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Jan. 30, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 30, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Rush Linball, making the complex understandable, which is why I have invited my friend to be my next guest.
It's an annual tradition to discuss the Super Bowl on the Friday before the game with Ken Hutcherson, a man of the cloth, the man of a man of God with his own uh his church and flock in Seattle, Washington, a former player for the NFL.
He played the two-tall Jones era with the Dallas Cowboys.
He was a mic linebacker, and he joins us from Seattle.
Great to have you here, Hutch.
It's always a pleasure.
How are you doing, Russ?
I could not be better since you were here, sir.
Oh, I tell you, man, it's gonna be a great Sunday.
Yeah, and I know I I we want to discuss this.
You know, last time we well, when 2005 or 2006 when we did this, it was really tough because you couldn't get past the Homer status that you felt for the Seahawks.
He kept talking about the killer bees, and there wasn't much football analysis.
We want to do football analysis here.
Uh and uh and so how do you see this shaping up?
Well, uh, you know, one of the things, Rush, I wanted to say before we get going, before we have some fun here is I know you don't like all these uh friends putting all these accolades on you, but brother, I'm gonna tell you right off the bat, I am so proud of you uh taking all these hits.
Um there's not very many people out there to standing up.
And uh when they attack you, Rush, they attack me, they attack uh every EIB listener.
Uh uh that is out there, they attack every conservative, and this president, when he said what he said about you, uh didn't know that he was not just attacking you, he's tack he is attacking the idiot.
He's attacking every conservative and telling Congress not to listen to us.
So uh this president shows so l little class.
I haven't seen a president with such little class since LBJ picked this dog up out of ears.
Well, that's interesting, you use ears.
Uh thank you very much, my brother.
I really appreciate you saying that.
I had um I have uh the North Carolina Mitrest sent me a note saying I don't know how you're putting up with this.
I don't know.
I she said, I I I would I would have been reduced to muddle uh after after you know a day or two of this.
I said, Well, it's been twenty years to me I've had to take this kind of stuff as as a sign of success.
I'm actually enjoying it because of the opportunity it presents.
But I appreciate I I appreciate your kind words, I really do.
You bet, and uh just let everybody know out there.
I just want to tell everyone that uh we ought to thank God for this man, and that um we are being attacked too.
This president's telling the leadership not to listen to us, so don't let Rush take all the heat.
You let Congress know.
We're not taking this, and we will be heard.
Amen, brother.
Amen.
Well, let's talk football, my man.
All right.
Now the um let's let's go through the conventional wisdom tonight.
You heard me talk with Coach Dungey yesterday.
Absolutely.
And I asked him the conventional wisdom here is that this game is gonna be the the Steelers defense against Cardinals offense, and that Larry Fitzgerald is superhuman, that this guy is on a row, he's hot right now, and you can triple cover him and you can't stop him.
Well, that's what Troy said, you know.
Palamalu, uh, he said, Man, you uh I just don't know what to do with him.
This guy's just out there somewhere.
And uh I think that um coach's statement really surprised me yesterday uh when you ask him about uh Larry Fitzgerald.
And I I I was just amazed that he would say that the Steelers are gonna try to get someone else to hurt them instead of him.
Uh that's a bad statement.
And I think that maybe because Coach made that statement, we may know why he's lost more playoff games than he's won.
The Hutch.
Not holding back.
Well, I think you know what when I asked him about Fitzgerald, he said, he said, no, that's not true.
He said this is a there's a lot of hype here.
I know Palomalu said it, but James Harrison, who is uh the the Steelers sack leader, also said this week that the game plan has him dropping into coverage, that he's not gonna be rushing, and he's very upset with a game plan, he doesn't like it, but he can't change it.
Well now you know the only way You know that's not true.
What why would he say that why would he tell the truth to the Cardinals?
This little mind game's going on.
I think just like Paulou playing mind games with Fitzgerald, but I don't care about the players.
It's the the the the consensus of the media, all these great analysts is that Fitzgerald can't be stopped, is like there's never been a receiver like him.
And I, you know, I just I resist the tug of popular sentiment on this.
Well, well, what do you what are you gonna do with him?
What what what is the Steelers gonna do with the guy?
I mean I'm asking you, what w if you were the coach, what would you do with him besides send ten of your eleven guys to make sure they sack uh War uh Warner before he's able to throw it.
That's about the only way you're gonna stop this boy.
All right, is to be able to sack Warner.
