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Aug. 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 13, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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Have you you know I'm I'm watching these pictures of the gouge that's on the uh underside of the shuttle endeavor.
Another piece of foam came off of the external fuel tank, whacked the shuttle on the launch, and uh dug all the way through the uh the heat shield tiles.
A couple of them affected.
They're gonna have to do a spacewalk probably to fix it.
I mean, they're running heat tests on it, right?
You know this never used to happen until the environmentalists got hold of.
I forget what it is.
I think it was the Freon ban.
I could be wrong about something banned.
They had to go to this protective foam on the on the on the it was well, no, they it it it uh it might have something to do with asbestos, but but it's it's it's uh it was uh it was a refrigerant uh that they couldn't no longer use.
This stuff never used to happen.
Now it happens every law.
So we're more concerned about a meaningless silly environmental thing than we are the safety of the crew on these shuttles.
I just it it boggles my mind, folks.
It does.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
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Uh Barack Obama has put out a statement on the uh resignation announcement of Carl Rove.
Quote, Carl Rove was an architect of a political strategy that has left the country more divided, the special interests more powerful, and the American people more shut out from their government than any time and memory.
But to build a new kind of politics, it'll take more than the departure of a man or even an administration that constructed the old.
It will take a movement of everyday Americans committed to changing Washington and reclaiming their government.
Now, this guy went to that convention of these wacko kooks at the Daily Cause, the Yearly Cause thing.
Anybody can make a comment on political divisiveness aimed at Carl Rove having attended that is just beyond the pale.
Now last Tuesday night, the presidential candidates, Democrat presidential candidates, had their uh have their uh fashion show before the AFL CIO up there in Chicago, Soldier Field.
17,000 Union people in the audience.
And I don't know how I miss this.
The Chicago Sun Times has a story today that uh well, let's read the paragraph.
Another indication of how well the surge is going came in a little noticed remark that Mrs. Bill Clinton made Tuesday during the AFL's CIO presidential forum at Soldier Field, responding to a question about what the United States should do if after a troop withdrawal Al Qaeda should take over Iraq.
Clinton repeated her plan for pulling troops out.
She repeated for pull the troops out, but then said it's a possibility that Al-Qaeda would stay in Iraq.
And if that happens, I think we need to stay focused on trying to keep them on the run, as we currently are doing in Alan Bar province.
So pull us out of New York pull us out of Iraq, but then if Al Qaeda should stay, what does she think is going to happen if we pull out?
Then we need to go back in there and keep them on the run.
I mentioned this because of the story that that the new these two stories New York Times, one yesterday and the editorial today say we can't get out of there now.
So obviously, I'm right about this.
The New York Times is trying to provide her and all these other Democrats with cover.
Because the it's it's it's it's dawning on them now that we're not gonna get out of Iraq.
The president's not gonna succumb to the pressure.
I don't think there's gonna find enough Republican defectors in the Senate, the Democrats aren't to make that happen.
Probably have a veto-proof uh house on this.
Well, I don't think in the Senate that's that's uh the case yet, but uh uh the this is um I don't know how I missed that.
And even this guy that writes a story, Steve Humpley says, yeah, well, it was a little noted remark uh that she uh that she made.
Uh companies seeking to cut rising health care costs are starting to dock the pay of overweight and unhealthy workers.
Clarion Health and Indiana Hospital Channel Require workers who smoke to pay five dollars out of each paycheck starting in 2009 for workers deemed obese, as much as $30 will be taken out of each paycheck until they meet certain weight, cholesterol, and blood pressure standards.
Uh it's okay with the smoke.
Apparently, in this story, and this is uh this uh uh doesn't this it's okay with it.
It's in the Washington Times.
The smokers are okay with it, but the obesity thing is making people mad.
They think this is a civil rights question.
You can't dock my pay because of my weight.
That's a civil rights question.
They're all upset about it.
The obese obese crowds upset smokers seem content with it.
You know, we're funding health care for children with smoking.
We had a story in the first hour of the program that uh smokers are smoking less and buying less because of taxes.
