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Dec. 19, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 19, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers conversation.
Hey, congratulations on the Mix Minus.
Mix Minus is working today.
I know you're asking what the Mix Minus is.
Don't sweat it, folks.
It's an inside big time media term.
Anyway, it's Friday, so let's hit it up.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Oh, yeah, Open Mine Friday heading us into a big NFL weekend.
Two big games this weekend, the Pittsburgh Steelers in Nashville to play the Tennessee Titans at one o'clock on Sunday.
And then on Sunday night, we have the uh New York Giants hosting the Carolina Panthers.
And tomorrow night's not insignificant either.
The Dallas Cowboys hosting the Baltimore Thu uh Reagan Ravens, Ravens on the NFL Network.
Plus it's Christmas time.
It's the holiday season.
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I'm just about over this.
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I'll yeah, I'll do some analysis of the Steelers Titans.
In fact, might even today, not guaranteeing this, but I might bring back the environmentalist wacko picks for some uh for some selected games.
Looks like George W. Bush just saved two million jobs, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, that's uh that's one possible spin on this.
Barack Obama, by the way, Michelle Obama's all upset.
Michelle Obama's upset they've got no place to stay in Washington.
The president elect and his family have no place to stay in Washington, D.C. When this story, the networks are trying to build this story up is it's not actually true.
They have places to stay, they just don't want to stay in those places.
You see, Blair House, which is the, I guess you call it the presidential guest house, across the street from the White House, it's tradition that the incoming president and his family move in there on January 15th.
The Obamas wanted to move in there on uh January the second or third to get ready for the little crumb cruncher Obamas to start scroll.
But apparently there are people in Blair House up until the 15th.
The White House turned down the request made by the President Select and his uh and his family.
And so they're struggling.
Now, Obama has an apartment in Washington that he uses and has used while there doing work uh in the uh in the Senate.
However, I have come to learn that Michelle Obama has never stayed in that apartment, meaning that Michelle Obama has never traveled to Washington with Barack Obama while he's here or was there working in the uh in the United States Senate.
They also, the Bush administration offered them uh digs at a nearby military base.
They didn't want to go there.
So now they're looking at hotels, and the point of the story is they have no place to stay, but it's not true.
They do.
They just the place that traditionally stays not going to be available, as tradition says, until January 15th, five days before the inauguration, but they've got his apartment.
They have uh you you know that I know the hotels are going to be booked for the inauguration, but you know that a hotel there, the four seasons, the Mayflower, somebody would give them a big suite or two until they until they move in.
A big deal's being made about this.
That the president select going to Washington has no place to stay.
Which is just flat out.
It just isn't true.
By the way, speaking of Chicago politics, the uh governor of Illinois, Rod Blagoyovich is going to go public in some shape, manner, or form this afternoon, precisely When this program ends, the Blogoevich presser will start at 2 p.m.
Central, which for those of you who are Obama voters is 3 p.m.
Eastern, which is when this program ends.
And the by the way, there's some agitation in the drive-bys over two things.
This big document dumped that the Clintons made yesterday on the massage parlor and the Clinton Foundation.
$500 million and a lot of it is from the Middle East.
A lot of it is from Saudi Arabia.
Drive bys are pouring through it, and but they think it's a late document dump going into a weekend.
And there's so many pages that it's not it's not really worth going through.
And then Obama next week will announce the results of his in-depth investigation by his own lawyer of the uh Blogoevich pay and play scandal for the Senate.
And the drive-by's are a little upset that all this is not going to happen till next week.
What they really want to Clinton right now.
What they really care about is uh who from the Obama camp may have been talking to Blogevich.
More and more news coming out in the Chicago papers about how uh Ram Emanuel had extensive conversations with Blogo about this very thing, trying to push Valerie Jarrett of Obama's good bud for the Supreme Court for the uh the Senate seat from Illinois.
