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May 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 2, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my friends.
It's your commander in chief of Operation Chaos.
Rush Limbaugh fighting fatigue.
But nevertheless, here behind the golden EIB microphone, got to bed at 5 30 this morning.
I sent Snerdley a note.
I sent others a note saying, look, I may be late today.
And my sense of duty would not permit me to sleep beyond the normal time that I arise.
It's Friday.
Let's roll.
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I have noticed something all over the drive-by media.
We have seen that the superdelegates seem to now be congealing.
I love that word rather than coalescing.
Congealing around Barack Obama.
While the polls indicate that the actual Democrat voters seem to be moving more in the direction of Mrs. Clinton here.
It's uh it's apparent that the superdelegates are ignoring the advice that I have given them.
Uh well-intentioned and good-hearted advice.
It's obvious the superdelegates want to be rid of the Clintons.
Uh it's it seems to me, folks, that is as many of you out there who want to be rid of the Clintons, you should take solace in the fact that apparently so does the Democrat Party.
Paul Kirk, a former Democrat National Committee Chairman, joined Joe Andrew today in uh in in leaving the Hillary camp.
I don't know if he was in the Hillary camp, but he's endorsed Obama.
Uh and a number of others are lining up to do this as well.
In the meantime, Operation Chaos continues to be a front and center discussion item on the drive-by cable networks and in the Denver Post today, a column by Ross Kaminski.
Suggestion to Rush Limbaugh, enough Operation Chaos.
Basically, what Mr. Kaminsky is saying here, hey, Russia, worked.
Now call it off.
Because Hillary is tougher to beat than Obama.
Once again, dissension in the ranks.
People are succumbing to fear while a commander-in-chief marches forward in total confidence, knowing full well what we're doing here.
Uh, if Rush Limbaugh were to ask my opinion about his operation chaos, here's what I'd say.
It was certainly clever.
It's certainly been effective.
Now it's time to know when to stop.
If Hillary were to do exceptionally well in the remaining remaining primaries, she still won't catch Obama in pledge delegates.
But she will have a very strong argument to make that she should be the party's nominee because Obama is unelectable.
Indeed, despite Obama's apparent inevitability after Iowa, I believe, and polls suggest that if the election were held today, he would have a more difficult time against McCain than Clinton would.
Then we go on to PMS NBC Hardball last night.
Chris Matthews obsessed with Operation Chaos.
He had Susan Molinari on former Congresswoman from New York, and they had this and he thinks he's got it figured out now, by the way.
Should tell you it could take three or four sound bites to go through this, but Matthews thinks he's got this all figured out.
Rush Limbaugh has launched what he calls Operation Chaos, although I would argue that everything to do with Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos, encouraging his listeners to vote for Clinton in the primary.
So does the GOP, the grand all party, want to run against Hillary Clinton?
Why does Rush Limbaugh tell his ditto heads, proudly self-defined, to go out and vote for Hillary in the primaries?
I don't know.
The register for Democrat if you have to.
Let me tell you something.
No, no.
Let me finish.
Let me tell you something.
A few months back, I would have thought that was the woman we would want to run against would be Senator Clinton.
I don't think that's true now.
I think she's a much I don't know what Rush is thinking.
I think she may she is a much tougher opponent now.
The uh continued conversation sounded like this.
Could it be the people like Rush Limbaugh?
You call it the pundits, the people like me on the right, who who will benefit by a Hillary presidency because they won't be the like the Polish government in exile in London during World War II.
And they will be so huge trashing this evil woman running the country every single day.
And they are in that, and even if that it doesn't get to that point, that is that's who their listeners are, that's who their readers are.
Once again, here we have two Washington acolytes, uh, Chris Matthews and Susan Olinari, and we are going to be celebrating our 20th anniversary on this program on August 1st, and they still don't get it.
So Operation Chaos remains a blistering success.
They have no clue that they have no clue why I do what I do.
They have no clue how I define the success of what I do.
They have no clue what the objective is here.
Uh and and so they they twist themselves like pretzels here trying to figure it out, and they keep recycling the same old things.
Well, it's just he wants Hillary, so he won't be bored the next four years, wants something to talk about.
Uh Susan Molinari.
I don't know.
I don't know that anything's happened to her, Mr. Snarner.
