, battered wife syndrome.
People don't understand a battered woman syndrome.
Women just hang around even though they get abused.
Nobody can understand it.
And, I mean, there are psychological explanations for it.
They're battered liberal send them for crying out loud.
The liberals in this country have been battered by the Democrat Party for all these years, and they just keep going back to them.
And here's another example.
Here's Melissa Etheridge got thrown under the bus.
Couldn't trust the one group they gave all their money to, the Democrats couldn't trust them, didn't get delivered.
What are they going to do?
Going to go back and vote for them all over again.
Definition of insanity.
Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
When a different result's impossible.
Etheridge says to Hillary, this next answer, get this.
Melissa Etheridge said, well, why not be the leader now?
Well, I think I am a leader now.
If I were sitting where you are.
Wait a minute.
You think?
You think you are a leader?
Did you cue that back up to the top?
Well, I think I am.
I think I'm a leader now.
Tell you what, you know, this question really put them off.
I know what's happening here, folks.
They are duty-bound to go out and address this group, and they're duty-bound to go out there and pander to them and say whatever.
But they got to be really, really, really careful because this thing is on television.
They have to be real careful how they pander here.
And so she's, Hillary's, you know, she's back on her heels here with this because she's being very, very defensive because this thing is being televised.
Plus, you don't want to anger this bunch.
There was a story the other day, and I forget the source of the story.
I had it in the stack.
I didn't get a chance to get to it.
It was that the endorsement of political figures by gay and lesbian groups and individuals has no impact on the American population at large in terms of how they're going to vote.
So this is about fundraising here and the Democrats.
They got to be very careful talking about gay marriage here.
They know what the mood of the country is on that.
So here's her answer again to the question, why not be the leader now?
Well, I think I am a leader now.
If I were sitting where you're sitting with all you have gone through in the last 14 years, I'm sure I would feel exactly the same way because, you know, not only did you bravely come out, but you've had health challenges and so much else.
And so time can't go by slowly.
You want things to move as quickly as possible, which I, you know, understand and wish could happen as well.
Man, that was bold, folks.
That was just, that was bold.
That's Mrs. Clinton at her boldest best, wasn't it?
You know, Democrats say they want openly gay people in the military.
They all want to open up all these doors and so forth.
How about an openly gay running mate?
How about that?
Seems to me that these Democrats candidates need to be put to the test.
The military says openly gay people in the ranks would be disruptive.
The same can't be said of a gay running mate, can it?
I mean, if gays are no different in terms of civil rights than blacks, then why won't a Democrat candidate commit to running with a gay person on the ticket?
That would be real leadership.
We got the first female.
We got the first black here.
Where's the gay running mate if they're really serious?
What do you mean, gonna have a good time?
We're in the middle of a good time.
More fun than a human being should be allowed to have here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, right?
Back to the human rights campaign forum in Los Angeles with the Democrat presidential candidates.
I got to go out there this afternoon.
I'll be in Los Angeles for the weekend.
Timing worked out here.
Melissa Etheridge says to candidate Bill Richardson, do you think homosexuality is a choice or is it biological?
It's a choice.
I don't know if you understand the question.
Do you think a homosexual is born that way?
Or do you think that around seventh grade we go, ooh, I want to be gay?
I'm not a scientist.
I don't see this as an issue of science or definition.
I see gays and lesbians as people as a matter of human decency.
It's hard when you are a citizen of a country that tells you that you are making a choice when you were born that way.
And your creator made you that way.
And there's a document that was written 200 years ago that says you are entitled to certain rights that you are not given.
What the hell happened?
Didn't there be anything other than absolute equal rights for homosexuals?
Well, that's always been my view, as I said.
Hank, this is a Melissa Etheridge forum.
You know, the Democrat candidates were there just as a bunch of pawns.
Did you catch the way this began?
Do you think homosexuality is a choice or is it biological?
And then Richardson said it's a choice.
Etheridge said, I don't think you understand the question.
Why did you ask it?
Is that your final answer?