It's also been learned, uh, ladies and gentlemen, Caroline Kennedy Schlossburg has not voted very much since 1988.
She has she really has.
She hasn't voted very much since uh since 1988.
And this yeah, yeah, the the drive-bys did an extensive, well, for them, they did an extensive look see to see um just look these records up, and she apparently didn't vote very much.
But she was out there being a good mother at the time and caring a lot about a lot of things, and so her qualifications have been ramped up.
Now remember, Obama promised to add or save two million jobs.
Remember?
First said he was gonna add two million jobs, policies would add two million jobs over the course of a couple years or so, and then he started adding the word save to the figure.
Add and save two million dollars.
Well, George W. Bush just saved two million jobs for him.
The figure they're throwing around here is that the an auto bankruptcy would cost one to three million jobs.
So you round that off, uh, you get two million dollars.
Bush just saved them before Obama saves them again.
So by the time we're finished here, we will have saved four million jobs because Obama will claim his two million.
Here are the details of the well, it's 17.4 billion.
Ford says they don't want it.
All they want is a little bridge loan of nine million to get them through.
They're a line of credit, is actually what they want.
The the uh here's here's the the the I guess what would you call it?
The uh Well, this the the reason they can't go bankruptcy, I'm I'm having a uh uh a mental block here on the word that's that the the the is used to describe this, but the reason they can't go bankruptcy is because channel uh chapter 11 would eventually become chapter seven.
Chapter seven's liquidation, and they don't want to liquidate, and they can't go bankrupt uh into bankruptcy.
The reason even structured, and the reason is that they this is the this is the given reason.
Well, no, nobody will buy any cars from General Motors or Chrysler if they go into bankruptcy.
As it is not like when U.S. Air or other airlines have gone into bankruptcy, you still go out, buy your ticket, you fly, you get your frequent flyer miles.
But here, the theory is that if uh any of the auto companies go into bankruptcy, that customers will not feel confident that any warranty that's promised will be honored because they won't know whether the company is going to be around to honor.
And the word bankruptcy is is thought to confuse a lot of people, and uh it is even if you use the word reorganization in front of it, and they're just scared to death of what the the uh buying public will think.
Okay, so it may not even be any dealerships.
Why should I go in and plop down whatever it's gonna cost me to buy a car over however many number of years when I don't even know if they're gonna be able to honor the warranty on this car or fix it?
Well, I mean, where do I take it for service?
This this is this is the uh the this is the line being used to say this is why we can't do this when we had to do the loans.
The loans, low interest are extended through the end of March.
The auto companies have until the end of March to come up with a new restructuring plan, or the loans will be recalled.
I made a couple phone calls today to find out some details about this.
And one of the first questions I had was can Obama change this?
The answer yes.
Obama can do whatever he wants with it because there's no statutory aspect of this since Congress did not act.
This is strictly presidential from the TARP funds.
So if Obama wants to, he can go in and he can cancel it, he can expand it, he can he can do whatever he wants.
So the United Auto Workers have been bailed out.
Here's the president today with uh couple comments on this.
Under ordinary economic circumstances, I would say this is the price that failed companies must pay.
And I would not favor intervening to prevent the automakers from going out of business.
But these are not ordinary circumstances.
In the midst of a financial crisis and a recession, allowing the U.S. auto industry to collapse is not a responsible course of action.
And the president added this.
My economic advisors believe that such a collapse would deal an unacceptably painful blow to hardworking Americans far beyond the auto industry.
It would worsen a weak job market and exacerbate the financial crisis.
It could send our suffering economy into a deeper and longer recession.
And it would leave the next president to confront the demise of a major American industry in his first days of office.
Well, what's wrong with that?
See what the guy's made of.
Only kidding, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
The um the thing going around here is that if the auto companies failed, it would result in a one percent drop of the gross domestic product this year.
Uh and and that that is significant.
One percent drop of the GDP.
This is this is what's being said to justify what has uh what has happened here.