Let me give you a guy that has a different opinion.
Warren Sapp wrote a piece in USA Today yesterday, and he said the biggest mistake anybody, and the Steelers included could make is to blitz Warner.
When you blitz Warner, you get him he he has the quick release, you get a three-step timing, he's gonna get rid of the ball, you're gonna have not enough people in the secondary to handle the Fitzgeralds and the Breesters.
They've got Bolden, they've got Breeston, and they've got and they got Fitzgerald.
They do have a pretty good wide receiving core.
So his theory was you drop seven back, you fake some blitzes and so forth.
But the more time Warner has, the more the play breaks down.
That's his theory.
Did he actually say that?
Yeah.
Oh my goodness, man.
Where's he getting his football uh information from?
You you better not give Kurt much.
Well, he played, I'm just telling you what Sapp said, and by the way, if you look at the Steelers, when Rothisberger scrambles, every play is backyard football.
There is not most of the Steelers' big plays this year are not executed as drawn up.
And that the defense gets all whacked out because when he starts scrambling escape sacks, those receivers start improvising, nobody knows where they're gonna be except Rothesberger watching them.
That that's something that actually troubles me.
I'd I'd rather see the offensive players executed to a T, but uh basically Sapp was saying what what Rothlessberger is able to exploit, Warner isn't.
Well, that's because if if Ben has a lot of time, he's not scrambling, right?
He's sitting in the box, that's true.
That's true.
That's true.
I mean that if he's if he has a lot of time and they only send a three guys up front, that three-four.
See, the the biggest problem with the three-four with Kurt Warner, is that i even if they send uh uh uh uh uh a stunt in uh you know at him, he's gonna he's gonna sit back there, play action pass, and hit 15 yard passes all day long because those four linebackers are not gonna be able to get back there.
They can drop Harrison back all they want, but he's not gonna be able to cover that type of throwing ability of Kurt Warner with play action passes.
No, but I'll give you a name of a guy who could.
Yep.
Lawrence Timmons, second year linebacker, number six.
Number ninety-four, right?
That's right.
Now he's able to do this.
You know, Lamar Woodley, also second year linebacker, he's on the other side of Harrison rushing the the quarterback, but Timmins.
I you how come you think the Cardinals are gonna be able to complete 15 yard passes all the way down the field when no other team's been able to do it against Steelers?
Because most pe most teams don't have now you you you lack the environmental uh wacko picks for football, right?
Yeah.
You do a great job at that.
But you know I'm a man of the claw.
Right.
And a man of the clump always goes from the spiritual aspect of what's happening.
That's right.
That's right.
That's why I told you last year is nowhere in the world that Brady was going to win win because he thought he was God and asked God to get out of his seat.
You remember that?
I do remember you did and you said that right here on this program.
That's right.
So right now, the the Steelers got a real bad problem.
They got the they got the unholy trinity over there that they gotta deal with.
And the reason why they're gonna whip up on him all day down the field with play action passes, is because they got that unholy trinity.
Who's the unholy trinity?
They got Breston, they got Bolden, and they got Fitzgerald.
And they're nine and those down there and and Leo uh Linda.
Uh that is the that's a triple triangle with Larry Fitzgerald being at the apex.
Apex down there and Leo uh Randall.
It means the top.
So these three guys can't gonna put so much pressure on that secondary that if they got play action passes, Rush, they're gonna have a real bad day.
And it may be even embarrassing, as a matter of fact.
Ladies and gentlemen, I remind you, he's talking about a nine and seven football team here.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, you you want to go there?
Arizona Cardinals.
Who did the Pittsburgh Steelers beat to get to the Super Bowl in the playoffs?
An eight and eight team and another team that had already beaten twice.
Yeah, but beating it that's that's the the Baltimore Ravens, and that that was a war.
I mean, that's but and the Chargers, you're putting the Chargers down.
You played for the Chargers.
I I absolutely did, but for one season was glad to get out of there.
Well, I know what you're saying.
The Chargers were hot when they got in the playoffs uh to an extent.
You're saying the Cardinals are hot now, the nine and seven doesn't matter.
That's right.
Now they believe that they can win.
Remember, we we have talked about this before.
When you got a football team that believe they cannot lose, and a team that believe they can win, that's two different teams.
And I believe the Cardinals right now has victory in their eyes and do not believe anyone can stop them.
And Pittsburgh has as two things I haven't heard anyone mention that is going to be a big factor in this game on Sunday.