Why did you ask the question?
I don't think you, I mean, there's obviously only one answer to that question.
So she gave him a chance to slither back into it, and he was lost.
Had no clue.
I mean, some people are good panderers and some aren't.
Now, Etheridge and Edwards, the Brett girl, have this exchange.
I have heard that you have said in the past that you feel uncomfortable around gay people.
Are you okay right now?
Yes.
It's okay.
I'm perfectly comfortable.
It's not true.
It is uncomfortable.
I take that back.
I'm perfect.
I correct you.
No, I know where it came from.
He came from a political consultant, and he's just wrong.
And Elizabeth and I were both there, and both of us have said he's wrong.
Well, let's go back.
Let's review what Mrs. Edwards' recollection of the Shrum incident is.
Shrum wrote in his book, you know, that Edwards said he was asked about gay rights and so forth.
And I'm uncomfortable around those people.
It's what Shrum wrote in the book.
Even more troubling was an exchange we had one afternoon.
We're throwing around questions and answers in his law firm's conference room.
What's your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay rights, I asked.
I'm not comfortable around those people, was how he began his answer.
You were there, Elizabeth.
This is on late edition of Wolf Blitzer.
What really happened?
I believe that Bob Shrum brought up the issues of gays and lesbians.
And John said, you know, I come from a small southern town, Baptist, you know, as far as I know, I don't know.
You know, he said, honestly, an abstract issue for me because he said, you know, I don't really know, as far as I know, know any gay people, you know, so sort of talked to me about it.
And I said, well, actually, you do.
And I said, I referred to a friend of mine from English graduate school and how John and I went out for the evening.
I saw this old friend from English graduate school when we were still in law school.
And I went over and spoke to him, and I knew that he was gay.
And I said, you know, I'm engaged.
There's the fellow over there I'm engaged to.
And he said, oh, he's awfully cute.
I might snake him if he wasn't with you.
And I told John that, and this is where he used the word uncomfortable.
He said, that made me feel uncomfortable.
So Bob correctly remembers the word uncomfortable, but incorrectly remembers the circumstances in which he said it.
I mean, all of us feel uncomfortable about someone trying to snake us in the presence of our fiancé.
And that made him feel uncomfortable.
John talked about that.
So he remembers it slightly, but it remembers it incorrectly.
I remember things in quite good detail from years ago, and I remember this conversation very clearly.
And I have talked to John about that, and he does recall exactly the same thing.
Right.
I talked to John, and we got our talking points straight.
Now he sees it that way, too.
That's the official family position on this.
So she has to explain there why the potential snaking made John Edwards uncomfortable.
So Edwards then shows how tough he is.
It's time to take the obligatory shot at Ann Coulter, Jonathan K. Park, the Washington Post.
Senator Edwards, when you were the VEEP nominee in 2004, many gays and lesbians felt they were being used as a scare tactic by the right wing and the Republican Party, and the Democrats didn't do anything to defend them.
Why should the gay community think that it will be defended this time by you?
Melissa mentioned my wife, Elizabeth.
I was very proud of Elizabeth for taking Ann Coulter on and taking her own head off.
If you stand quietly by and let it happen, what happens is it takes hold.
And it takes hold, and then people begin to believe it's okay.
You know, it's okay to use the kind of language that Ann Coulter uses.
It's okay for the Republicans in their politics to divide America and use hate-mongering to separate us.
I'll tell you, is this as painful for you people listening to for me?
I mean, this is pathetic.
This is literally pathetic.
This is pure pandering.
These people haven't got the guts or the courage to say what they really think in front of this group because all it's about here is money.
They are big donors to the Democrat Party, and this is what they've got to do to get it.
They got to go out there and make all these promises.
But these poor people in the gay community out there in this forum are going to end up being like those poor people in Chicago at Soldier Field, a bunch of battered libs, feeling sold out, left out, disappointed.
Once again, when it's all said and done, there is one guy out there, ladies and gentlemen.
There is one guy who is willing to speak his mind about homosexuality.