The increased taxes, and the new tax increase hasn't even gone into effect yet.
Uh and so the evidence abounds, raise taxes, you diminish an activity.
You cut you cut back on it.
Uh however, as I said, I think one of the reasons is you can't smoke anywhere.
Skinny, undernourished people are off the hook.
Yep, they don't get any of their paid duct.
Cholesterol's normal, blood pressure's normal.
That's right.
They don't get any pay doctor.
Now, this isn't a health care company.
Uh have to have to point that out.
But nevertheless, the the the smoking thing.
I've always marveled.
Smokers ought to be the latest version of American heroes.
They single-handedly are funding children's health care.
And their taxes on cigarettes are going to go up a buck a pack if this ships thing signed into law by the president, and cigars are going to go up to $10 a stick in taxes.
Uh, and they're going to be fewer and fewer tobacco products sold.
Then what are the programs going to do?
Then what's going to happen?
But you have to throw in the fact that people are smoking less also because there's nowhere they can.
Uh outside the home, and but people don't stay home 24-7.
So it's probably uh multifaceted reasons uh for this for this happening.
But the smokers are the new huddled masses.
I mean, you ought to see it in New York.
Drive down the street 10 30 in the morning during morning break time, people huddled.
I don't care could be 30 below and snowing and they're out there.
What do you want to do, Mr. Limbaugh?
Smoke around all of us and give us cancer from Feckenham.
No, I'm not saying that, Mr. New Castratti.
I'm just I'm just pointing.
We got so many real problems, and we got ourselves all wrapped up in a bunch of meaningless garbage.
Uh that takes us away from all the constant attention on this low hand person and the Paris Hilton and so forth, as lead stories in news broadcasts.
Trumpet fanfare.
Time for an update.
Touch on some global warming news here.
Paul Shanklin sings as Al Gore.
It's the EIB network.
I am speaking over my own song so that competing programs don't steal it and use it themselves.
Here you have it.
That's Al Gore Ball of Fire, one of our three rotating global warming update themes, an amazing story here from Reuters.
This is so full of see I told you so'.
I mean, try the headline.
Scientists try new ways to predict climate risks.
Yes.
You heard uh correctly.
Scientists are trying to improve predictions about the impact of global warming this century by pooling estimates about the risk of floods or desertification.
Uh we feel certain about some of the aspects of future climate change, uh, like that it's going to get warmer, said Matthew Collins of the British Met Office, but on many of the details, it's very difficult to say.
What the hell does that mean?
We feel certain about some of the aspects of the future, like it's going to get warmer, but on many of the details, it's very difficult to say.
Which means they don't have a clue.
Which means they don't know.
The um the way that we can deal with this is a new technique of expressing the predictions in terms of probabilities, Collins told Reuters.
Scientists in the UN climate panel, for instance, rely on several complex computer models, which don't even take into account clouds and precipitation, uh, To forecast the impacts of warming in this century, ranging from changing rainfall patterns over Africa to rising global sea levels.
But these have flaws, says here, because of a lack of understanding about how clouds form, for instance.
Or how Antarctica's ice will react to less cold.
And reliable temperature records in most nations stretch back only 150 years.
Every argument I have made to not listen to these people.
They don't even I remember the big riff idea.
We don't have the slightest idea how clouds are formed.
We don't it nobody can predict what the percentage of cloud cover is going to be unless you got a big front coming through, and you know you're going to be overcast.
Well, on a day to day base, they can't do it.
They have no clue what how I mean they know the process.
They don't know how big they're going to be, don't know what their altitudes are going to be, no, nothing.
Under new techniques looking at probabilities, predictions from different models are pooled to produce estimates.
Meaning the flawed research we get from one model gonna be combined with the flawed research from another model, we're gonna come up with probabilities based on what these both of these flawed models say.
The uh approach might help quantify risks for a construction firm building homes in a flood prone valley.
If a flood prone valley is flood prone, they already know the risk.
It's like people building homes on the beach.
You know that it can happen, that there's gonna be a hurricane.
Can people still do it?
They're willing to take the risk.