Now, bankruptcy, you know, is it it i it isn't entered into blindly.
Uh we're also hearing that bankruptcy is just too massive.
It would take way too long.
The auto companies are just too large.
And their subsidiaries, suppliers and so forth, all would be involved.
It would take months to figure out how to do it all.
But there is this thing called a pre-arranged bankruptcy or protected bankruptcy that uh that would effectively be bankruptcy, but everything set out in advance uh to a large extent.
The public would be informed of how it would work, including repairs, service warranties, and so forth.
Um bankruptcy would work.
Uh this is there's some legacy things here.
I'm sure the Bush administration does not want to leave office with one or two of the auto companies closing down.
That's a large factor here, too, plus the one percent uh, you know, effect on GDP if uh if all this happens.
So it is what it is.
It has amp, and I told you, you know, I don't I don't mean to be, and I told you so here, but it was going to happen one way or the other.
And I it's pretty it's pretty much happened the way I think.
Here's enough to get all of this kicked down the road so Obama can deal with it later.
Obama ha can do with this anything he wants.
He can expand it, he can cut it, he can terminate it.
Rick Wagoner today in Detroit held a press conference, said chairman of General Motors, and here is a portion of what he said.
The term sheet does call for a I think presidential designate is the word.
I think you could, you know, call that the cars are uh could can be a person or persons.
And I'd have to say honestly, we haven't had a lot of conversations about the process that's going to be used there.
So we're we're gonna uh see as we go along.
We didn't uh engage in any extensive negotiations around that topic at all.
It sounds like uh uh Mr. Wagner is essentially saying that he doesn't know many of the details of how this is all going to work.
Uh whether or not there's going to be a car czar or a presidential designate that he's going to have to deal with, all those things will uh be dealt with as they happen.
All right, a brief time out here, folks.
It's open line Friday takes a brief pause, and we'll be back and continue right after this.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis, 17 billion dollars.
Basically, for the United Auto workers.
And nothing else has been changed.
And if Obama can do whatever he wants on his watch, then what we have bought here is simply a bridge to the Obama administration.
Three months for 17 billion dollars.
You know, at some point we're going to have to deal with some reality here, and I don't see it ever happening.
But at some point it's going to have to have.
Now, there are, by the way, there are some things in this that of course can be stricken when legislators take a whack at it.
But I think part of this bailout is that the they're how to express this.
As you know, California has sued the big three automakers because they're reluctant, well, maybe no, the big three has sued California.
California's put these ridiculously obscene, absurd uh emission standards, mileage requirements on the manufacturers.
And the I think this deal, uh, this uh presidential directive, whatever this is to be called, standardizes all these cafe standards.
Now, this is not the states are gonna fight this, but the it's an effort by the administration to do something here with the with the differences that exist from state to state and the federal government has cafe business.
But this is the point until something's done about that, until some of some of the just the hyper and overregulation of the automobile industry by a bunch of doofuses who haven't the slightest idea.
If you if you went to your average member of Congress or the Senate and said, okay, we need to start building this thing called a car, and uh the car's gonna have an engine, it's gonna have four wheels, and it's gonna get people from point A to point B at speeds up to 120 miles an hour.
Do you think there's anybody in Congress who would know what the first thing you do is?
This would be like putting me in charge of bridge building in the new infrastructure budget, the Obama administration.
If somebody came to me and said, Okay, Limboy, you're you're you're the czar of bridges, and we need to build a bridge from here to here.
I wouldn't know what to do first.
Members of Congress don't know what to do first when building a car, but they sure as hell know what to do to stand in the way of cars being built that people actually want to buy.
Nothing structural has changed with this money.
Cafe standards are still what they are, uh, and other uh punitive regulations that stand in the way of experts executing their job with their own know-how.
Now there's a story here by Jacqueline Mitchell from Forbes.com on the on the best and worst-selling cars of this year.
And it's uh as I printed out, and it's three pages.
