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Sept. 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Can you believe this?
And they claim they have no idea where he is.
I think I could tell them where he is.
Norman Shu, well-known Clinton fundraiser.
This is a guy that goes out.
He's one of these packagers.
It's one of these bundlers of campaign contributions.
By the way, greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
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Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I am a fair guy.
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Democrat fundraiser and Clinton bundler.
Norman Shu has failed to appear for a bail hearing in Redwood City, California.
Don't you just hate it when this happens?
He's going to lose $2 million in bail that he posted last week.
A judge has issued a new warrant for his arrest.
Shu's lawyer says he doesn't know where he is.
Well, I can tell you where he is.
Trike China.
It's where all the Clinton fundraisers go when they want to flee the jurisdiction.
The Riottis, the Lippo group people, the Pauline, the Pauline Ken Chanelax.
Remember all these people from the 96 fundraising scandal?
That's where they go to China.
They don't show up to court.
You know, this guy, he was a fugitive for 15 years, and he turned himself in for that.
You think he fled from the, he got the hell out of Dodge over this fundraising stuff, folks.
There's no question about it, in my mind.
You know what a bundler is?
This was what Riotti, I want to say Rioti, Charlie Tree, Johnny Chung.
Johnny Chung was one of the guys doing this.
And Norman Shu was doing it.
There's a family out in California, the last name of Paul, P-A-W.
They have a lot of pets, but they don't have much money.
And they had never donated to politicians before.
All of a sudden, members of the family each were giving the maximum to the Clintons.
And they didn't have any money.
And they'd never made political donations before.
And so this Norman Shu was a bundler.
He knew the Paws, who had a lot of pets, but no money.
And he was out there bundling contributions from them.
And I guarantee you, he has fled the jurisdiction.
He is out of the country.
Why didn't they take the guy's passport?
Of course, the Clintons could have handled that.
Well, next president, future president, current U.S. Senator, if you need a passport, you get a passport.
Zoom name or whatever.
So Norman Shu's gone.
We'll not find him.
I mean, they'll not track him down.
He's guarantee you, folks, out of the country.
And of course, the lawyer doesn't know where he is.
That's probably true, too.
All right.
We remember the bad times better than the good times, according to livescience.com.
And we remember the bad times better than the good times because our emotions influence, pardon me, I'm really sorry about this, folks, how we process memories.
A new review of research shows.
When people recall significant emotional events in their lives, such as their wedding day or the birth of their first child, they're generally very confident about how well they remember the details of the event.
But whether or not this confidence is warranted is debatable because details remembered with confidence often aren't exactly correct, according to the Review of Research on Emotional Memories.
So what this is saying is that when you think back fondly to your wedding day, you are lying to yourself.
When you think, well, when you think back fondly to the birth of your first child, you are lying to yourself.
You are probably scared to death.
But because you want to feel good about it, you're making yourself feel good about it.
Memories, it says here, are generally prone to distortion over time.
Excuse me, but researchers have found some evidence to suggest that emotional memories are more resistant to the decay processes that wear away at all memories with time.
This, according to Elizabeth Kensinger, Boston College, it's clear she says that there's something very kind of special and prioritized about how we remember those emotional experiences.
Negative events may edge out positive ones in our memories, according to research by Kensinger and others.
It really does matter whether an event is positive or negative, in that most of the time, if not all of the time, negative events tend to be remembered in a more accurate fashion than positive events.
While we might not remember more total details about a bad event that we experience, the details you remember about a negative event are more likely to be accurate, she says.
Now, I understand this.
We talk on this program a lot about the natural human tendency toward negativism, toward pessimism, toward doom and gloomism.
And we know that it exists because it takes hard work to think positively.
People who have written books teaching others how to think positively have become multi-millionaires.
But you can't go to the book or the library and find a book on how to fail because we all know how to do that.
You will not go to the library, be able to check out a book, How to Make Yourself Miserable in Three Easy Steps, because everybody can do it.
But being upbeat and positive is regarded as unique, is it not?
When somebody's upbeat and positive, what's wrong with them?
Nobody can be that happy all the time.
And they think it's odd because everybody, we're all raised with the idea that there's virtue in suffering.
That's biggest bunch of crap, but we are raised this way, that there's virtue in suffering, and there's virtue in enduring misery and pain.
And so we immerse ourselves in it, the idea that we're getting stronger and that we're making ourselves better people.
And perhaps even in the eyes of God, we are improving our odds of eternity.
But we have one life.
It's a gift.