Uh Collins said that uncertainties include how natural disasters out of human control affect the climate.
A volcanic eruption, such as Mount Punatubo uh in the Philippines in 1991 can temporarily cool the earth because the dust blocks sunlight.
And another sea, I told you so.
Now here's what's interesting about that passage to me.
They admit that a volcano is out of human control.
Well, tell me, if a volcano is out of human control, then how the hell is anything else involved in the weather inhuman control?
Somebody tell me this.
Oh look, oh man is destroying the planet, Mr. Limboy.
There's no question about this.
There's been documented consensus of scientists.
And then the P. The Resistance.
David Stainforth of Oxford University in England.
Climate science, a very new science.
We've only just begun to explore the uncertainties.
We should expect the uncertainty to increase rather than decrease in coming years, as scientists work to understand the climate.
That would complicate the chances of assigning probability.
Now, wait a minute.
Well, we've heard from any different bunch of groups is no this no question anymore.
Scientific consensus is there.
These guys say it could be even more and more uncertainty in the future.
More and more uncertain.
The more they learn, the more they realize they don't know.
Well, another Chinese corporate Titan is dead, this time not by execution, but by suicide.
When uh when Mattel Inc.
uh.
recalled nearly a million toys manufactured by Zhang Shuang's company.
He fought hard to find a way to resume sales to America.
They were the lifeblood of his firm, Lee Dur Industrial Company, LTD, and its lucrative share of the export boom driving China's economic growth.
But Zhang Shuhong's factories in the southern city of Foshan lay idle.
Workers started drifting off, fearing they would never start up again.
Then Chinese authorities sealed Zhang's ruin by announcing Thursday that he was prohibited from exporting toys until further notice because of the defects denounced by Mattel.
He was found dead in a company warehouse two days later, colleagues said, apparently having hanged himself in despair.
This is the guy they found lead in the toys that he was exporting to uh our kids.
And that's not the only thing, by the way.
A Chinese court handed down a one-year jail sentence yesterday to a Chinese newspaper reporter convicted of faking a story about steamed dumplings whose stuffing included cardboard.
Z. Bajia, 28, pleaded guilty to damaging the dumpling industry's reputation.
So three key well, this guy's not dead yet.
Uh but the corporate Titan killed himself.
The other guy was executed.
What company was he with?
What did he do that caused it to execute him?
Never forget.
Momentary memory labs.
Yeah, proved bad drugs.
Shipping bad bad drugs out of the maybe no, it wasn't shipping them out.
Bad drugs for people inside China, I think it was.
They might have yeah.
I don't think we've started importing drugs from China.
I mean, not legal drugs.
Uh Rick in Dayton, Ohio.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you here with us.
Thank you.
It's uh honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I I had uh well, I just heard uh it said again, and the same uh I saw Colin Powell on uh Meet the Press about a month or so ago, and he said the same thing uh you just mentioned there that uh we never found any weapons of mass destruction, and considering you know the five hundred canisters that have been in the news, I just kind of wondered how he can actually say that.
Well, nobody at any level of government saying anything other than that.
Um there's a reason for it, and I don't know what it is.
Uh the the best reason I've heard is that this this is this is the popular rumor in uh in in at high levels of credible people that I've talked to is that there everybody knows the weapons of mass destruction were there and because Saddam had used them.
Right.
And they were spirited out of there into Syria, and Russian trucks helped do the thing, and and uh it is said that the diplomatic concern of not alienating Russia and uh making this public is worth more than exposing the weapons of mass destruction.
Uh which I don't know if that's true.
That's just that's that's just uh what I hear.
But what what Powell would he's out there you know, they sent him up to the United Nations, all those pictures and all the testimony, so I mean he's gonna say there weren't any because he's he's he's uh the guardian of his own credibility inside the uh meltway beltway.
And that's that's the primary reason for that.
This Patricia St. Cloud uh Florida it is.
Nice to have you with us on the program.
Hi, Raj.
Hi.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, here you just fine.