And I've looked at every vehicle mentioned in this story, and I cannot find a hybrid.
I cannot find an electric car in the best and even worst selling.
I mean, the wor they're apparently they sell so badly they don't even make the worst list.
They don't sell enough to make the bottom.
Apparently the Ford F-150 and the Chevrolet Silverado are the two best-selling vehicles so far in America this year.
They uh the pickup trucks, the F-150 from Ford, 473,000, 933 buyers this year.
That's the number one selling car for 2008.
The Chevrolet Silverado, 431,725 buyers.
Pretty close here, but the F-150 is number one.
Uh and and number five among the worst-selling vehicles so far is the Nissan Armada.
Uh 14,753 buyers.
But I'm not gonna go through the whole list here.
Uh, but it's it's it's extensive, and there's not a that I can find there's not a hybrid or an electric car on this list, certainly not at the top of the best-selling cars.
And when you when you look at the best-selling cars, they're big pickup trucks.
Now, the bottom fell out of SUVs, but that's because the price of gasoline this year peaked uh at a tipping point of about four dollars a gallon.
And that that too is one of the things that had a profound uh negative impact on the automobile industry this year.
And the uh the volatility of what is oil is now 33, 34 bucks a barrel.
Uh it's it's the the the volatility in the price of this commodity is is uh is also providing its own problem.
Now that the price has fallen, some people still don't trust it's gonna stay there.
Uh if it got to four bucks in two months, it can do it again.
You're you're only smart to think that that's possible.
But anyway, I mentioned the year's best and worst selling cars because Washington's now in the car building business, and the cars they want us to drive don't even make the worst selling list.
They're so poorly sold, they don't even make the bottom of the list.
They're certainly nowhere near the top.
No hybrids mentioned in this story, and certainly uh no electric cars and no hydrogen buses.
I don't see one of those on here either.
Ha!
Are you?
It's great to be with you, folks.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year's Eve.
I hope you're able to give everything that you'd like to give this year.
That's the that's the real fun of Christmas.
Open line Friday.
We had a call and a caller chickened out.
The caller hung up.
Caller did not have the guts to ask me the question directly with Mr. Snerdley.
I saw the, you know, I get a one-line advisory about whatever the caller wants to talk about, and this guy wanted to how can you square pollution with global warming or something?
He asked Mr. Sterley, what was he going to say?
Mr. Sterley said he said, Well, look, big fan of yours listens to you all the time, of course, who doesn't.
He says he's got a problem with your stand on global warming.
He says he lives in Boston.
He says, since uh the 1900s, they've been how many cars did he say?
Okay, 400% increase in automation in what period of time?
Not that it matters, but what 400% increase in the number of cars since the early 1900s.
I think it'd be more than that, but regardless.
His point was look, you can I live in Boston, and you can see the pollution.
You can see the haze.
Look at my friends, of course you can.
But it's not all generated by automobiles.
If it were, there would be there would be smog levels in LA every day.
And they would be consistent because the cars are there every day.
They would be constant, and they would increase as more and more people buy cars, regardless of our emission efforts.
I've lived in New York City.
A lot of the haze that you people think you're seeing, well that you are seeing, and it happens in the summertime.
How often do you see this haze in the winter?
By the way, you know, I do a lot of flying, ladies and gentlemen, and I flew back from Nueva York on Wednesday, and we got out of there, and it was now, it was overcast, a It was not, it wasn't precipitating.
But the whole way back down the East Coast, we just we skim the East Coast on the way down so the satellite reception doesn't lose.
We don't take the shortcut out over the Atlantic.
Uh, we skim the coast.
And you look down, it was a clear night most of the way down.
There wasn't any haze out there.
It was as clear as it could be, and the same number of cars that were there last summer are down there now.
Uh I've have you ever noticed if you live in a in an area with uh hot, muggy summers, uh, and even some of this that happens in the spring and the fall.