Who says it's meant to be suffered?
Why is there guilt associated with enjoyment?
Why do people feel guilty when they're having a good time?
Why do people feel, especially if they're not at work?
Well, we're all raised that way.
And so when we have this story here that negative memories are more accurate in people's minds than positive memories, I can understand it.
Now, contradicting this, this does not apply to me.
I think back, everybody has bad memories, but one of my undeniable truths of life is that nostalgia only reminds us of the good times in the past.
We've all got times in our life where we had to eat the old excrement sandwich out there, some days with mustard and ketchup, other days plain.
But we've all had them.
And I've had them too.
And I think back to them.
And they don't destroy me or devastate me or any of that.
And they don't surface as disturbing memories.
Most of the things I remember, when I listen to music, music invariably takes me back to periods of time in the past.
And the memories I have are all positive.
They're all of the good times.
Now, this story is telling me that I may be lying to myself about the good times and that I may not remember them as fondly as they actually are.
I may be remembering them more fondly than they actually were, but what's the difference?
Memory is the memory.
And I think there's something to it here that bad memories stick better because people just tend to go toward the negative.
And it takes a lot of effort and work to get out of that kind of mindset.
Forecasters are saying that we should expect more hurricanes.
These predictors are getting awfully cocky out there.
Now we had two category five storms after going through a summer of zilch storms.
Now all of a sudden, in two to three week period, we've had two category fives.
So the forecast goes, see, see, we were right.
And it's going to get even worse.
With monster category five storms, Dean and Felix striking in recent weeks, the 2007 hurricane seasons picked up steam, and forecasters say this could be the start of a trend that lasts through November.
In an unusual mid-season update, the well-known Colorado State University forecast team made monthly predictions for the remainder of the season, which ends November 30th.
And they say we expect the remainder of the season to be active.
I think they're talking about 10 more storms.
Five name storms, four storms are becoming hurricanes, and two of those ramping up to major hurricanes.
I've seen two different, yeah, the two-month period, October to November, should also bring a combined five name storms, two of those becoming hurricanes and only one strengthening to major status.
September.
I can't tell here if they're forecasting 10, four more in September, and then five in October, November, or what.
But regardless, they're getting pumped up out there, feeling the two category fives are getting all excited to warn us here about even more.
I know you're probably sick and tired of hearing about Larry Craig, but I got to just share this one thing with you here, folks.
It's a column in the Washington Post.
A prayer for Larry Craig by James McGreevy.
Let me, you got happy feet, Handy.
I got to blow my nose on this one.
You got happy feet, Handy.
I'm going to share a little bit of this before we go to the break.
And I'm not going to blow my nose in front of you people, so until we, there we go.
Paolo Conti, ladies and gentlemen, giving me a brief nose break here while you listen to the Larry Craig theme song.
There you have it.
Paolo Conte and Happy Feet, Larry Craig Update Theme Song.
James McGreevy, a prayer for Larry Craig.
I haven't read the story.
I don't need to read the story.
I read the headline and a byline.
And, I mean, here we've got the disgraced bisexual ex-governor of New Jersey, who is now appropriately an Episcopal priest candidate who sympathizes with the toilet stall foot romancer Larry King.
Or Larry Craig.
Sorry, Larry.
McGreevy sits there and hides under the phony word gay, and avoids the more realistic term indiscriminate sexual glutton, which is what he was.
And this is just gak.
A prayer for Larry Craig by James McGreevy.
Back and.
Read it on.
Yeah, one of my old-time five of the top 10 favorite tunes here, Al Wilson, and Show and Tell Rush Limbaugh.
A couple death announcements here.
I'd say Republicans are dropping like flies out there.
Larry Craig with his incident, Ohio Representative Paul Gilmore found dead in his apartment Wednesday.
Republican leadership aide said.
The aide said the body of the 68-year-old Republican found by staff members who went to his apartment after he failed to show up for work.
No immediate word on the cause of his death.
Gilmore's office did not respond to reporters' call.
He was elected in 1988.
He's in the Bowling Green area of Ohio, which is the 5th district.
And Jennifer Dunn, you remember her?
From the Republican leadership days back in the 90s, she was from Washington.
She has died, her family announced today.
She was 66.
She collapsed from a pulmonary embolism in her Alexandria, Virginia apartment, never regained consciousness, said her son, King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn in a press release.
She was a member of the House from 93 to 2005, representing Washington's eighth congressional district.
She retired in 2005.