Certainly just asked me what's happened to Sulan Susan Molinari.
She used to be so level-headed.
I don't I don't know that anything's happened to her.
I just I think I think this got everybody bamboozled.
Uh because I've and you know, here's the thing about this.
You know what's amazing about this, folks?
I have been as upfront about our operation here as any commander ever has been.
Heck, I have telegraphed every move that we are going to make here as part of Operation Chaos.
I've telegraphed it to the media, have telegraphed it to the Democrats, have telegraphed it to the essentially the political enemy, and yet they refuse to believe me or hear it or accept it for what it is.
The conversation continued.
Either one.
Because let me tell you, what Barack brings winning, I know that you want him to be able to separate from his associates, but he brings Bill Ayers.
He brings Reverend Wright.
He brings a lot, a whole host of folks who are quote, this tailor mate for Rush Limbo and the United States.
Well, wait a minute.
The way I look at it is from this desk here.
I mean, if Dick Cheney were president, I'd be I'd be levitating him.
So what Matthews, that was Ken Blackwell, by the way, the uh the former Secretary of State from Ohio.
And uh Matthew's question was will Russia's numbers go up if Hillary is president, bottom line.
So in that discussion item, Matthews was attempting to discuss the idea that uh this is all about ratings.
And that it is uh as yeah, and maybe if I maybe if I work really hard at this, Chris, I can become number one.
Maybe if I really, really, really keep pumping Operation Chaos, I can become number one.
What a goal that would be.
Because I need to get my ratings up.
At any rate, this is just part of the fun that's erupting here with Operation Chaos.
Now I want to go back to audio sound bites uh number one and two.
Uh, we haven't played these yet.
Uh Bill Clinton yesterday was in Whiteville, North Carolina.
Whiteville, North Carolina.
That's right, Limbaugh.
You know, they sent me these places.
I know these good old boys down here.
I'm talking to these people.
You know who they are.
You know who lives at Whiteville, North Carolina.
These are the guys that drive their cars and trucks around, escaping the federal revenue agents because they're chasing them down, trying to find where they're stills are.
You know how they these boys down here, they understand one thing, and that's a dipstick.
And when they need a dipstick, they have me coming in.
I'm happy to go to Whiteville right down the road from Blackwater.
Well, anyway, Clinton's talking about this, and I had a number of people tell me he mentioned you.
He mentioned you in Operation Chaos.
I said, no, he didn't.
I have the transcript.
He didn't mention me.
But I can't tell you the number of people who said that he did.
So I wanted to listen to this again.
This is Whiteville, North Carolina.
This is yesterday.
Actually, it's Wednesday.
Uh, and Clinton spoke, and it's just a portion of his remarks.
He's gonna end this thing roaring.
And what are they gonna say if she wins the popular vote?
I'm sorry, we're gonna give it to the talker states that are going Republican in November?
No.
So all these people that tell you she can't win and Russia trying to get all these people to declare for it or Sunday dollars and cut you off and stop your voice.
Don't you believe it?
You're still in the driver's seat.
All right.
Now, did you think that he said no?
No, you get you guys are wrong.
Here's what he says.
All these people that tell you you can't that she can't win.
They're Russian trying to get all these people to declare for and send it off and cut you off or stomp your voice.
That's that's the transcript gang.
I mean, I he he is not discussing me, and he's not discussing Operation Chaos.
That's not a stenographer's error.
It is not.
We've had this transcribe with three different transcribers went through this.
We even had people listening to this with headphones.
Because I was adamant last night.
I thought I'm losing my mind.
It's my show.
I played the soundbite, and they're all telling me Clinton talked about me.
And I said, No, he didn't.
And they said, Yes, he did.
Listen to it again.
Here we'll sound bite one, and we'll play the line separately on Soundbite 2.
I've got to settle this because this is the kind of thing to make you think you're losing your mind.
She's gonna end this thing roaring.
And what are they gonna say if she wins the popular vote?
I'm sorry, we're gonna give it to the caucus states that are going Republican in November?
No.
So all these people that tell you she can't win, and a Russia trying to get all these people to declare for it to send it all to cut you off and stop your voice.
Don't you believe it?
You're still in the driver's seat.