Have you ever noticed what happens after a cold front goes through?
Poof.
It's as clear as a bell.
I heard this rigamorole when I lived out in Sacramento.
When I lived out in Sacramento, the environmentalist wackos would call me and say, Rush, you know, 20, 30 years ago, you go out there on I-80 on the way up the hill to Lake Tahoe, and you can see the snow caps up there in the Sierra Nevada.
And on certain days, you still could, but there were still the same number of cars.
I don't deny that cars are polluting.
A lot of what you're seeing is an ozone inversion, by the way, is not autopollution.
A lot of haze is uh is low-level ozone.
Ozone is an atmospheric gas, as we all know, but sometimes there's an inversion, and that's when they give the old people and the people with respiratory problems, these advisories, don't go outside.
There's ozone out there, and ozone is made by the sun.
Ozone is not made by automobiles.
Now, don't folks, don't misunderstand here.
I am not denying that the things that we do pollute.
What I'm telling you is that we do a better job of cleaning up our messes than anywhere else in the world that is as industrialized as uh as we are.
But it's something very simple.
You've got pollution, you got ozone, you've got mugginess, you've got haze.
How about Nat Cole?
1965, roll out the lazy, hazy crazy.
1965, they're singing about the haze.
It's a common factor in the summertime.
It's called ozone.
In 1965, we haven't even heard of these global warming nutcases.
They were getting, they were on the verge then of talking about global cooling and a new ice age.
Roll out the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.
You know, I what happens here, folks, is very simple.
And I know that the leftists in this audience and the drive by this, they're gonna chalk up what I'm gonna say next is the perfect evidence that Limbaugh is a simpleton.
But I'm just observing.
What happens is that a coal front comes through, generally has rain, and rain washes out the dirt in the sky.
It's just amazing.
Now I maintain to you people that this is a little common sense here.
And of course, I'm gonna get confirmation from this from our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville.
If all of our smokestacks, and if all of our automobiles, and if all of our whatever else that we do that pollutes, if all of our cows, methane, is responsible for this, it would be there every day, and nothing would get rid of it because we are supplying it every day.
I have been in Southern California on days where it's clear as a bell, you can you have to look hard to see the smog.
I've seen days where it's just impossible to see anything because of the smog.
Uh, trees produce a little some of the ingredients that make smog, not just automobiles.
I've seen this.
But what you need to ask yourself is how the hell can it ever clear up then?
I know what you're gonna say.
Well, Rush, Mother Nature trying.
Mother Nature's trying.
She's trying to get back to the way it was before we destroyed the environment.
But Mother Nature can't keep up with us anymore.
Eventually our automobiles start pulling wrong, folks, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
We have not that kind of power.
If it ever, if it didn't clear up, if those days of haze didn't ever vanish, then maybe we can talk.
You people, that you get so concerned about all this.
You just need to apply a little common sense.
And you need to drop some of the vanity and some of the arrogance.
We are just human beings.
We are equal opportunity residents of this planet.
We have every right to be here and use our intelligence as we see fit with good stewardship.
We are the only living organisms on this planet that can plan, that can think, that can adjust.
Everything else is living on the basis of instinct, evolution, adaptation, or what have you.
They do things like my little cat.
You know I love my little cat.
Pumpkin.
Cats have been domesticated for 10,000 years.
There's an argument raging over whether we domesticated the cat or whether the cat domesticated itself by just walking into the house one day and staying.
But regardless, my little cat, not every day, but more often than not, I feed the little cat two or three times a day.
And I put the food in a bowl, and if I watch the cat eat, if I watch pumpkin eat, she will, after she finishes, start moving dirt over her food to hide it from other animals.
What she's doing is scratching a carpet.
A perfectly fine carpet when I got her.
She's scratching the carpet.
She's covering it, and I'm looking at her and say, Punky, nobody's gonna take your food.
And I think, what an idiot.
She doesn't know what I'm saying.