Outside of uh a Warner, 11-year veteran who knows how to release that ball quickly, and if you try to stun him, he's gonna he's gonna beat you to death.
And besides the triple threat of one thousand yard receivers, that has never been done.
Is the fact that they they got such a physical game against the Ravens.
Remember that?
Yep.
It was such a physical game, even though it's been two weeks, that is still very difficult to bounce back on.
The Cardinals did not have as a physical, a physical game as Pittsburgh did.
And number two, the Cardinals never stood on the field and watched McGahee lay there and was totally knocked out for as long as they did.
That's a psychological effect on a football player who know they're playing this last game and don't want to be hurt.
Yeah, but they've seen tape of it, and they know that the Steelers, they probably haven't played a team like the Steelers in terms of of uh those kind of hits.
I know the NFL, most teams in the NFL are really, really, really close in terms of talent and so forth.
But I mean the hitters.
But but that I you you now you they're watching tape and McGay he, or is the coach not showing it to him?
They saw it, they know what happened, they know who Ryan Clark is.
Yeah.
But it it's a total different thing, Rush.
It's one thing for me to watch you behind that golden microphone, right?
Right.
It's another thing for me to sit behind the golden microphone.
Would you agree?
Yeah, but I don't know what the the Steelers have been there.
The Steelers were there three years ago.
Yeah.
But man, you're sitting there and you watching a buddy.
I guarantee you McGay was snoring by the time he hit the ground.
You get knocked out that bad, you're snoring.
You know that, right?
Yeah.
And you're sitting there, and you saw all you saw all the guys sitting there watching.
It's just a psychological thing, man, about guys do not like to get hurt in the last game.
All right.
So let's say Ryan Clark or somebody lays out somebody on the Cardinals in the opening kickoff, like also happened in the Baltimore game.
Yeah.
And remember they're they sent three guys to the sidelines.
Only one of them, both of them, all three needed stretchers, only one of them got one, but they sent three guys.
What if that happens?
Or they got they get you you're making this sound like this is a a foregone conclusion that it's almost automatic the Cardinals are gonna win here because of these intangible factors, plus well, the tangible ones you've mentioned.
Well, I think uh I plus also I got somebody on my side that you don't.
You know that, right?
Who?
I got the greatest most powerful black woman that ever had position in the United States on my side, Condoleezza Rice.
She's a Cardinal fan.
She says, I believe Pittsburgh may do it, but on the view of all places yesterday, she says I am pulling for the Cardinals.
You are you're out there, bro.
Two black people against one white guy.
You don't have a chance.
Yeah, but I got Barack Obama, Michelle Obama on my team.
You know you're going to lose, Dan.
Yeah.
I gotta take a quick commercial timeout.
Okay, we've we've looked at the Arizona offense.
We'll ask the Hutch about the Steelers offense, and we come back right after this.
Don't go away.
We're back with Ken Hutcherson, the Hutch in Seattle talking the Super Bowl.
He just gave us an analysis of the Arizona offense that makes him sound unstoppable.
Tell us about the Steelers offense and your thoughts of an eighty-five percent Heinz Ward.
Oh my goodness.
That's a bore at that.
That's what you call a man child.
You know, if you're gonna put a team together, you'll want him on your team.
And Santonio Holmes, I mean, they're both great wide receivers, and I think that if Ben has time.
I I think the rush coming from you know the four-down linemen with uh the Cartness is gonna give uh them a little trouble.
But if he's got time, man, they're gonna eat they're gonna eat the Cartons defense up.
Now that's interesting because I I say I disagree with Coach Dungey too.
Coach Dungey said that the the Steelers defense against the Arizona offense is the um key matchup.
I think it's i I think it's the Steelers offense against the Arizona defense because you know the Steelers haven't scored 30 points very often in this in this season.
They've had a very sluggish offense.
Their running game has not been traditional Steelers big.
They haven't able to rely on it.
Uh Willie Parker's coming around.
He's done a pretty good you know, real good job for him this year, though.
Well, he's been hurt a lot.
He's hot, he's hot now.
You know, the that's why looking at regular season statistics doesn't really tell much about this game.
Right.
Um Ward, uh I don't know if you've ever had him sprained ACL or MCO, whatever he's got.
Yeah.
Two weeks to heal, a knee brace.
Uh can he really be a factor?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, you know, uh it's according to what they did and how they let it rest, and uh if they didn't shoot it up too much, yeah, that's that's right.