President Bush said she's a superb legislator, a strong leader who has stood for the best of Washington state's values and who has improved the lives of its people.
Wow, that is a stunner.
Bill, in Redding, Pennsylvania, we go back to the phones.
Welcome, sir.
I appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Thanks, Raj.
I'm glad you're back.
I've been wanting to get to you, but you were away for a week.
And whether you've caught up with the fact that Fox News looks like they've gone over to the other side on the global warming, their Fox News radio at the top of the hour has been showing, and Shepard Smith has done this with his segment, pointing out how to be green in order to combat global warming.
And also the local TV channels, for example, Philadelphia Channel 29 has picked up on that, and they're broadcasting that as a marketing thing.
And wait, wait, wait, this is 29 in Philadelphia.
Is that Fox affiliate?
Yes, it is.
Okay, well, I got to tell you, this is corporate-wide.
This is not just the Fox News channel.
You remember not long ago, the press release came out about 24 was going green.
It was going to go environmentally friendly.
And I got emails from people, oh, no, Kiefer Sutherland's going to be shooting SUVs while driving hybrids.
No, no, no, no.
They're just going green in the production techniques.
They're going to use different light bulbs and they're going to try to neutralize the carbon footprint.
This is nothing more than a PR blitz coming from Fox Corporate for who knows whatever reason.
Look at, I've talked to people at various automobile manufacturers, and they can't make the cars they want to make because of cafe standards.
They got to make these little dumpers out there, these little V4s and V2s, these things that are little bubbles that you get in there and drive around, risk your life in, because the government's mandating all these mileage standards.
And I said, well, screw it.
Why don't you build what you want?
I said, we can't.
We can't offend the customers.
What do you mean offend the customers?
Well, the customers think that global warming's happening and they want to protect the environment.
So we can't alienate the customer base.
Geez, you know, everything's out of whack here.
Used to be that companies, you know, well, I guess it's not.
It's just it's sad because all things a hoax and the whole thing's ridiculous and all things irrelevant.
I mean, I'm not saying we don't pollute, but we clean our messes up better than any country or population in the world.
We're very conscious about it.
And I'm not saying warming isn't happening, but I'll damn still damn well assert that man's not responsible for it because we don't have that kind of power.
And if you want to think you have that kind of power because you want to think you matter, then you go right ahead.
But I'm telling you right now, whether you drive a V4 or a bubble car or a monster V12, it doesn't make one iota's worth of difference to the climate of the world.
Not one, folks.
It can't possibly.
Well, what if everybody was?
Everybody is.
I mean, all these jets that are flying around, the space shuttles, all the rockets that we launch, all the satellites.
It's so patently absurd to think that we have this kind of power.
Anyway, so the Fox corporate edict is apparently, it's covered everything from 20th Century Fox, and it's probably a News Corp-wide thing as well.
And the attempt here is to present to the audience the idea that Fox is eco-friendly and is doing what it can do to save the world and save the climate.
Because it's, obviously, they've made a political calculation, a business calculation, that that's going to sell.
I frankly don't think that putting out a press release saying that 24 is going to be totally carbon neutral in its production is going to get them one-tenth of one rating point.
It gets absolutely asinine and totally silly, but it's going to make them feel better, all those suits in the corporate suite at Fox Out in Hollywood.
And I've been there and I've seen it.
They're going to feel all better about themselves.
They're going to matter a hill of beans to the ratings of even one of their shows.
In fact, it will harm if they put these techniques, if they actually, in 25, I'm not going to do this.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just an example.
But if they actually get dialogue in some of these shows, serious dialogue about, no, I don't think we better take the SUV, Jack.
Might be too much of a carbon footprint.
We're already going to be blowing up some terrorists out there.
Let's take the hybrid.
If they did that seriously and not as a comedy bit, it'll hurt them.
But the idea that this is going to help ratings-wise is silly.
It's just, it's a PR thing.
So don't blame this Fox news channel going green.
This is just, this is how these things happen, folks.
But I actually think, I think the global warming phenomena is over.
In fact, I got a story here that's from newsbusters today.
The BBC has canceled some big Al Gore global warming show because the failure of his, what was it, Live Earth?
A Live Earth concert was such a disaster, such a ratings and commercial disaster that the BBC is canceling a Gore environment show.
I'll get the details in a minute.
Well, if you want the truth, you've come to the right place.
A highly trained broadcast specialist, ladies and gentlemen, displaying how it should be done.
All right, here's the story.
On July 12th, the newsbusters, this is Brent Bozell's media watchdog site.