And she doesn't know what she's doing.
She thinks she's still out there in the prehistoric age, protecting her food from predators.
She's not thinking about it.
She doesn't just instinct.
So, you know, they do what they do.
We do what we do.
We have stewardship.
We have dominance because we're smarter.
We walk upright.
We talk.
They don't.
I know some of you pet owners think that you're and they may.
I'm I don't want to get into that, but you know what I'm talking about here.
But even to that, because this see, this gives us all kind of vanity.
We go out and capture King Kong.
Well, we are powerful.
We can create a nuclear bomb.
Wow, we are powerful and we're dangerous.
We can invent giant airplanes that defy what appears to be logic.
They weigh gazillions of tons and they fly in the air.
People don't stop to think requires a lot of speed for that to happen.
But nevertheless, so we can do all these things.
We must be destroying the planet.
We don't have.
If we wanted to, we don't know how to do it.
We don't know how to get rid of the ozone at street level that we didn't cause.
I get so worn out going through all this because it's just common sense, and it's also you need to have a little humility to answer these questions.
Common sense and humility drop the vanity and drop the arrogance.
Some of you people believe this rot gut amaze me.
On the one hand, you think we're no different than a rat, no different than a dog, no different than a cat, no different than a cow.
On the other hand, we are so invincible, we can destroy a planet whose creation we cannot even explain.
We look into the sky at night, we see the stars.
We're lost.
It takes faith.
Be it and if you want around be an agnostic, be an atheist, or be a person of devout religious belief, it still takes faith when you look up there to try to understand it.
Because you can't prove it.
This notion that we can destroy the planet, this notion that automobiles, I refuse to believe in a God that creates this kind of beauty would create human beings with the ability to destroy the planet while enhancing their lives, while improving their lives, while expanding their life expectancy.
That's not the God that I know.
Rush, you are bringing religion in it.
So are they.
The global warming crowd had nothing but religion.
They have a different god.
It's either a tree, it's a mountain, a hummingbird.
You know, whatever the hell they choose to worship.
They can't prove what they believe either.
Although they try to make you think that they can.
Couple sound bites on this.
And I'm really worried.
I know Chad Myers.
I've met Chad Lee two or three times.
Chad's a great meteorologist.
And he works at CNN.
But perhaps not for long.
By the way, did you know CNN, in a massive round of budget cuts, closed down their global warming unit?
Miles O'Brien, who used to run their space unit.
They got rid of Miles, and when Miles went, they, you know, all this hoity torty baloney about global warming went with it.
The Weather Channel, owned now by NBC, got rid of their global warming climate change.
Why?
It must be there wasn't much of an audience for all the documentaries and specials they were doing.
They just zapped them.
So last night, CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, Weatherman Chad Myers was on.
Dobbs said, Chadley, you seeing anything here that directly is tied to something called global warming, fossil fuels, man-made?
Which is the dominant influence overall on weather?
Is it cycles, solar spun, uh sunspots, solar flares, the 11-year cycle?
Is that dominant?
What what's dominant in terms of influencing the weather?
To think that we could affect weather all that much is pretty arrogant.
Mother Nature is so big.
The world is so big, the oceans are so big.
I think we're gonna die from a lack of fresh water, or we're gonna die from ocean acidification before we die from global warming, for sure.
But this is like, you know, you said in your career.
My career's been 22 years long.
That's a good career in TV.
But in the talking about climate, it's like having a car for three days and say this is a great car.
Well, yeah, it was for three days, but maybe in day five, six, and seven, it won't be so good.
And that's what we're doing here.
We have a hundred years worth of data, not millions of years that the world's been around.
Chadley, we do have I know that this is at CNN.
It's on Lou Dobbs last night.
They only saving grace is he might with that it was on Lou Dobbs and not in a weather forecast.
Uh But this is this is this is that's Chadley Myers.
But Chadley, we do have a historical data, not records, but we can go back and look.