That's the old pain-killing injection.
Yeah, I mean, so I I think that if he we're gonna know the first uh couple of series on what he's gonna be like, bruh.
And if he comes back out full speed, uh it was like uh T.O. several years ago.
Remember when he got hurt?
And that boy came back after uh a couple of weeks' rest, and he just ate up the field.
So if Hines can do that, it'll make it a very interesting game.
And it's fascinating too, because T.O. did not throw up during the last drive.
That's right.
Of the uh Eagles versus uh who was the Eagles played.
Normally you remember who wins Super Bowls, but I can't remember Yeah.
Um It was the Patriots.
It was the Tomlin, Mike Tomlin versus Wiz and Hunt.
All this talk about Wizen Hunt knows Rathless Burger because he was the offensive coordinator.
The Arizona head coach Tomlin in his second year.
What's a coaching factor here?
Well, I think that you gotta you got a great factor any time that you know what the other team can do and will do.
Uh I think that the Cardinals got a little better advantage on knowing what the uh Pittsburgh Steelers can do than the Pittsburgh coach, of course, knowing what and he's in the Pittsburgh coach, you know he's a young, he's he's a young coach.
Uh I think that's gonna be some pressure on him going into this.
Uh but uh Bruh is it's wide open if you could keep these guys healthy.
I think Ben uh is gonna be the issue.
I think you and Pettis.
What's it Pettister said you think that it's gonna be offense from Pittsburgh and the defense from the Cartners is gonna be the big issue.
Yeah, Bettis thinks that too.
He thinks the game's gonna come down to whether uh Arizona can stop.
So here's the prevailing opinion I get that if Arizona can stop Pittsburgh uh on offense, that eventually the Pittsburgh defense is gonna have to give because of those three wide receivers you're talking about.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I you know, I don't know.
I I I don't think that's the conventional wisdom.
But I think the conventional wisdom is that people gotta look at this game is regardless what the Pittsburgh offense does, if the defense can hold them, uh the Connors defense can hold them to one to two touchdowns per half.
It is nowhere in the world they're gonna win this game.
No way.
You you're not gonna stop those wide receivers.
Look what happened against Philadelphia, Rush.
Uh Fitzgerald had three touchdowns the first half and he quit throwing to him.
They didn't throw to him until the last drive of the fourth quarter.
That's stupid is what stupid does.
So i it it the conventional wisdom is you better stop the Trinity over there and and and and hope that the defense Trump Pittsburgh can shore can score.
Hutch, with all due respect, go ahead.
You are equating the number one defense in the National Football League with the Philadelphia Eagles defense.
Now the Philadelphia Eagles defense, they get hyped up by all these TV guys, but it's not even in the same league as the Steelers.
They're not the hitters.
I I agree.
They are not the hitters, they're not the players.
But the people, those three receivers with Kurt Warner, is the same regardless of who they're playing.
All right.
All right.
Look, I got another break.
We're going to come back.
Final breakdown special teams, turnovers.
Those are the intangibles that you cannot predict against.
That's right.
Never get your thoughts on that anyway.
And uh ultimately who's going to win right after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, we are back with the Hutch on the phone with us from Seattle.
Hutch, you know, I I uh each time I, you know, every day I learn more.
I become more observant.
Uh my my memory seems to be get uh get better, become more mature about things.
Uh even with my fandom and love for football.
One thing that I was thinking about this last night and prep preparing to talk to you.
It seems like one of the things that that that always happens is unexpected.
There's there's a like I remember uh the uh Redskins against the Broncos one year, a running back that had two yards all season, Timmy Smith was the MVP or came close to Doug Williams.
Uh I'm looking at something like that because these teams have had a season full of tape to look at each other on.
Yeah.
And you would like if surprise I wouldn't be surprised now because I've been looking for the unexpected.
Number 14 for the Steelers, Lima Swede, a second year, maybe he's a first year receiver.
He's had the hands of Dr. Noel.
Oh, he can't catch anything.
He has dropped practically everything.
I wouldn't be surprised since I'm looking at things this way, if with Ward being not a hundred percent uh and looking to looking for these the Steelers to surprise Wizenhunt if Lima Swedes given a chance tomorrow to be a game breaker.
You know, and it's any given Sunday, right, bro?
Yeah.
Any given Sunday.
Uh I just think it'd be too much fresh on on Swede.