That's the former Senator Mike Gravelle.
He was not asked the question about Sparta yesterday.
He was asked how he convinces his generation of straight white men on gay issues.
My generation?
Most of them are wrong.
Pretty good wrong.
When I was a kid, there's a lot of homophobia around me.
I can recall when the gay issue was, what, 55% opposed, 40% for.
And lo and behold, now, if you're talking about the gay issue general, it's probably 55%, almost 59% for, and the rest are in the dustbin of history.
The same thing's going to happen with the marriage issue.
I'll tell you, I'll make you a promise.
Five years from now, the marriage issue will be a non-issue in the next presidential campaign.
Just that same thing.
So he's out there.
He's willing to tell them what he thinks.
He's not pandering around.
He doesn't care who in the general population he offends with that because he knows he's not going to get the nomination.
Now, let's give you another example of the boldness and the cast it all aside and proceed down the fork in the road, taking both pathways.
Mike Gravelle in New Hampshire at a gay rights.
What was it?
Gay rights.
It was a gay rights.
I was like a, well, I don't know.
It was an event, gay pride event.
You know something?
Clinton was dead wrong, dead wrong on that issue.
It's ridiculous.
He was trying to be mousy and in the middle.
When Clinton got to be president, the first thing he's doing, he's standing on two legs, waffling back and forth.
Oh, don't tell us you're gay.
What are you talking about?
If you had any knowledge of history, ancient history, in Sparta, they encouraged homosexuality because they fight for the people they love.
And if it's your partner and you love them, you're prepared to die for them.
And that's the same ethic you see in the military today.
It's not the country.
It's my partner.
Go see the movies on war, and it's always the person next to me who's in my foxhole with me.
Well, I got to tell you, extend that a little further, and you'll see why the Spartans trained their people to be homosexuals because they were better fighters.
It's Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh program.
I've got one more soundbite.
This is from the aftermath, the post-show wrap-up last night after the Logo Network's forum with a human rights campaign and the Democrat candidates.
This is comedian and actor Alec Mappa giving his analysis of the performances last night of the Democrat presidential candidates.
Dennis Kucinich seemed like a magical person, like he was born in a flower and came to life out of, you know, it was like he was like being in the presence of like Santa Claus.
Bill Richardson seemed like Eeyore, you know, from Winnie the Pooh, kind of like, well, you guys, it's the best I can do.
Edwards kind of came across as a little patronizing to me.
Obama looked me right in the eye, shook my hand, and told me that he loved me.
So on a personal note, you know, I'm going to be having dreams.
But the one who really changed the temperature in the room tonight was Hillary.
It felt like she was one of us.
It felt like, I don't know, the other ones kind of felt like there were other candidates that came in like, hi, gay folks.
How are you?
I'm safe to be here, you know.
Overline Friday, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, and we go to Fresno in California to start with Bridget.
You're first today on Open Line Friday.
Hey, how are you?
I'm fine.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm good.
I'm so excited to talk with you.
You know, I have to say, you truly are the most optimistic man in America, and you just crack me up with your observations.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I called yesterday about something else, but what I wanted to ask you is I'm going to be starting golf lessons later this month.
Oh, no.
And I know.
Why?
Another woman on the golf course.
Well, I'll try and take it slowly in those little cards.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just looking.
I was up late last night.
I'm in one of these giddy moods.
So don't take any of this stuff personally.
I just thought, you know, I just lost it.
It was just me that was making you giddy, Rush.
Don't.
Yes.
You're right.
You're right.
Did I tell you that Rush is one of my all-time favorite guy names?
No, but you just did.
Quick, let me ask you a question, Bridget.
Before you get the golf business here, because I got a great way of teaching women to play golf, if you're interested.
Private lessons?
Well, yes.
You start out with the irons.
You gradually work our way into the woods.
Okay.
I love it when you flirt.
It's an old joke.
What's the question about golf?
Well, I love your optimistic attitude, and I love that you have a passion for the sport.
