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Rush Squintball, 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, a man of God with his own church and flock in Seattle, Washington, a former player for the NFL.
He played the Tuto 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 you doing, Rush?
I could not be better since you were here, sir.
Oh, I tell you, man, it's going to be a great Sunday.
Yeah, and I know we want to discuss this.
You know, last time we, well, in 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.
And how do you see this shaping up?
Well, 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 friends putting all these accolades on you, but brother, I'm going to tell you right off the bat, I am so proud of you taking all these hits.
There's not very many people out there that are standing up.
And when they attack you, Rush, they attack me.
They attack every EIB listener that is out there.
They attack every conservative.
And this president, when he said what he said about you, didn't know that he was not just attacking you.
He is attacking the idiot.
He's attacking every conservative and telling Congress not to listen to us.
So this president shows so little class.
I haven't seen a president with such little class since LBJ picked this dog up by the ears.
Well, that's.
Interesting you use ears.
Thank you very much, my brother.
I really appreciate you saying that.
The North Carolina Mittress sent me a note saying, I don't know how you're putting up with this.
I don't know.
She said, I would have been reduced to muddle after a day or two of this.
I said, well, it's been 20 years.
To me, I've had to take this kind of stuff as a sign of success.
I'm actually enjoying it because of the opportunity it presents.
But I appreciate your kind words.
I really do.
You bet.
And just let everybody know out there.
I just want to tell everyone that we ought to thank God for this man and that 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, let's go through the conventional wisdom.
You heard me talk with Coach Dungie yesterday.
Absolutely.
And I asked him, the conventional wisdom here is that this game is going to be the Steelers defense against Cardinals offense.
And Larry Fitzgerald is superhuman.
This guy is on a roar.
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, Palomalu.
He said, man, I just don't know what to do with him.
This guy is just out there somewhere.
And I think that Coach's statement really surprised me yesterday when you asked him about Laris Fitzgerald.
And I was just amazed that he would say that the Steelers are going to try to get someone else to hurt him instead of him.
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, there's a lot of hype here.
I know Palomalu said it, but James Harrison, who is the Steelers sack leader, also said this week that the game plan has him dropping into coverage, that he's not going to be rushing, and he's very upset with the game plan.
He doesn't like it, but he can't change it.
Well, now.
Well, you know, the only thing that's going to be.
We know that's not true.
Why would he say that?
Why would he tell the truth to the Cardinals?
There's little mind games going on.
I think, just like Palomalu playing mind games with Fitzgerald, but I don't care about the players.
It's the consensus of the media, all these great analysts, is that Fitzgerald can't be stopped.
He's like, there's never been a receiver like him.
And I, you know, I just resist the tug of popular sentiment on this.
Well, what are you going to do with him?
What is the Steelers going to do with the guy?
I'm asking you, if you was the coach, what would you do with him besides send 10 of your 11 guys to make sure they sack Warner before he's able to throw it?
That's about the only way you're going to 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 has the quick release, you get a three-step timing, he's going to get rid of the ball.
You're going to have not enough people in the secondary to handle the Fitzgeralds and the Breesons.
I mean, you got three guys there.
They've got Bolden, they've got Brieston, and they've 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 is he getting his football information from?
You better not give Kurt Buddhist.
I'm just telling you what Sapp said.
And by the way, if you look at the Steelers, when Rothlessberger scrambles, every play's backyard football.
Most of the Steelers' big plays this year are not executed as drawn up.
And the defense gets all whacked out because when he starts scrambling, escapes, sacks, those receivers start improvising.
Nobody knows where they're going to be except Rothlessberger watching them.
That's something that actually troubles me.
I'd rather see the offensive plays executed to a T.
But basically, Sapp was saying what Rothlessberger is able to exploit, Warner isn't.
Well, that's because if Ben has a lot of time, he's not scrambling, right?
He's sitting in the background.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
That's true.
I mean, if he has a lot of time and they only send three guys up front, that 3-4.
See, the biggest problem with the 3-4 with Kurt Warner is that even if they send a stunt at him, he's going to sit back there, play action pass, and hit 15-yard passes all day long because those four linebackers are not going to be able to get back there.
They can drop Harrison back all they want, but he's not going to 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.
Yo.
Lawrence Timmons, second-year linebacker, number 75.
70s.
Number 94, right?
That is 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 quarterback.
How come you think the Cardinals are going to 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 teams don't have...
Now, you lack the environmental wacko picks for football, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You do a great job at that.
But you know, I'm a man of the clock.
Right.
And a man of the clock always goes from the spiritual aspect of what's happening.
That's right.
That's right.
That's why I told you last year, it's nowhere in the world that Brady was going to win because he thought he was God and asked God to get out of his seat.