Uh I could be absolutely wrong, but uh he could be a game breaker.
I think the the game breaker's gonna be the specialty teams.
And I think that um you know you just see that in Super Bowl, especially if it's tight rush, it's gonna come down to the specialty teams.
Uh and I hate to admit it, but I think the Cardinals got a little bit better advantage in the specialty teams because they are they they got they they just got a a better round of talent there.
Um and very few people know that the holders uh for extra points and for field goals uh is is a very important person on on specialty teams because he's gonna he's gonna dictate what's gonna happen.
This is a first.
Yeah, it is.
You have broken new ground.
We're talking the Super Bowl, and you are saying the game may hinge on holders.
Well, uh I think it no, not the holders.
I can't wait to call ESPN on this.
One holder, and that is the Steelers are the only ones that has uh uh their holder basically do other things that can get hurt, and that is he's the Pittsburgh's holder is the is the partner, Mitch Berger.
If he if something happens to him, we got we they got a bad case uh of what's gonna happen with field goals and extra punches.
And you know how many games have been won with field goals.
They got they've got a backup, they got a backup holder.
We better get ready to use him because you know who it is?
No.
Heinz Ward.
You can't.
So you may have a point.
Well, we better pray to Heinz stay healthy, my brother.
All right, now you're making it sound here like these teams are pretty equal.
No, I'm not.
On paper, I think the Steelers mopped the floor with these guys, but everybody's enamored of Kurt Warner and these three receivers, but really Warner, he's he's really apparently I've never met him, but apparently everybody that has says he's just one of the greatest guys you can ever meet.
And there's a lot of of uh well, shall we say hope.
Yeah that he's able to redeem himself from his last Super Bowl loss with the Rams against the uh against Patriots.
So what you what what do you think?
How is it gonna end?
Well, I think the Cardinals gonna end, and if they do not have a lull, like uh Kurt Warner always does.
You remember he did that big old low with uh when he won uh won the Super Bowl with Tennessee.
You Remember that?
Yeah.
That the the third quarter and the first or the fourth quarter, like sometimes he just dies.
I don't know, his brain goes to sleep or something.
And then the same thing happened with Philadelphia.
So if there's not a lull, it won't be close.
Uh uh, but I think that uh Cardinals gonna pull it out by uh probably ten points.
Are they ten points?
They're gonna cover spreads depending on where you look, six to seven.
So the Cardinals cover from the Hutch.
I do.
Well, I'm gonna tell you what I think, my brother.
Sure.
I think blowout 34 to 10 Steelers.
Woo!
And I'll tell you what, I think it's the job of the NFL and the writers to hype every Super Bowl game for audience to make sure that each team is portrayed as having a legitimate shot.
We are talking.
You know, and I love Arizona.
Don't misunderstand John McCain lives there, but I still love Arizona.
We're talking about a team that has never been there.
This I I don't see this seven, ten point victory by the Arizona Cardinals over a legendary National Football League franchise.
Yeah, but you know.
I mean, they're not the Jets with Joe Name here.
Yeah, but you got you got one problem, Rush, that always happens when it comes to football.
You always allow your emotions to get in the way of the facts.
And you got a you got the captain, 11 year veteran, Kurt Warner, who's been there not once, twice, but this is his third time.
So don't don't count that out with the with with the strike team he has.
I uh bruh, it could be more than 10 points.
All right, well, we will see.
Where are you watching the game?
I am gonna be at home so I can go to the bathroom when I want to.
Well, another.
Hutch, I love you, my brother.
I really love you, man.
I look forward to this every year, and uh we're gonna have to open this up and start talking about issues.
You people don't know, but the Hutch, I should tell you uh is one of the cultural leaders.
You talk about somebody taking arrows.
This guy is taking on the militant homosexual uh lobby and movement uh in and the same-sex marriage.
You're you're you really are in in with no exaggeration, you're doing the Lord's work in every possible way that you could.
Thanks, bro.
And uh you television shows have asked you on as a guest and so forth.
So it's it's thrill for me to know you.
We're the pleasure's mine, and uh hey, let's get together and do some talking because we can have some fun.
Yeah, I don't know if you heard yet.
The uh the uh uh the Republican leadership did not pick a leader.
They did not have enough votes to pick a leader.
Why does that not surprise me?
Uh you know, leadership.
The only only men that I know is good enough to lead the Republican Party right now is Ann Coulter and uh Sarah Palin.
Right on.