First of all, I'm very honored to speak to you, but I also told your call screener that maybe I shouldn't, because I'm very angry at you right now.
Oh no, what did I do?
Well, I don't I think maybe I just didn't hear you, but I think when that guy called in about Mertha, that you told him you were saving the country and we didn't need to bother to fax or email or send Mertha any you know censoring kind of emails because of what he had done about the Hadith of Marines.
I'm gonna pull a Bill Clinton here and deny it.
You didn't hear me right.
I didn't I never said it.
Just a few minutes ago?
No, didn't it didn't happen.
What did you say?
Snerdley, I'll tell you, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna suspend you.
This it was a it was it was It was a joke and I didn't get it.
How long have you been listening to the program?
Um a little consistently.
Well, just yeah.
A little over a year.
A little over a year.
Well, see, sometimes it takes longer than that to uh learn everything that can happen on this program.
I was I was being flamboyantly uh braggadocious for the sake of humor.
I thought it would be obvious.
I'm sorry.
Uh easy.
We do make the complex understandable.
And we do so happily each day here at the EIB network.
All right, so we got a guy out there suing McDonald's for ten million bucks putting cheese on a burger.
He didn't order the cheese, got an allergy problem.
Ten million bucks.
And now we've got a guy named Leroy Greer suing one eight hundred flowers because they inadvertently revealed the affair that he was having.
The guy calls 1800 flowers, orders flowers for his uh his uh little hottie, and they send a thank you note to his house.
So his wife gets a thank you note and finds out he's sending flowers to some babe.
Bam.
So now he's upset.
He was in the process of deforesting his wife.
He's already in the process, divorcing his wife uh when the 1-800 flowers incident occurred and it didn't help his standing.
Now his wife is all the more eager to end their union.
Uh She wants more money as a results, and she's found out that uh he was cheating.
So he's upset that they delivered a thank you note, now suing the floral company.
He had specifically noted in his order he didn't want any cards or information sent to the House where his wife still lived.
Now blames the company falling short of delivering the flowers in a discreet manner, which just so happened to cause his wife to flip out.
He lives in Texas.
Wants one million bucks.
You think he has a case?
You think he's got a case?
Well, we'll see.
All right, let's let's uh we gotta do this.
We gotta talk about the uh the the Hawkeye straw poll in uh in Ames, Iowa.
Number two, it was expected at Romney would win.
Number two was Huckabee.
Uh now I I mentioned this top of the program.
It's a big deal for Huckabee.
And I'm not I I don't I don't want to uh uh trivialize this, the winner or whoever runner up or any of that, or I am not trying to trivial.
I just it's just so early.
It's six months until the first primary, fifteen months till the actual election.
Uh three of the four leading candidates didn't even participate.
Um but the the excitement with which the political press is treating this as I think they're living in lives of quiet desperation.
They really have one track singularly focused lives.
Uh by the way, every voter in this thing had to pay.
So you could we I'm still gonna play the audio sound bites uh from this, because it's you know, it's uh it happened out there.
Uh should also mention that uh most campaigns pay the voters.
So they're the that's why I saw a headline today.
Romney bought his victory.
And I'm not I'm not trying to put him down, don't misunderstand this.
Uh Tommy Thompson dropped out of the race.
He's more qualified than any of the Democrat candidates.
Uh the only Yeah, I'll tell you what's really interesting to me about this, and I still have to temper this with the fact that the three of the top four weren't there.
You have Romney as the winner, you have Mike Huckabee came in second.
And not what what is what is what do they both have in common?
What do Romney and Huckabee have in common?
They're both governors.
They are not senators.
And senators do not.
I mean, it's a long haul.
I was it J. Is LBJ the last well, it was JFK, the last senator that got elected president from the Senate.
So anyway, here's uh we have a montage to get things rolling here.
The drive-byers have fallen in love with Huckabee, referring to him now as McCain-esque, and they're making a big deal out of his surprise win.
Mike Huckabee is a big story.
The Huckabee story is amazing.
You usually get what you pay for.
Huckabee got more than that.
As far as Huckabee.
Really, really big win for him.