You remember that?
I do remember.
And you said that right here on this program.
That's right.
So right now, the Steelers got a real bad problem.
They got the unholy trinity over there that they got to deal with.
And the reason why they're going to whip up on them 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 therefore those down there and Leo Linda, that's a triple triangle with Larry Fitzgerald being at the Apex.
Apex down there, Leo Rendell, it means the top.
So these three guys are going to put so much pressure on that secondary that if they got play action passes, Rush, they're going to 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 9-7 football team here.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
You want to go there?
Arizona Cardinals.
Who did the Pittsburgh Steelers beat to get to the Super Bowl in the playoffs?
An 8-8 team and another team that had already beaten twice.
Yeah, but that's the Baltimore Ravens, and that was a war.
I mean, that's – but then the Chargers, you're putting the Chargers down?
You played for the Chargers.
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 to an extent.
You're saying the Cardinals are hot.
Now the 9-7 doesn't matter.
That's right.
Now they believe that they can win.
Remember, we have talked about this before.
When you've 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, it's two things I haven't heard anyone mention that is going to be a big factor in this game on Sunday outside a Warner, 11-year veteran, who knows how to release that ball quickly.
And if you try to stun him, he's going to beat you to death.
And besides, the triple threat of 1,000-yard receiver.
That has never been done.
Is the fact that 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 game as Pittsburgh did.
And number two, the Cardinals never stood on the field and watched McGay lay there and was totally knocked out for as long as they did.
That's a psychological effect on a football player who knows 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 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 now they're watching Tape and McGay or is the coach not showing it to them?
They saw it.
They know what happened.
They know who Ryan Clark is.
But it's a total different thing, Rush.
It's one thing for me to watch you behind that golden microphone, right?
It's another thing for me to sit behind the Golden Microphone.
Would you agree?
Yeah, but I don't know what the Steelers have been there.
The Stevers were there three years ago.
Yeah, but, man, you're sitting there and you're watching a buddy.
I guarantee you, McGay, he 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 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 in the Cardinals in the opening kickoff, like also happened in the Baltimore game.
Yeah.
And remember, they sent three guys to the sidelines.
Only one of both of them, all three needed stretchers.
Only one of them got one, but they sent three guys.
What if that happens?
You're making this sound like this is a foregone conclusion that it's almost automatic the Cardinals are going to win here because of these intangible factors.
Plus, well, the tangible ones you've mentioned.
Well, I think, 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, Condalisa 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 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 then.
I got to take a quick commercial timeout.
Okay, 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.
It makes him sound unstoppable.
Tell us about the Steelers' offense and your thoughts about 85% Heinz Ward.
Oh, my goodness.
That's a bore right there.
That's what you call a man child.
You know, if you're going to put the team together, you'll want him on your team.
And San Antonio Holmes, I mean, they're both great wide receivers.
And I think that Ben has time.
I think the rush coming from the four-down lineman with the Cardinals is going to give them a little trouble.
But if he's got time, man, they're going to eat the Cardinals' defense up.
Now, that's interesting.
I disagree with Coach Dungy, too.
Coach Dungy said that the Steelers' defense against the Arizona offense is the key matchup.
I think it's the Steelers' offense against the Arizona defense because the Steelers haven't scored 30 points very often in this season.
They've had a very sluggish offense.
Their running game has not been traditional Steelers big.
They haven't been able to rely on it.
Willie Parker's coming around.
He's doing a real good job for him this year, though.
Well, he's been hurt a lot.
He's hot now.
That's why looking at regular season statistics doesn't really tell much about this game.
Ward, I don't know if you've ever had sprained ACL or MCL, whatever he's got.
Two weeks to heal, a knee brace.
Can he really be a factor?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, you know, it's according to what they did, how they let it rest, and if they didn't shoot it up too much.
That's right.
The old painkilling injection.
Yeah, I mean, so I think that if he we're going to know the first couple of series on what he's going to be like, bro.
And if he comes back out full speed, it was like T.O. several years ago.
Remember when he got hurt?
And that boy came back after a couple of weeks' rest, and he just ate up the feel.
So if Heinz can do that, he'll make it a very interesting game.
And it's fascinating, too, because T.O. did not throw up during the last drive of the Eagles versus who else the Eagles played.
Normally, you remember he didn't win Super Bowls, but I can't remember.
Yeah.
It was the Patriots.
Tomlin, Mike Tomlin versus Wizenhunt.
All this talk about Wizenhunt knows Rothlessberger because he was the offensive coordinator.
Wiz and Hunt's got trick plays.
Wizenhunt knows these guys left and right, the Arizona head coach Tomlin in his second year.
What's a coaching factor here?