So I want to know, since I have no background, nothing frequency going into this, what insight or pearls of wisdom would you share with me so that I can develop the same kind of passion for it that you have?
Well, all I can just tell you is why I have this passion for it.
A, it's beautiful wherever you go to play.
B, you're always with friends doing it.
You're with people you choose to be with.
C, when I'm out playing golf, I don't think about anything else.
I am totally absorbed in it.
I remember when I worked for the Kansas City Royals, a lot of players, when they had an off day, just couldn't wait to go fishing.
And I'm not a big fisherman.
I caught 22 bluegill one day, and I didn't get the smell off my hands when I was like 10 years old for like a month.
So I just think I can still smell it.
But I said, what is it about fishing?
They get away from it all.
I don't think about anything else when I'm doing it.
And that's, I now know what they meant because that's what golf is to me.
But it's a test.
You can measure your improvement each time you play.
You're playing against the course and yourself.
And it's also, you'll find out everything you want to know about somebody playing around a golf with them.
You'll find out if they quit.
You'll find out if they cheat.
You'll find out if they have honor.
You'll find out about their sense of humor.
You'll find pretty much everything you want to know.
But the great thing that it does, it tests you mentally.
And golf, you know, all things being equal, and once you get your lessons underway and you swing down pet where you can actually hit the ball, it's going to be 80% in your head.
And not getting down on yourself and not thinking you can't do it, and wanting to give up, not getting frustrated, because there's always the next shot.
And anything can happen.
And it's, you know, I still get mad at it.
I still blow up.
Well, I don't blow up, but internally I blow up.
And that's what the great test is, maintaining an even emotional keel.
In fact, you go to PGA Tour, Bridget, those guys, they can all hit it.
They can all chip.
They can all put.
Tiger Woods may be better at it than all the rest of them, but what he's really better at is ignoring everything else going on around him and focusing on just his performance and what he has to do and not be affected by anything else he sees somebody else does and not being affected by when he screws up, which he does a lot.
It's just a great, great, great mental exercise.
Plus, there is something, Bridget, as a guy, there is something nearly orgasmic hitting the ball 300 yards down the middle off the tee.
Just nearly, I said, nearly.
Well, I must say, I think I'm looking forward to it even more now.
What made you want to pick it up?
Well, my mom actually has a set of really nice golf clubs that she offered to give me.
And my husband's a musician and he plays gigs occasionally at golf courses.
And I was out there one day helping him set up.
And I heard these guys, I guess, I don't know if they call it the driving range where it lines up.
And I heard him hit that ball.
And it was that huge whack kind of sound.
And I just thought, you know what?
I think I might like that.
Yeah, the whack sound does it every time.
I know exactly what you mean and what you're talking about.
It is fun when you hit the ball right, when you flush it, meaning when you hit it on the screws, meaning when you hit it in the center of the club face, it's just, it's, I'm telling you, it is so sweet.
It really is.
It looks easy until you get up there and do it.
Well, I tell you what, if I get out of it, what you shared with me is possible.
I can see why you are passionate about it.
I love the fact that it's just so much more than hitting a little white ball around the grass.
If you take it seriously, it is.
If anybody goes out and plays it, if that's all it is, then they're not going to enjoy it.
They're going to say, when's this over?
This is stupid.
Hitting this white ball around this cow pasture.
What am I doing here?
But if you understand what it's all about and really use it as a measure of your improvement every time you play, and you can see that.
Everybody likes getting better at everything they do.
Yes.
And that's a great sense of achievement.
And golf is one of those things that anybody can really go play.
It looks so seductive.
Ball's not moving.
You go try to hit somebody throwing a fastball 95 miles an hour at you with a round bat.
That's hard.
This looks easy.
Ball's not moving.
It's just sitting there waiting to be whacked, as you say.
And then you try it and you find out it is not as easy as the great ones make it look.
But I hope you love it.
I hope you have a great time with it.
I hope so too.
Okay, Bridget.
You take care.
We'll be back here in just a second, folks, on Open Line Friday.
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