Another reason it can't beat me because he's not talking about people voting for her there.
All these people to tell you she can't win, they're Russian trying to get all these people to declare for her and send it off or declare for Obama and so forth.
Here's the line by itself.
She can't win, and Russia trying to get all these people quick timeout.
We'll be back even with my hearing loss, ladies and gentlemen.
Don't doubt me.
Paul McCartney before he met Heather Mills.
That's where the music's good.
We're back, Rush Limbaugh, open line Friday, 800-282-2882, a programming note.
Good friend of mine, Andy McCarthy, National Review Online, a former member of the uh U.S. Attorney's Office, SD New York, Southern District, New York, has written a timely and very important, profound book called Willful Blindness, Memoir of the Jihad.
He was on the um the uh prosecution team from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District, New York that prosecuted uh Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh.
And he has written about that trial and what he learned in that trial and has related it to our country's position via uh militant jihadism.
It really is a great book, and he's a dear dear friend of mine, and as you know, we don't do too many interviews on this program, but I wanted Andy to come on today, and he'll be on at one o'clock, uh, just beginning the second hour, Eastern time, uh, and discuss his book, and it's out now it's been out for a while.
Uh, wanted him earlier, but he's been busy interviewing on smaller affiliates uh with lesser hosts.
Uh but I'm just kidding.
I'm giddy.
Folks, this happens.
I'm here on two hours' sleep.
You know when that happens, everybody keeps their finger near the bleep button.
Never know what's gonna happen.
But anyway, it's a great book, and we're looking talk uh forward to talking to Andrew McCarthy here in um less than an hour.
Back to the audio soundbites in Operation Chaos, Chris Matthews, still not finished.
Now he has another theory uh as to what Operation Chaos is all about.
He um he figured out last night it was about ratings.
On Joe Scarborough's show this morning on PMSNBC, he's talking to uh, I guess Scarborough and Mika Bzhinski, the uh the daughter of Zabigniev Bzashinski, and he's come up with a new theory to explain me and Operation Chaos.
I think the New York Times piece today completely missed the motive behind both parties here.
They completely missed the politics of the thing, which is it's in Fox's interest to cause chaos in the Democratic Party, and of course, it's in the interest of all our networks to have a good show, of course, but I also think it's in the interest of all the pundits on radio and television led by Rush Limbaugh to perhaps have Hillary as president, and then they can become the Polish government in exile in London and uh and be reigning supreme when it'll be the only safe harbor for conservatives.
Imagine how they will run to the lifeboat of Rush Limbaugh, the great uh, you know, uh the support group for a vanquished conservatives if Hillary's president.
By the way, what has Fox got to do with this?
Fox isn't part of Operation Chaos, Chris.
Number two.
How many times do I have to explain what Operation Chaos is?
I have written a book.
In the book, there is a chapter.
My success is not determined by who wins elections.
I have I have I have spoken passionately in this forum on this program of my absolute love for this country and what I think would be best for this country, and it ain't Hillary Clinton.
And it isn't Barack Obama.
Neither one of them.
I have no desire to see liberals triumph anywhere in any way, shape, manner, or form.
I have made this abundantly clear.
Thus, shouldn't it be simple to conclude that the real objective is objected Operation Chaos is, as I have said, it provides a mechanism and a forum to weaken both of these two so that whenever November comes around, no matter what our candidate happens to be saying or doing, he'll win.
Because these two will have been deemed unacceptable because they are unacceptable.
Neither of them are qualified.
They are liberals.
It is though this program requires a super secret receiver with a password, and then only select few get it, and therefore only a select few actually know what happens on this program.
This you know, for for him to sit here and say the New York Times piece completely misses the motive behind both parties here.
There's nothing mysterious or hidden about we're doing.
All you gotta do is listen, right, Brian.
Now, it can get continued uh this discussion.
Scarborough and Chris Matthews have this exchange.
He will be the king of the opposition.
Government is all right.
Well, you know, you know the thing is, uh, Chris, uh Rush Limbaugh was really one of the most important figures in 1994 when Republicans got into power.
You now fast forward to 2008 where there is no strong Republican leader on Capitol Hill.
That just makes somebody like Rush Limbaugh all the more powerful because there is no conservative voice coming from Capitol Hill.