Well, I'll tell you what, they can both have it.
And maybe you and I maybe you and I should lead it, then we'll get something done.
I'm busy.
All right, my brother, have a great day.
All right.
I'll be thinking of you on Sunday night watching the game.
I'm definitely gonna be thinking of you.
34-10, you think 10 points Arizona.
Yes.
And I know you're thinking the Steelers can't score 30 points on them.
I know that's what you're thinking.
Their offense can't score 30 points.
If they can score 30 points on the San Diego Chargers, they can do it on the Arizona Cardinals.
I don't think so.
I tell you right now, the two cornerbacks, Taylor and Townsend, they're already taking value trying to keep to get calmed down knowing who they're gonna face.
He's tweaking me, folks.
He's he's talking about the number one defense in the National Football League taking value because they're afraid of the Arizona Cardinals.
If there's a fear factor in this game, it is the Arizona Cardinals facing those missiles on defense that are the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Hutch.
Thanks again.
I appreciate it.
Folks, I got a brief time out here, but first, Dawn told me.
Well, Dawn tells me a lot of things, but she told me a fascinating story today.
In fact, Wendy, her friend Wendy, who sometimes sits in for Dawn when Dawn can't be here.
Dawn, court reporter, stenographer, transcribes people on the phone so I can read what they're saying if I can't understand it.
She went to her mailbox and opened the mailbox, get her mail, and her 1099 from her employer was in there opened.
Somebody opened her 1099 and got her social security number, her employer ID number, whatever, whatever's on the 1099, uh they got.
She is a life lock member.
Wendy.
So she called him up.
First thing that when she got in the house and uh and and said uh uh please put a fraud alert on my social security number in my accounts.
They said, Do you want us to call the police?
Wendy said, No, no, no, no, I'll I'll do that myself.
I had not heard of this before.
I'd not I'm sure it's happened, but I had not heard of somebody going into your mailbox opening a ten ninety-nine or something else and getting your social security number.
But she doesn't have a thing to worry about because she has signed up at LifeLock.
1800 Life Locker, Lifelock.com.
It's not expensive.
In fact, it's very economical.
You do not want to go to the hassle of losing your identity.
And this is a great illustration of how the thugs and the frauds are out trying to exploit, especially in these economic times, getting somebody else's credit card you can start charging things to, creating a new identity for yourself when nobody has any money out there.
Uh use offer code rush, either when you call them 1800 Life Lock or Lifelock.com, and don't let your identity get stolen by somebody else of your mailbox.
Love this song.
One of the first songs I ever played is a struggling young disc jockey and star of the future.
Uh thank the Lord for the night time.
Neil Diamond, here is.
I thought we were going to Pensacola, Florida.
What happened there?
Did she did she did she go to Pensacola, Florida?
Because I I had a plan here.
Carol and thank you.
Uh Carol in Pensacola, Florida.
I'm glad you called.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, Rush, this is the thrill of my life.
I cannot believe I got through.
I understand.
I tried calling you two weeks ago.
I envied you so much going back to my home to see that playoff game.
You have no idea.
I can't believe our stealers.
Are you going to the game?
I wish.
I haven't worked for a year, Rush.
I'd give my right arm my son and I, but we'll be d I'll be down at his house.
Uh we we aren't gonna make it.
But always a Pittsburgh.
I remember when you were the struggling disc jockey.
You lived there when I was I'm the same age as you, Rush.
Well, you know, I wish I had known this.
I have I I I purchased a uh uh a box, a suite at the uh at the Super Bowl, and it's got thirty-two seats in it, and it I'm using it to uh to host my clients.
Oh, uh the like advertiser, the carbonite guys are gonna be in the Zycam guys, the life lock people, a whole bunch.
They're gonna be in there, and uh I'm I am going over tonight to host them in a uh dinner, and I've got some players and sports guys coming by to talk to them.
But I had some seats left.
I if I hadn't known that, I would have put you in there.
Oh my goodness.
Oh, I can't.
But there was no way of knowing.
You should have if you uh it's I'm this is you haven't oh you haven't you haven't worked in a year and you looking, struggling looking for a job.
Things are slow here in Pensacola.
Uh I have a granddaughter here, that's why I'm here.
That's why we moved on here originally, but you know, what are you gonna do?
But my Steelers are just um Pittsburgh, once it's in your heart and you live there, it never goes away.
I mean, I was like Tony Dungey, Coach Dungey, who just retired from the Indianapolis Colts said once he played for the Steelers under Chuck's.