Governor Huckabee was arguably the biggest winner yet.
How about Governor Huckabee?
Huckabee, I thought gave a great speech.
Huckabee's conservative credentials have never been in question.
Mike Huckabee was a surprise second.
Huckabee surprised people.
He's been a media darling all along.
He's a straight talker Alla McCain of 2000.
This breathes some life into what reporters hope is going to be a story about Mike Huckabee.
See, see, this breeds this breeds life into what reporters hope is going to be a story about Mike Huckabee.
I like Huckabee, though.
I don't know what anybody getting offended by any of this.
This is just it's just a little early.
Let's go to Huckabee's on the Slay the Nation.
Uh the fill-in host Jim Axelrod, who said, Do you ever look at the National Republican front runner, Rudy Giuliani, the pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-gay rights Rudy Giuliani?
Say to yourself, how come I haven't been able to get any traction?
I think yesterday showed that we are getting traction.
I'm one of the few Republican candidates that's having the courage to talk about uh how we need to really separate ourselves from being the Wall Street Republican crowd.
We need to be the main street Republican crowd.
We need to quit being a wholly owned subsidiary of the major fund managers on Wall Street and start being more concerned about people out there in places like Iowa.
Where's the last person I heard say that?
Um I don't remember who.
I just know it was a Democrat.
Uh well, that's why they're that's why they're calling him McCain-esque.
That's why they're calling him McCain-esque on this stuff.
Here's the next question.
Uh draw some contrast between you, Giuliani McCain, and Romney.
What makes uh Mike Huckabee different?
I became governor and was able to get things done in the way of tax cuts and transportation to rebuild roads, uh, some of the most significant education improvements and uh some innovative things, frankly, that many people wouldn't expect out of a Republican.
Focus on music and art and education, uh health care innovations that have you know, I didn't grow up a child of privilege, and I can uh relate to a lot of people out there who understand what struggle is like because a lot of Americans every day get up and they don't face uh the decision between are they gonna vacation in the Caribbean or the Riviera, they face whether they can squeeze the handle on the gas pump and put enough uh fuel in the tank to get to work.
And um Mitt Romney was on Fox News Sunday, and uh Wallace said you got 4500 votes.
Uh, by way of comparison, eight years ago when he was first running George W. Bush got 7400 votes.
David Yep, Des Moines registered kind of guru here called your victory a bit hollow.
I'm very pleased to win, let me tell you.
I got a higher percentage even than the president got eight years ago.
And you know, it was a warm day, and actually it was difficult turning people out.
We hope to get out about 4,000 to 5,000.
We did.
They came, they voted.
I won.
Can't do better than that.
That's exactly what I was hoping for.
And frankly, the key for me is building that organizational base that propels me.
Okay, so that's it.
That's that's the uh the roster of sound bites we have from the uh from the straw poll in uh in Iowa, where you have to pay to get in, and the candidates generally pay the voters to um to show up.
Now I understand whoever comes in second is always you know when you got an expected front running, I mean you know Romney was gonna win this because none of the other top tiers there.
There has to be somebody come in second.
And the media is looking for a story to to to to sort of get out of their boredom in the humdrums.
And so whoever would have come in second would have been what's this?
Who is this?
Where did this guy go?
Huck a hookah, what uh oh, Huckabee Arkansas.
I thought Clinton ran on it.
Oh no, he's the new governor.
Oh, okay, good, we've got a story.
And that's um what's propelling this.
And in Eugene, Oregon, welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you.
Good morning, Rush.
Love you bunches.
Thank you.
Um, I um uh for years you have helped me in my morning nine to twelve grunt work with my three kids listening to you, and you've really helped me, you know, be positive and and feel good about my conservative views in South Eugene, Oregon, which is not easy, believe me.
But anyway, um I'm a golf uh fanatic.
I love golf.
I'm not playing right now because I don't have time, but I like what you had to say about golf last week.
I always enjoy it when you talk about it.
But I followed the PGA thing this weekend, and I am totally uh anti-Tiger Woods and totally pro-phil Mickelson.