Joe, would you rather be uh Rush Lombaugh depending a half-hearted conservative president that you had to defend half the time?
Would you rather be on full attack mode?
Raming speed against Hillary Clinton and the president of the United States.
Talk about fun.
Well, we never found out what Scarborough was going to say there.
The worst there once again they're assuming that I have no desire to sit here to try to defend uh McCain.
I'd rather have somebody to attack.
Uh when you balance that against my often expressed awe and love and respect for this country and my desire not to see its traditions and institutions, those that made it great, torn apart and rebuilt under the mantle of socialism, and yet they can still theorize that all of this is just about me personally when it's all about the country.
It's all about doing he's right about one thing.
There's no scarborough, there's no conservative leadership in Washington.
Zilch, zero.
We got some conservative guys as some great people up there, but they're not in positions of leadership nationally.
It's one of the most frustrating things for us as conservatives right now.
Uh and so there are certain steps that have to be taken to make sure that conservatism uh remains viable, strong, confident, of good cheer, and willing to keep working and fighting for what we all believe in.
It's not complicated at all.
Bridgeport, West Virginia, as we start on the phones on open line Friday.
This is Gordon.
Great to have you here, sir.
A uh field report from Operation Chaos in West Virginia, sir.
Yes, sir.
Uh, yesterday, President Bill Clinton was uh in Clarksburg, West Virginia, uh orating from uh someone's front porch with several hundred people around.
And during the course of his comments, he was uh noting that the big difference between Hillary and Barack Obama was how they viewed or looked down on other people.
Yes.
Uh we have I read that someplace.
I don't know if I've got the sound bite, but I know exactly what you're talking about.
Um, this isn't it.
Uh but uh no he's basically talking about elitism, and he's saying Obama's elite and the Clintons are real people, and they understand what we people think and want and do.
And Obama's out there and he's when he's elitist and thinks he knows what's better for everybody uh while looking down on something like that, right?
Exactly.
Well, what was your reaction to this?
I had to laugh because uh uh with them being as real people, uh I mean, looking at how much money they make and where they you know hang their hat and what circles they run in, uh they're kind of in the same ballpark.
Listen to this.
Listen to this.
Audio sound bite number 10.
Remember John Kerry going into some place that can I get me a hunting license here?
Obama was in uh Indiana at a bar.
And uh this is what he said.
I'm gonna have a bud.
What do you got?
Bloody marriage or something?
Yes.
Bloody marriage for this gentleman.
So he's in a ordered up Budweiser at a bar in Indiana.
What do you got there?
Bloody Mary and Bloody Mary for this.
So he's buying adult beverages for Indians at the bar.
Got a bud?
Got a bud.
Yeah, this is so they're all trying to get to these white blue-collar voters now, folks, back in a seg.
It's open line Friday.
I am Rush Limbaugh, executing a sign to host duties flawlessly.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Isn't it amazing?
There are headlines all over the news today.
Hey, maybe the worst is over.
Dow Jones up above 13,000.
The unemployment rate is coming back down.
The dollar looks to be getting stronger.
Do you know who is livid over all of these reports?
That would be your favorite Democrats.
What's good for America, bad for them, particularly in an election year?
But how can this happen?
I mean, what gets me is I the how susceptible everybody is to drive by media reports.
So for all this time, how that how long have they been pushing a recession?
Easily a year.
The drive-by media has been pushing a recession and all of these other disastrous things.
So people come to accept that it's true.
You got less than one half of one percent of homes being foreclosed on.
One out of every one hundred and ninety-four.
That's less than one half of one percent, and yet most of the country thinks everybody's being kicked out of their house.
You have the gas price going up, and yet people are still driving out all over the place.
Have you noticed how packed athletic events are, the NBA playoffs, major league baseball games?
Those tickets are not cheap anymore.
And yet people are there.
Yeah, Rush, it's the rich.
No, no, no, no.
Richard Point is they're more rich than ever before in this country.
That's that's the that's the key.
I don't know about you, as rush hour getting any thinner despite the price of gasoline.
We haven't had any food riots in this country.
We have uh we don't have any any rationing of food going on in this country.
So all of a sudden, after all of this bad, hey, we have turned a corner.
After one day on the stock market, after an unemployment report comes out.