They watched the libs out there on the web.
July 12th, newsbusters asked, did Live Earth's flop reduce media interest in global warming?
And by the way, you have to throw in here the fact that DiCaprio's movie has flopped too.
I mean, if there were really all this hept up emotion about global warming, people really, really worried about it.
I don't think neither of these, well, the story I have here for you and the DiCaprio movie flopping would not be happening.
I just think they've overplayed their hand.
I think they've just, they've panicked.
They are not interested in debating anybody.
You know, the people that believe in this stuff will not debate people like me who don't.
They just want to shut us up.
They call us deniers and all of that.
Anyway, the BBC has scrapped Planet Relief.
This is a proposed day-long special about climate change, specifically citing the failure of Al Gore's international concerts as one of the reasons for the cancellation.
The Times Online says this.
The BBC announced today that the project has been scrapped.
Negative reaction to this summer's Flop Live Earth concert promoted by Al Gore was cited as a factor.
The BBC actually reports this.
Viewers told the BBC to present the debate around climate change in an informed and rigorous manner.
They did not want to be lectured by wealthy pop stars and celebrities.
The BBC said, BBC One aims to bring a mass audience to contemporary and relevant issues, and this includes the topic of climate change.
Our audiences tell us that they're most receptive to documentary or factual style programming as a means of learning about the issues surrounding this subject.
And as part of this learning, we have made the decision not to proceed with the planet relief event.
The BBC promises instead to focus our energies on a range of factual programs on the important and complex subject of climate change.
The decision was not made in light of the recent debate around impartiality.
Now, you can look at this one of two ways.
BBC is a bunch of commie leftists, folks.
I mean, there's no question about it.
So they could be saying, okay, the gore flop and this is actually hurting the cause.
And we can't do it this way.
We believe in the cause, and we want this cause to be spread around the world.
We want people to buy into this.
And we can't keep using these flops as spokesmen for it.
So we're going to go out and put together our own truthful documentaries that contain our liberal bias and lies because we, the BBC, have credibility, and these pop stars and flops do not.
I think it's partially true, but there was a story I had it in yesterday's stack, and this was heartwarming to see too.
British people, in a recent poll, did you see this? Are becoming very suspicious about the real purpose of all this global warming talk.
They think it's just a disguised way to raise their taxes.
And guess what?
They are right.
That's exactly what it is, that and more.
It's a control mechanism.
It has all the elements of a major religion.
It's got its Garden of Eden, the pristine planet.
It's got original sin, pollution.
It's got redemption and salvation.
Drive a Prius.
Borthern Bryah hybrid.
Sell your house and live in a tree.
Take your own bags to the grocery store.
All this other rot-gut stupid stuff.
And if you do that, we will absolve you of your sin if you agree to pay more taxes and let us control your lifestyle so that you don't do any more damage to the planet.
And that's exactly what the whole thing's about.
Liberalism in disguise.
And these British citizens are figuring it out.
I'm telling you, we're going to beat this back.
I don't want to beat it back too soon.
I want the issue for another seven years or so.
Seven-year cycle on this kind of issue is a good thing.
Experience guided by intelligence tells me that.
We don't want to beat it.
Plus, I want Roy Spencer to continue to have a job, who's the official climatologist here at the EIB network.
John and Santa Barbara, as we go back to the phones, great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
I just want to support you on cutting those people short that called to scold you.
I think they shouldn't be doing that.
Oh, you mean the woman, Betty, who called and accused me of being rude?
Right.
You know, it's amazing.
I thought her call was, and thank you, John, very much.
I appreciate it.
I thought her call was innocuous.
It was harmless.
I mean, we occasionally get calls from, and it's mostly women who occasionally, very rarely, but we get them, and they'll accuse me of being rude.
But, I mean, we folks, every call Snerdley's getting, we could put up there, and we could make the whole topic today, whether or not I'm rude.
And whether or not she was right, there has been this incredible reaction to what Betty said.
And we've got a couple more coming up there.
You just heard John and Santa Barbara.
We've got Elizabeth in Port Charlotte, Florida.
That's one of my all-time top 10 favorite female names, by the way, Elizabeth.
Not the shortened version of it, not Liz.
Elizabeth.
Got to be the whole thing.
Liz doesn't qualify.
It's a nice name.
Beth's not in the top 10.
Beth is not in the top 10.
Not every name can make it.
I mean, there's only 10 slots.
Anyway, the reaction to this is dumbfounding, even to me.