So I just can't stand them.
But after yesterday.
Wait a second now.
Now, now, now you gotta tell me why you you're so anti-tiger.
I don't know.
I don't have a good reason.
And after yesterday, I will maybe be thinking this through a little bit more because he always wins.
He always makes a six-foot putt.
He always does it.
And I just I love Phil.
I don't know why.
He does No, wait, wait, Tiger, though Tiger doesn't.
He didn't make those puts at the British.
Well didn't make them at the Masters, he didn't make them at the U.S. Open.
He doesn't, he doesn't always make those puts.
I'm gonna tell you why you don't like Tiger.
Okay, tell me.
Because you can't you are I I'm guessing.
My guess you're so sick and tired of watching a televised golf tournament where Tigers playing.
Yeah.
And Tiger will, you know, drive the ball two fairways to the right, and the announcers will say, that's a great strategy.
You're probably trying to make the field think that he's out of the tournament or doesn't have his game today.
Yeah.
When Tiger misses a three-foot putt, it's on purpose.
Or it's a spike mark.
Or it's you know and you probably just get sick.
It's like people hated the New York Yankees back when there was one televised baseball game a week, because they were always on.
Yeah.
You could be right.
I will take that in consideration.
I gotta tell you, I have a couple observations, just wanted to ask you.
He that had to be one of the best wins he has ever had in his life.
Because one hundred and ten degrees, tough, tough, tough course.
Hanging in, and the guy just got married.
Now getting married, not easy.
No, no, no, no, no.
Well, and now he's got the little baby in arms, no time, no sleep, no sex, no nothing.
I mean, this guy's coming in there.
Don't believe any of that.
No, that's true.
I really felt at the end of the year.
I don't know about the sex, but don't believe this no sleep business.
Well, whatever.
Maybe but the no sex, that's part of why they're looking.
His wife was a nanny.
Well, whatever she was, I don't know.
But anyway, it is hard to be married early on.
It's hard to have kids.
Nicholas did it.
Well, come on.
You're doing you're sorry, hit the mic.
You're doing what broadcaster.
Everybody has kids and everybody works and they have these things, and you you Oh, but everybody does not excel like he does.
Yeah.
That is so tough.
Yeah, and I um uh you know what?
I'm gonna keep you on phone because I gotta go a commercial break.
What I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you.
Oh gosh.
Uh well, I That's great.
Go ahead.
I'd love to hear anything.
I I'm gonna put Tiger Woods in perspective.
I'm I can't believe you only learned about these uh these far above average abilities of his yesterday.
No, well, no.
I've known about him.
I just didn't like him.
I don't like his parents.
I didn't like his little two-year-old shots of him swinging on a Johnny Carson show.
I just didn't like Yeah, you were just reacting.
You just you're just you just didn't want to be part of conventional wisdom that was sopping up all this stuff.
It's uh your dislike for Tiger was media driven because we'll conclude this.
Okay.
Right after this.
Don't uh don't hang up.
All right, we're back with Ann in uh in Eugene, Oregon.
Now here's here's what what I think you have to know about Tiger Woods.
And it's uh by the way, I'm probably gonna make you hate him even more here.
No, you're not.
Yeah, well, if you if you already don't like him because of the No, I like him more now because he's more normal.
Yeah, but just Okay, go ahead.
I need to hear what you need to do.
Now that's see, that's what it is.
When when you know my team's a Pittsburgh Steelers, and in the 70s were unbeatable and and people outside of Pittsburgh and outside the Steelers fan base hated him because they were like a machine, they were so good.
You just said finally he's human.
What?
Because he's got a wife and a baby.
You think the baby's crying all night and he's up changing diapers could still win a golf tournament.
That's a very female attitude to have about this.
But but and it's worthwhile.
But I'll tell you what makes him what the reason he's able to do that, which by the way, everybody, every every guy that's been a success at anything and has kids has had to do that.
That's not that special.
What makes Tiger special is what's between the ears.
You know, when you get to him, absolutely right.
I agree with that.
Okay, they all can hit it.
I mean, they all can chip and putt.