Do you re do you realize what a what a um a precipice?
The drive-by media has everybody sitting on every day in this country, constant doom and gloom.
You want to hear more doom and gloom?
Ladies and gentlemen, this next story, there is no excuse.
Not in this country, not in 2008.
Fifty-eight percent of black children cannot swim.
This is unacceptable.
In this country with this affluence, with this much money being spent in the public school system, with as many swimming pools and bodies of water as their fifty-eight percent cannot swim of the black children population.
As the AP reports, nearly 60% of African American children can't swim.
And not only is that fact standalone by itself bad enough, that's almost twice the figure for white children.
Twice as many black kids can't swim as can white kids.
This is according to a first of its kind survey, which USA swimming hopes will strengthen its efforts to lower minority drowning rates, and to draw more oh, this it gets even worse every word.
Word by word, the story is bad enough that 58% of black kids can't swim.
Then it gets even worse when you find that only half that number of white kids can't swim.
Then you find out that blacks are drowning at a greater rate than blacks, and so s uh blacks are drowning at a greater rate than uh raped and whites.
So now we've got to get something called U.S. swimming To strengthen its efforts to lower minority drowning rates.
Stark statistics underline the initiatives with a national governing body for swimming.
Black children down.
Black children drown at a rate almost three times the overall rate, and less than two percent of USA swimming's nearly 252,000 members who swim competitively year-round are black.
To alter the numbers, USA swimming is teeming with an array of partners, local governments, corporations, youth, and ethnic organizations to expand learn to swim programs nationwide, many of whom now this is the key here.
Many of whom are targeted at inner city minorities.
One of the key programs nationwide, black freestyle star Cullen Jones, who hopes to boost his role model status by winning a medal at the Beijing Olympics.
Let me cut to the chase.
This survey consisted of 1,772 children between six and sixteen in six cities.
Two-thirds of them black or Hispanic.
What does this tell us?
Tells us very simply that the problem of black swimming failure and drowning is in inner cities.
Urban populations.
I ask you, because this is this is intolerable.
This this not in this country, not in this age.
58% drowned.
That's just unacceptable.
Who runs these cities?
Who runs these cities where black kids are drowning at three times the rate of white kids?
The way liberals would normally look at this, okay, okay.
We want to get as many white kids drowning as black kids to make it fair.
But that's not the way we should look at this.
Democrats run cities where black kids are not being taught to swim and ergo, they are drowning.
And yet, and yet blacks stay with Democrats, vote Democrat every four years, every presidential election.
Moral of the story, super delegates fear not taking away the nomination from Obama.
Fifty-eight percent of black kids are drowning.
They can't swim.
Black people stay with Democrats.
As I've been saying all week, you do far worse to the black community, and have done far worse to the black community, you liberal Democrats, than this taking Obama's super delegates away from him would be.
Jane in Detroit, I'm glad you called O'Topen Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
And the one thing that I want to say is, you know, I understand Operation Chaos and what you're sort of trying to do, but at the end of all things, like John McCain is some kind of big prize that we're gonna get at the end of it all.
Never said that.
Well, all three of them all three of them think, Rush.
All three of them do.
And one of them's gonna win.
Well, I'm not not necessarily.
I am not voting for the lesser of two evils ever again.
I am going to write in my candidate, and hopefully that'll say something that if they can't get half the Electoral College, then something else is gonna have to break.
Because they all think I don't want any of them in it, and that's pretty much what I'm gonna do.
That doesn't look you don't want that.
Because if it doesn't get, if neither of them get it, with two candidates you're gonna have, well, Naders in there, you know, it's a wild card.
You don't know what's gonna happen later.
And you don't want to, you know, Ron Paul may not quit.
I mean, he'd be.
So who knows?
That's who I'm writing in, Rush is Ron Paul.
Well, good.
That that's helpful.
Uh it's better than voting for the lesser of two evils.
Everybody keeps doing it, and they wonder why.
I understand, I understand, and you're really what's frustrating is you have no choice.
The parties have given you choices that uh you know, they're might as you know, might as well give you cold spaghetti, right?
They think you know it, and I know it, Rush.
Yeah.
But here...
Sorry.
Well, that's all I can say.
That's all I could say.
That's pretty powerful, very, very powerful.