We can see when the Earth was frozen.
We see what happened to dinosaurs.
We can see we we have a lot of data beyond a hundred years that shows all kinds of warming and cooling cycles that had nothing to do with whatever humanity at the time was doing.
Also, on Lou Dobbs, he said, Jay, he's got Jay Lair, who was the science director of the Hartland Institute, said Jay, we've been around a little over, by scientific estimates, for point five billion years.
What's your thought about the dominant influence on the weather?
Clearly, Lou, it is the sun.
But if we go back in really recorded human history, in the thirteenth century, we were probably seven degrees Fahrenheit warmer than we are now, and it was a very prosperous time for mankind.
If we go back to the revolutionary war three hundred years ago, it was very, very cold.
We've been warming out of that cold spell from the revolutionary war period, and now we're back into a cooling cycle.
The last ten years have been quite cool, and uh right now I think we're going into cooling rather than warming, and that should be a much greater concern for uh humankind.
But all we can do is adapt.
It is the sun that uh does it, not shallam!
Shazam!
And anybody with common sense would realize it has to be the sun.
By the way, Chadley, we're gonna die from old age, natural causes before we get killed by ocean acidification or lack of fresh water.
Just my prediction.
So the sun is causing it.
Sun has to be the major factor.
If you don't believe me, imagine waking up tomorrow morning, turning on the news and hearing the sun mysteriously went out.
We're dead, folks, if that ever happened.
If it we're dead.
Back in a you want to talk about warming?
Back up.
Open line Friday, and we go to the phones.
This is David in Nashville, Tennessee, where the big showdown between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Houston Oilers takes place at one Eastern on Sunday afternoon.
Welcome, David.
Great to have you here.
Thank you very much.
Didd as Rush.
Uh I w I just wanted to compliment you on being one of the sole positive individuals in the media right now.
It is so bad.
I'm I'm a I'm a conservative talk radio junkie, and some of your competitors are out there.
I have no competitors.
I have colleagues.
Colleagues, yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Number three in the uh lineup basically has become so much of a for lack of a better term, drama queen that I can't even listen to him anymore without being depressed.
And I literally, as a 24-7 subscriber to your website, yes, sir.
I will take your download and replay.
I have a 45-minute commute to work back back and forth every day, and I'll listen to it at work, and then I'll end up listening relistening to that same episode on the commute back and forth to work, just to kind of feel a little bit more positive and try to drown out all the neg negative.
Thank you.
Uh thank you thank you for noticing, sir.
Uh, let me let me tell you why uh I think this is.
I once talked to somebody in the financial newsletter business.
He said he loved crises.
Subscriptions went up.
Every time he was able to write a headline about we're going to hell in a handbasket, but I can keep you from going.
Subscriptions went through the roof.
Also, sir, it's it's the natural human tendency.
It's part of the way we're built.
I've there's nobody that's going to convince me otherwise.
To be negative.
Being positive is takes work.
Oh, absolutely.
Takes up it takes application.
It also takes, you know, having your eyes open.
But I think a lot of these people, a lot of these people you're talking about, are simply trying to join the fear brigade because they think it's going to mean increased listenership uh for for uh for their programs or or what have you.
Right, if it bleeds it leads.
But you know, even given all that, given your personal struggles that you've had to deal with over the last few years, a lot of people would have taken those struggles and actually become very bitter rather than turning into a positive and you know, bouncing back from it and and becoming even better.
Well, you know, that there probably was a time in my life when I would have done that.
I uh had some of these things happened at that point, but I doubt it.
But it it's uh it's possible.
But I mean, I uh I've got ten seconds here before I have to go.
But amidst all this negativism that uh is permeating everywhere you're right, I look at my life and all my friends, and I say, how what what in the world have I got to be negative about?
And why do I want to create a negative future in my mind when it may not happen?
Okay, first hours in the can, but we got two more to go on the fastest.
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