Well, I think that you've got a great factor anytime that you know what the other team can do and will do.
I think that the Cardinals got a little better advantage on knowing what the Pittsburgh Steelers can do than the Pittsburgh coach, of course, knowing what.
And the Pittsburgh coach, he's young.
He's a young coach.
I think there's going to be some pressure on him going into this.
But it's wide open if you can keep these guys healthy.
I think Ben is going to be the issue.
I think you and Pettis, was it Pettis that said you think that it's going to be offense from Pittsburgh and the defense from the Cartners is going to be the big issue?
Yeah, Bettis thinks that too.
He thinks the game is going to come down to whether Arizona can stop.
So here's the prevailing opinion I get, that if Arizona can stop Pittsburgh on offense, that eventually the Pittsburgh defense is going to have to give because of those three wide receivers you're talking about.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I don't know.
I don't think that's the conventional wisdom.
What I think the conventional wisdom is that people got to look at this game is regardless what the Pittsburgh offense does, if the defense can hold them, the Cartners defense can hold them to one to two touchdowns per half, it is nowhere in the world they're going to win this game.
No way.
Because you're not going to stop those wide receivers.
Look what happened against Philadelphia, Rush.
Fitzgerald had three touchdowns the first half, and they quit throwing to him.
They didn't throw to him until the last drive of the fourth quarter.
That stupid is what stupid does.
So the conventional wisdom is you better stop the Trinity over there and hope that the defense from Pittsburgh can score.
Hutch, with all due respect, you are equating the number one defense in the National Football League with the Philadelphia Eagles defense.
Now, that 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 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 to get to.
That's right.
Never get your thoughts on that anyway.
And 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, each time I, you know, every day I learn more.
I become more observant.
My memory seems to get better, become more mature about things.
Even with my fandom and love for football, one thing that I was thinking about this last night and preparing to talk to you, it seems like one of the things that always happens is unexpected.
I remember the 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.
I'm looking at something like that because these teams have had a season full of tape to look at each other on.
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 is Lima Swede, a second-year, maybe he's a first-year receiver.
He's had the hands of Dr. Noll.
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 100% and looking for the Steelers to surprise Wisenhunt, if Lima Swede's given a chance tomorrow to be a game breaker.
You know, it's any given Sunday, right, bro?
Yeah.
Any given Sunday.
I just think it'd be too much fresh on Swede.
I could be absolutely wrong, but he could be a game breaker.
I think the game breaker is going to be the specialty teams.
And I think that, you know, you just see that in Super Bowl, especially if it's tight, Rush, it's going to come down to the specialty teams.
And I hate to admit it, but I think the Cardinals got a little bit better advantage in the specialty teams because they just got a better round of talent there.
And very few people know that the holders for extra points and for field goals is a very important person on the specialty teams.
Now, this is a first.
He's going to dictate what's going to 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, I think, 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, their holder basically do other things that can get hurt, and that is Pittsburgh's holder is the pawner, Mitch Berger.
If something happens to him, they got a bad case of what's going to happen with field goals and extra points.
You know how many games have been won with field goals.
They've got a backup holder.
We better get ready to use him.
You know who it is?
No.
You know who it is?
No.
Heinz Ward.
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 mop the floor with these guys, but everybody's enamored of Kurt Warner and these three receivers.
But really, Warner, he's really, apparently, I've never met him, but apparently everybody that has says he's just one of the greatest guys you could ever meet.
And there's a lot of, well, shall we say, hope that he's able to redeem himself from his last Super Bowl loss with the Rams against Patriots.
So what do you think?
How is it going to end?
Well, I think the Cardinals are going to end.
And if they do not have a lull, like Kurt Warner always does.
Remember, he did that big old lull when he won the Super Bowl with Tennessee.
Remember that?
Yeah.
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.
But I think that Cardinals are going to pull it out.
Are they going to?
Probably 10 points.
10 points are going to cover spreads, depending on where you look, 6 to 7.
So the Cardinals cover from the hutch.
I do.
Well, I'm going to 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.
I don't see this 7-10-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 Namath here.
Yeah, but you got one problem, brush, that always happens when it comes to football.
You always allow your emotions to get in the way of the facts.
And 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 count that out with the strike team he has.
Bruh, it could be more than 10 points.
All right.
Well, we will see.
Where are you watching the game?
I am going to be at home so I can go to the bathroom when I want to.
Hutch, I love you, my brother.
I really love you.
I love you, man.
I look forward to this every year.
And we're going to have to open this up and start talking about issues.
People don't know, but the Hutch, I should tell you, is one of the cultural leaders.
You talk about somebody taking arrows.
This guy is taking on the militant homosexual lobbying movement and the same-sex marriage.