You're sure you don't want to add anything to this.
No.
What I was gonna what I was gonna tell you out there, Jane.
By the way, Jane's in my all-time top ten favorite female.
Hey, all right.
I was wondering about that.
Yeah, it is.
I was gonna tell you if if if if we got you got Raider and Paul and the uh and McCain and whoever the Democrats uh throw up there for slaughter, you got four of them in there, and if nobody gets two hundred and seventy electoral votes, do you know how the whole thing's decided?
Uh actually I'm pretty clueless about it.
Congress.
Do you happen to know who runs Congress?
Uh most likely the Democrats right now.
Democrats run Congress.
This all be decided in the House of Representatives if you don't get the 270 electoral votes.
Well, I tell you what, Ron Paul's got a lot of Democrats coming to his side.
So Yeah.
Well, you count on that.
You count on that when the Democrats have a choice between Obama or Hillary or Ron Paul.
Hey, Rafa, hope for America, right?
Hope for America.
That's not it's not the point.
It's not the point.
I'm gonna call you Chris Matthews if you keep talking.
So I'm gonna say so long.
Thanks much for the phone call and have a great electoral season.
Have a great summer out there.
It's open line Friday Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution, wrapping up another brilliant week of broadcast excellence from the EIB Southern Command to Columbus, Ohio.
This is Guy.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're up next.
Hello.
Mega did us, Rush.
Thank you, sir very much.
I've been listening to you for a long time.
I can remember when you started experiencing your hearing loss, how your voice I couldn't even recognize it on the radio.
It sounded so different.
And you've spoken about how if you hadn't heard music before your hearing loss, you wouldn't be able to recognize it now.
This is true.
And I've always been curious how you're able to mimic people like Bill Clinton and John McCain so dead on with your with your hearing loss the way it is.
Well, you know, that I I've same thing with music.
I uh I I knew their voices before I lost uh my hearing.
And so just it's I don't know, just I could you know you you talked about how my voice was changing during my hearing loss.
Right.
There were things that around here, people I I didn't talk about it because I frankly wasn't aware of it.
But uh the people here were they were worried silly because this didn't know what was wrong.
Nobody they were gingerly tiptoeing around me about something going wrong with your voice, and I was blaming it on audio equipment.
We had at the time there were some stations using a thing called a cash box.
Uh what the cash box does, it's a digital piece of equipment that speeds up programming so the stations can fit in extra commercials.
So I figured, well, there's somebody's going nuts with a cash box out there somewhere, one of our affiliates.
And it turned out I was losing my voice and I was losing the ability to hear myself, and that's why the voice was uh going all over the place.
Once I got the cochlear implant, started hearing myself again.
I think it's just I think you you're very kind to bring this up, but you're very flattered uh with your with your uh wonderful comment, but it's it's just I don't know, my memory.
And I've always tried to mimic people as a way of telling people what somebody said rather than just read quotes from them.
That's amazing.
You're on a you're like a you're like a rich little almost.
I mean, Whoa, no, no, no.
I'm not I I do two or three voices that are pretty good, but that's it.
I I can't do anybody I want to.
Uh can't do Obama.
I I I could do Obama's inflections, but I couldn't do his voice.
Uh I could do Edwards' inflections.
I think that eh.
But I can't, you know, I I can't I Paul Shanklin, the white comedian, a well-known white comedian that does our musical parodies here now.
There is a guy who's rich little.
Yes.
But you're very kind to ask, and I uh I appreciate it.
Uh you know, the uh I've worked with my my voice, my brain, my voice, uh are my instruments, my uh that I play the the where I earn my my income and I've you know worked on my voice constantly because I came from Southeast Missouri, I come from Southeast Missouri.
And Southeast Missouri has a notable dialect.
And it's called Southeast Missouri twang.
And uh it's not it's not uh it's not southern, but it's close.
And it sounds like the pe the people there say get and forget in yours.
Uh and some of them were nasal when they when they talk that way.
And when I wanted to be on the radio first time when I was fifteen and I heard a tape of myself, oh, that's just not gonna work.
Uh Well uh no I can't change my voice now.
I my voice used to not be what it is.
I learned to breathe diaphragmatically.
Uh the the breathing process is crucial in a voice.