Uh he's better at it consistently than most, but focused.
What?
He's totally focused.
It's not it's it's well, yeah, but i I think it's more than that.
I think uh people who have not played the game, even people who do, I don't think have the slightest idea what it is like to have that kind of performance pressure.
Yeah.
And to put it out of your mind and to not have it affect you.
Uh he's got the biggest galleries every tournament he plays it.
He's got he's g it it he is he's just he is is so mentally tough and focused and motivated that that it's it's that's that's the marvel to me.
He's just he's just smart.
He's uh uh I I don't know him.
He's still all of that.
But he's brilliant.
Now he's more and going to be more because he is married and because he does have a child.
And that's not to say you have to be married and have a child.
That's not what my emphasis is.
Well, that you better be because I wouldn't be what I am if I were married now.
Well, anyway, I just thought, you know, I I I didn't know how you how do you feel about him?
You what do you think about him?
Tiger?
Yeah, you like him?
I think oh I've I've I've only met him one time.
Uh-huh.
But I I um I think he's brilliant.
Yeah.
I think he's just the epitome of a class act.
Yeah.
I I think he is you know, like his parents think he's a great example of being raised well.
Um I I think that he's um gives a lot.
He gives so much, you know.
I yeah, there's a lot to admire and a lot to see there.
Just hit me with him yesterday.
Somehow my my just my focus is.
Whatever it takes.
I mean, if it's been humanized to you because now he's got a wife and baby and can still do this, that's fine.
If that works for you, then that that works for you.
But I mean it's he's uh he's I I I'm having a tough time describing uh my my impact because I I'm the one time I met him was on the putting green at the ATT tournament at spyglass.
And nobody would approach him.
Butch Harman was a swing coach then and his caddy with Steve Williams, but nobody would approach him, and I said, I may never see this guy, because I walked up there and I asked if I could bother him.
He kind of looked, you know.
Yeah, introduced myself, and I said, Look, I just want to tell you one thing.
This is after this is 2001, and he had that great year in 2000.
Uh and I I said, I just am I have to tell you how impressed and and amazed I am at how you deal with the performance pressure and the expectations that you have of yourself and you know what everybody else's are.
This that that year 2000, you've you that's seven years ago.
There was a stunning year in the PGA that year, I think was with Bob May.
Uh out of nowhere, nobody ever heard of this guy outside the PGA tour.
And that playoff, that that was some of those shots he hit back uh uh unbelievable.
They were far far more impressive than yesterday.
Yesterday was impressive too, because he was challenged for the first time in a long time.
But he was challenged.
But he had a lot of other challenging things.
That's my thing.
That's sort of my emphasis.
Um, you know, I've had the wrong, probably the wrong.
I've just thought he's been coddled by his parents.
You know what?
Here's the thing.
If he'd have lost yesterday, if Woody Austin, who I also played with and who is a real character.
Uh he he wanted to throw my driver out of my bag.
I was hitting it so bad one year at the ATT after he threw his own putter away.
Uh this is a guy hit himself on his head with his putter and broke it.
Uh but he's a character.
He's out of uh he's out of Kansas.
But if Tiger had lost yesterday, if Woody Austin or Ernie Ells had caught him, then you'd have had people saying, eh, you know what?
The kid was crying last night, uh something that they would have come up, but n none of it would have been true.
None of it would have been true.
He he's I'm gonna tell you what, this is the this is the kind of situation with 30, 50 years from now, people are gonna be writing books, doing there'll be movies and stories.
The legend of Tiger Woods is gonna be every bit as big as Bobby Jones and Jack Nicholas.
And the people alive now watching it don't have nearly the appreciation of it because we're living our lives at the same time.
Uh and and and it's uh it's just part of the fabric.
Sometimes we don't have the ability to stop and appreciate what real unique greatness is when it's amongst us, and I think that's him.
Well, it's another uh excellent astounding, outstanding program and a list of outstanding programs too long to count, folks.
And we will do another one tomorrow.
Be right here, ready to go, revved up.
So look forward to seeing you then.
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