Andy in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, it's an honor to talk with you.
I've been listening since I was a kid, and I'd like to think I'm following in your footsteps to some degree.
Well, thank you very much, sir.
It'd be very difficult to do, but I admire the effort.
I'm a long ways from it still.
Was that being rude?
Was that being rude?
I'm from Missouri, worked in music radio in Kansas City, and now I host a conservative talk show.
So anyway, I wanted to hear what you had to say about Fred Thompson before going to debate tonight.
I missed the program yesterday, I must confess.
But what do you think about that and his appearance on Jay Leno?
I read an article just recently that said he's losing some support because of his indecisiveness when it comes to how he's going to make his announcement.
Losing support because of his indecisiveness.
Fred Thompson, you've read stories that that's happening to Fred Thompson?
Yeah, I was just reading an article on Fox News about that just a few minutes ago.
Oh.
Well, if it's on Fox News, it must be true.
Look, normally we don't repeat previous programs.
That's what the website's for.
$49.95 for a full-year subscription with a newsletter.
But in your case, you're so nice here from Kansas City.
I'll make an adjustment.
What I said yesterday was, and I'm not fully decided on this, it's my instincts.
But I'm not crazy about presidential candidates announcing their candidacy on these late-night shows, Leno or Letterman.
I know why they're doing it.
Thompson has been very upfront and honest about why he's doing it.
He's saying, hey, look, I can reach far more ordinary Americans on Jay Leno's show than they're going to be watching the debate tonight from New Hampshire on the Fox News channel.
Well, there's no question.
The debate may draw, what, two, three million people, if that.
And the, you know, Leno's audience is five or six million, something like that.
And of course, it's not political.
The audience, well, it's not as political as an audience to be watching the debate.
That is understandable.
And we live in a telegenic age.
Presidential candidates have to do well on TV.
The one thing about it bothers me, and I, you know, I'm not rooted in fuddy duddiness here, although it may sound like it to some of you.
But I think the office of the presidency has a certain stature, and I don't like to see it linked or tied to pop culture.
Pop culture is by definition one of the low common denominators of our society.
And for a if a president won't go on the tonight show as president, he shouldn't go on as a candidate.
Have you noticed, I guess it's one of the things I've always noticed, presidential candidates will go do all kinds of things that once they become president, I'm not going to go see the butter princess at the Iowa State Fair.
What do you mean?
Well, sir, you did it when you were a candidate.
Yeah, and I'm going to wait till I'm a candidate again, but I'm president now and I'm not going to go sit around and get my picture taken with a butter queen or what have you.
You know damn well that presidents don't go on the tonight show.
So, when they, why should they as candidates?
It just seems when you link the stature of that office to the pop culture.
I don't think the damage is instantaneous, but it's just a slow erosion of the stature of the office.
This is just my instinct here.
Anyways, this is not directed at Fred Thompson.
I was watching Meet the Press Sunday, and they had Mary Madeline on there with James Carville and Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy, and they were talking about this.
And they all thought it was perfectly fine and normal.
And I just, I was a little stunned, but you know, their job is to get people elected and get them exposed to as many people as possible.
And what Thompson's trying to do here, I know, is everything as unconventional in a campaign as he can do.
He's like announcing late, going on the tonight's show to announce, so forth and so on.
Anyway, I hope that answers a question out there.
We got a quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue in just a second, right after this.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here, high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan, one of the most frequently visited tourist sites here in the city.
Mark in Cathedral City, California.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Yes, Rush.
I want you to know where I'm coming from.
I would throw my body in front of an assassin's bullet for you.
I love you, but for the last month, I've considered you've gone slightly off track by being so self-absorbed.
We hear, I know everything about you, and I hear it constantly.
It's as if you are the important person in the show rather than what's going on around in the world is important.
That's all I have to say.
You seem to be so much slightly off track.
I'm eager to learn from criticism like this.
Could you give me some examples of how I've been self-absorbed?
Because it's actresses and people like that that are self-absorbed.
I mean, I don't walk in front of a mirror and stop and look at myself every time I see a mirror.
I don't do that like actresses do.
Well, you speak more about yourself than I've ever heard you speak before.
Well, how?
Every way.
Well, I give my opinions here.
What?
I give my opinions here.
I can't avoid talking about myself in that sense.
You talk about yourself all the time lately.
In the last month, I know more about you personally than I ever knew.
And I ran into you 20 years ago, almost 20 years ago, at 21.
And you were a simple, sweet guy, and you really still are.