The longer the pathway that your exhalations take during speech, the more resonant and rich uh and vibrant the voice will be.
As opposed to if you just breathe through your throat only.
He can sound this is exactly how you sound if you only if you stay.
Uh if somebody that breathes diaphragmatically, and you can you can hear a professional who breathes diaphragmatically because you'll hear a quick, and you'll see their stomach stick out when they breathe in.
A lot of people would take a deep breath if they don't know how to breathe diaphragmatically, they're chest to go out and they're not getting a deep breath at all.
So no, I can't imitate myself the way I used to, other than I used to say get and forget in yours.
So the way, you know, we in radio, ladies and gentlemen, we they're they're the newcomers and actually some veterans.
We have a nickname for them.
They're called Ron Radios, or pukers.
Uh and you've heard them.
I mean, they're all over the place, uh mostly in small stations where they're just starting out.
I w I was a Ron radio.
This is I overcame the uh Southeast Missouri twang.
Uh but uh they just they vomit everything they say.
Hey, and uh and they talk the weather forecast and the and see I'm mixing it with Clinton.
That's not good.
Let me try it again.
So Clinton is actually a Ron radio the way I do it.
Uh but they just they uh hey, how are you?
Vomit?
And they took the the temperature instead of temperature, because people say temperature, say overemphasized temperature My objective uh uh uh at that the uh start of this was to be able to speak in such a way that nobody could tell what part of the country I came from.
That was the objective.
I'm worried.
I try to do Ron radio and Bill Clinton comes out.
That's that means Bill Clinton is in my soul.
That's I just got an email from our official climatologist Royce Spencer.
It says, What what frequencies do you have the biggest trouble hearing?
The higher the frequency uh the impossibility I'll hear it as you do.
Like somebody can play the piano, and every note sounds the same if I've not heard the melody.
And even if I know the melody, when you get to those high notes, I don't hear them as you do.
I hear the note, I hear the sound, but I don't hear the frequency that it is.
Uh this comes in handy uh on occasion.
Uh the lower frequencies, uh bass voices, uh percussion, bass lines in music.
Uh fine and dandy strings, like in a movie soundtrack, literally sound like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
But this differs from every patient that has a cochlear implant.
Nobody hears the same with one of the nobody's identical.
Uh so it it it's just it it how do how does how does what come in hand?
What are you talking about?
Not being able to hear the higher frequencies?
Well, sometimes it comes in handy because it's women, but other times it actually it's a it's a problem because you you you need to hear what a woman's saying to you sometimes, you can't hear it, especially if she doesn't want anybody else to hear what she's saying.
So really frustrating thing.
People know that I'm deaf and know that I've got a volume control on this thing, but the louder I turn, if I'm in a room with a lot of people, the louder I turn it, the worse it gets, because all the ring the room noise is three times ten times as loud as the one voice I'm trying to hear, but it's right next to me.
So somebody will still try to whisper to me.
And if it's a female whisper, it's hopeless.
I won't hear it.
Uh and of course, the female don't want everybody to hear what they're saying.
So uh they just have to postpone it until the evening's over.
At which point, this is where the good fortune comes in.
You usually forget it and uh don't have to hear it anyway.
Fred in in in Lakewood, Pennsylvania.
Welcome.
Yes, hello, Rush.
Yeah, hi, how are you?
Yeah, I have a c uh quick observation, and um one is I hope that Fred isn't one of your top ten female names.
You hope Fred is no, of course not uh not even Fred Rica.
And uh I saw a soundbite the other day as it was regarding synthetic fuel from coal.
And it was the Governor Montana was on, and uh he brought up a point that back in the early 70s they were pursuing synthetic fuel from coal.
And the drawback was it was fifty approximately fifty-five dollars a barrel back when crude was eighteen, so it wasn't cost effective.
Now you don't hear anything more of that now.
Do you are are you familiar with that at all?
I'm very familiar with it, and there is a lot of this kind of uh of energy, various kinds of oil.
Uh in there's a lot of it in Canada.
The U.S. will not import because it's too dirty.
We're we're we're putting all these restrictions on ourselves.
Uh there's plenty out there.
Uh and even the alternative, the stuff synthetic is not really alternative, but there's no reason to panic over any of this.
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