You really are, with no exaggeration, you're doing the Lord's work in every possible way that you could.
Thanks, bro.
And television shows have asked you on as a guest and so forth.
So it's thrill for me to know you.
God, the pleasure's mine.
And 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 Republican leadership did not pick a leader.
They did not have enough votes to pick a leader.
Why does that not surprise me?
No leadership.
The only men that I know that's good enough to lead the Republican Party right now is Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin.
Right on.
Well, I'll tell you what, they can both have it.
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 going to 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.
You're thinking about Ron Wixon.
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 get calmed down, knowing who they're going to face.
He's tweaking me, folks.
He's talking about the number one defense in the National Football League taking volume 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've 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 who 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, they got.
She is a lifelock member, Wendy.
So she called him up.
First thing when she got in the house and said, 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 do that myself.
I had not heard of this before.
I'm sure it's happened, but I had not heard of somebody going into your mailbox, opening a 1099 or something else, and getting your social security number.
But she doesn't have a thing to worry about because she has signed up with Life Lock.
1-800-LifeLock or 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.
Use offer code Rush either when you call them, 1-800-LifeLock or LifeLock.com, and don't let your identity get stolen by somebody else.
Your mailbox love this song.
One of the first songs I ever played as a struggling young disc jockey, head and star of the future.
Thank the Lord for the nighttime.
Neil Diamond, here is: I thought we were going to Pensacola, Florida.
What happened there?
Did she guys go to Pensacola, Florida?
Because I had a plan here.
Carolyn, thank you.
Carolyn, 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 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 Steelers.
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 I'll be down at his house.
We aren't going to make it.
But always a Pittsburgher.
I remember when you were the struggling disc jockey.
You lived there when I was.
Did you?
I'm the same age as you, Rush.
Well, you know, I wish I had known this.
I have, I purchased a box, a suite at the Super Bowl, and it's got 32 seats in it.
And I'm using it to host my clients.
Oh, I'm not sure.
The advertisers, the Carbonite guys are going to be, the Zycam guys, the Life Lock people, a whole bunch.
They're going to be in there.
And I am going over tonight to host them in a dinner.
And I've got some players and sports guys coming by to talk to them.
But I had some seats left.
If I had 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.
Oh, you haven't worked in a year.
Looking, struggling, looking for a job.
Things are slow here in Pensacola.
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 going to do?
But my Steelers are just Pittsburgh, once it's in your heart and you live there, it never goes away.
I mean, I was like Tony Dungy, Coach Dungy, who just retired from the Indianapolis Colts, said he played for the Steelers in the Chuck City.
Oh, I know.
Once a Steeler, always a Steeler.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
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 I am thrilled about that, and they are going to win it.
And Hutch sounds like the most wonderful guy, but I got to tell you, he's wrong.
He is way wrong on this game.
He is a great guy.
He loves to tweak me.
Yeah, 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, Rush, what you're doing for us conservatives, I can't tell you enough.
I just.
Well, that's very nice.
Look, I appreciate that.
And I really do wish you the best.
Oh, I know.
I know you.
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.
I have just somebody.
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 two.
Five is what you would need, but you would take two.
No, two, my son and I. If I could take him, he would just love it.
But I don't know if we could afford to get there either from here, you know, to find out.
No, we'll handle that.
We'll handle that.
Don't sweat that.
Pensacola is not that far from Tampa.
No, it isn't.
We'll handle that.
I'll tell you what, I'm making no guarantees here, but I've got a note here that says we can get you some tickets.
I just don't know how many.
So let me hang up.
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.
I don't even, well, I don't know what to say.
Well, you know, just anything.
You just have to enjoy yourself if we can make this happen.
Even just you trying.
You don't know what that means.
Well, I hope the efforts.
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 your hotel room, and we'll find a way to get you down there.
But I got to 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.
Steelers fan, you deserve to be there.
You 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 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 it.
Thank you so much.
Okay.
Don't hang up.
Keep her on hold.
I'm not kidding.
You know, we're putting these, we've got this suite.
I wish I had room in there, but I don't.
It's all filled.
I would not have been here this week were it not for Zycam.
I kid you not.
I had a cold last week that it arrested.
I would not have been there.
And of course, those guys are going to be watching and the carbonite people, the people that will 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.
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 he was just ecstatic.
So, oh, it looks like we've got.
We're going to make it happen.
Only two tickets.
Only two tickets, Teller, only two tickets.
We'll find a way to get gasoline in a hotel.
We're going to fix this up for 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 2%.
We had to build airplanes.
We had to make bombs.
Rosie the Riveter.
Everybody was working to build material to win the war.
The government wasn't spending money with stimulus waste.