But it's almost as if you've taken yourself seriously.
And that's not you.
It frightens me.
If I'm to fix this, you're going to have to give me some examples of the self-absorption that you're talking about.
Well, you're golf.
You constantly talk about your golf and how you go to Hawaii and how you're friends and you smoke at your cigars with your friends and your wealthy friends.
And you're constantly talking about your private life.
And, you know, maybe I'm off-kilter.
I'll be willing to admit it.
Well, what about my private life have I said recently that shocked you?
There's too many things to talk about.
Well, no, because I don't, I mean, I'm very guarded and private about my private life.
You're not.
You're not.
You're not private at all.
You talk about the big house that you live in and all the television sets that you have and all about your trips and your playing golf and how you have these personal cigar meetings with these important people.
It's as if you have taken yourself seriously rather than say, hey, this show is not about Rush Limbaugh.
This show is about everything going on in the world, not around me.
And I've never heard you do that in all of the years that I've listened to you and loved you.
That's all.
Nothing changes.
I still think you're the best person ever.
Okay, but I appreciate that.
But I just want you to know something about my private life.
There's a lot more to it than televisions and airplanes and cigars.
And there's a lot more, but you don't know it because I don't discuss it.
Well, but you don't have to discuss what you do discuss.
I know there's a lot we don't know.
Well, but you know, since this program started, I've always done that.
You know, I have always, in fact, I do it a lot less now.
When this program started, every Monday, the first half hour was what I did on the weekend.
When this program's done, I can't do that as much because of security concerns.
I've got to be much more guarded about my privacy than ever before because I've got all kinds of people poking into it.
I mean, I've got...
You want me to talk...
Let me give you a little story.
I'm going to give you a little story.
You think you know about my private life?
I had a year ago, I had a phone call from a real estate agent saying, I got somebody who will pay you sight unseen X amount of, just exorbitant amount of money, for your property in Florida.
And I said, who is it?
Well, buyer wants to remain anonymous.
That's not got a chance.
Well, I want you to know, Mr. Limbaugh, that the buyer says if he could get in and see the house, but probably pay even more.
Well, I said, well, I'm not going to, there's no way somebody I don't know is getting in here until I find out that you can prove to me they can pay what they're offering.
It turned out it was a tabloid reporter trying to get in who had fooled a real estate broker, trying to get in to take pictures for who knows what reason.
You know, now, you're probably going to get mad at me for telling you this story.
No, not at all.
Well, I understand.
Well, I'm pretty self-absorbed telling you this, but I'm telling you this story to tell you that I do not divulge a lot of stuff that happens.
I am more guarded about my private life than ever before.
I may tell you I'm going to Hawaii, but I don't tell you where.
Well, let's put it this way.
You were less involved with saying anything about yourself in years before.
But I know more about you now.
And it doesn't mean that I know.
You know, we're a family here.
If I tell you stuff, it's because I want you to know it.
I happen to be proud of myself.
I like myself.
I like my life.
I want to bring as many people together.
So is every one of your listeners proud of you?
That's why they don't want to see you fall off with the wheels come off by you talking about yourself so much.
We wouldn't be talking about me if you hadn't called.
I would be talking about the issues.
Well, the issues is what you always talked about, but you're not an issue.
Oh, that's debatable.
To the Democrat Party, I'm an issue.
There are people trying to discredit me left and right.
No, I don't know.
That's the last thing I want to do.
No, I don't mean you.
I'm talking about political opponents and that sort of thing.
Oh, I understand that.
Everybody that listens to you and loves you understands that you're beating back all of these horrible monsters.
Absolutely.
Can't do it all without.
Can't do it without talking about myself.
Look, Mark, I appreciate it.
I think I know.
I think really what it's not so much that you think I'm self-absorbed and talking about myself, because I'm not talking about myself any more than I usually have over the course of my star-studded broadcast career.
I think you're paralleling the same sentiments expressed by the first caller today, Betty, who said I was rude.
Well, the second caller, who said I was rude.
She just, I think what she's upset about and what may be bothering you is my ego, my confidence, my bravado.
The fact that when I tell you about my private life, I sound like I'm lauding it over you.
Like I can do it, but you can't.
I think that's what's really bothering you.
I'm not under the impression I'm actually saying it that way, but I think some people are hearing it that way.
All right, the second hour of Broadcast Excellence successfully executed and in the can on the way over to the warehouse housing museum artifacts soon to be on display.
As soon as we find all of the room necessary, in the meantime, take a brief break here.
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