Oh, I know.
Once a stealer, always a stealer.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
It's it never leaves you.
My whole house here is black and gold.
I have terrible towels hanging in my windows.
There are people driving up just to see me.
But uh I am thrilled about that, and they are gonna win it.
And Hutch sounds like the one most wonderful guy, but I gotta tell you, he's wrong.
He is way wrong on this game.
He is a great guy, loves to tweak me.
Yeah, I'll be fine.
That's part of the reason he's picking the Cardinals.
I don't believe Hutch believes half of what he said.
But I also have to tell you, Rosh, what you're doing for us conservatives.
I I can't tell you enough.
I just Well, that's very nice.
I look I I appreciate that, and I really do wish you the best.
Oh, I I do.
Like I said, you're the one person.
If I ever had the chance to sit down and spend an evening with a person, it would be you because I could talk to you about so many different things.
But you are you're doing a great job and keep it up.
That's all I can say.
And enjoy the game, because we will be enjoying it here in Pensacola, too.
Let it lift you up.
I will.
I will.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
I have just I have a I have a there's somebody I I can get you tickets to the game if you want to go.
Oh Katie, how many?
Give me a flash room.
How many do you need?
To go to the game.
To go to the game.
Probably just two, me and my son, because there's my husband and my granddaughter and his wife, so I would never even think to ask for five.
I mean, yeah, five.
You never think.
Five is what you would need, but you would take two.
No, two, my son and I. If I could take him, that he would just love it.
But I I don't know if we could afford to get there either from here, you know, to find out.
Well, we'll handle that.
We'll handle that.
Don't sweat that.
Pensacola's not that far from Tampa.
No, it isn't.
We'll we'll we'll handle that.
Uh I'll tell you what, I'm making no guarantees here, but I've I've got a note here that says we can get you some tickets.
I just don't know how many.
So let me let me uh hang up.
Uh you you stay on hold, and Mr. Snerdley will get information from you so that we can get back to you in case this works out.
Uh I don't even well, I I don't know what to say.
Well, you don't just anything.
You just have to you just have to enjoy yourself if we can make this happen.
Even just you trying.
You don't know what that means.
Well Thank you, sir.
I hope I hope the efforts uh uh oh, by the way, I've just learned something else here, Carol.
We also have a hotel room for you if you want to use it and come down Saturday the night before.
So we can get you some tickets.
I don't know how many yet.
Somebody will be in touch with you.
We get you a hotel room, and we'll find a way to get you down there.
But I gotta run here.
I want you to stay on hold.
Mr. Snerdley will get the information from you that I need to get back to you, okay?
Thank you, Rush.
That's all I can do.
No, you're more than welcome.
Well, Steelers fan, you deserve to be there.
I do need to get a terrible towel.
You need to join all your brethren and your sister that are going to be there and have a uh you know, a bang up good time.
I just hope someday I have the chance to meet you because you are wonderful.
Well, thank you very much.
That's all you do.
I appreciate thank you so much.
Okay.
Don't hang up.
I will keep keep her on hold.
I'm not kidding.
You know, we're we're putting these uh uh we've got this sweet.
I wish I had room in there, but I don't, it's all it's all filled.
I would not I would not have been here this week were it not for Zycam.
I kid you not.
I've had I had a cold last week that it arrested.
I would not have been there.
And of course, uh the uh there that those guys are gonna be watching and the carbonite people, the people that will you know, enable you to back up your computer hard drive.
And I got an email from a guy who by the way he went out and just did it on a whim, went out and backed up his computer on a whim, and took it is all of a sudden his computer died, took it in to have it repaired.
They had to wipe the hard drive, and he had forgotten that he had backed up to carbonate, because it happens in the background.
You don't even know it.
Then he remembered it, and uh he was just ecstatic.
So oh, it looks like we've got uh we're gonna make it happen.
Only two tickets.
Only two tickets teller, only two tickets.
We'll find a way to get gasoline a hotel.
We're gonna fix this up for for uh Carol and Pensacola.
Be right back after this.
Stay with us.
We had one lingering call here.
How did World War II end the depression?
Very simple.
It got the economy going.
We took unemployment from 23% down to two percent.
We had to build airplanes, you had to make bombs.
Rosie the Ribeter, everybody was working to build material to win the war.
The government wasn't spending money with stimulus waste, people were working.
Vacation next week, back sometime.
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