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Jan. 7, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 7, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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You know, Mike, I'm looking at this soundbite roster.
Let me move on.
Let's uh let's pick it up at number 11 when we get back to the sound bites.
And uh keep keep number 30.
In fact, we'll do number 30 here right away.
It's Friday, folks.
Let's keep uh rolling on.
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One more thing on this, two more things in this in-life business.
First, I want to I want you to re-hear the Obama soundbite, June 24th of 2009.
ABC News.
Prime time questions for the president.
Prescription for America.
This is during the thrust, if you will of the health care debate, an audience member Jane Sturm, the hand-picked audience, by the way.
Jane Sturm stood up.
She said, My mother is now over 105.
But at 100, when she was a hundred years old, the doctor said to her, I can't do anything more unless you have a pacemaker.
I said, Well, go for it.
And my 100-year-old mother said, go for it.
But the special, and maybe she's telling Obama this.
Specialist said no, she's too old to have a pacemaker.
But when another specialist saw her, saw her joy of life, and so on, he said, I'm going for it.
That was over five years ago.
Outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody who's elderly, is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, a quality of life, or is it just a medical cutoff at a certain age?
Now, before we get to Obama's answer, I have to tell you, as an American, the fact that that question was being asked in my country in 2009 sent chills down my back.
Here's an American citizen asking the president if if if her mother could get a pacemaker.
She's got it, she's we're certain circumstances here where this woman has to go to the government, in this case the top dog, and and and get permission for a pacemaker.
Will Medicare, Medicaid pay for this?
Stop and think about that.
I mean, you expect that to happen in Cuba or with the Chicoms of something, but it's a television show featuring the great unifying Barack Obama is this woman.
Are you gonna let my mother live?
I the I don't know about you folks.
The last thing I ever thought when I'm growing up, there are a number of things I thought never would happen to me.
One of them is having to ask a government official for permission for any kind of medical procedure, or further to ask a government official if I could get a medical procedure.
I just never computed here.
This woman's you know, my my my mother, she got it, she was fine, the specialist wouldn't give it to her, but they took her will to live into account.
One specialist did, saw her spirit and love for life.
Would you, Mr. President, factor that in when you decide who gets to live and die?
I don't think that we can make judgments based on people's spirit.
Uh that'd be uh a pretty subjective decision to be making.
I think we have to have rules that uh uh say that we are gonna provide good quality care for all people.
End of life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we're gonna have to make.
But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another.
If they're not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they're being made by private insurers.
At least we can let doctors know, and your mom know that you know what?
Maybe this isn't gonna help.
Maybe you're better off uh not having the surgery, but taking uh the painkiller.
So on national TV, the president of the United States told this woman essentially no, your mother's will to live.
We're not gonna factor that in.
We can't make judgments based on that.
Too subjective.
Um take the pill.
Take the painkiller.
Take the painkiller instead of getting a pacemaker.
So that's why death panels, into life counseling.
I mean, we know what this guy thinks.
Look, folks, we also understand this.
The government's in charge of paying for all these people's health care.
Uh we know they don't have the money.
We know they're gonna have to ration.
We know how they're gonna ration.
They're gonna make you talk about subjective judgments.
The judgment's gonna be who is most worthwhile for us to invest the medical cost in.
Somebody's gonna die next year, or somebody's gonna take another 50 or 60 years to die.
I that's sadly what we've come to.
I'll tell you something else about this.
The real scary thing about death panels, I've I've had end of life discussions with um family planning financial experts, uh, lawyers and members of the family.
But I've yet to have one with a doctor.
The documents that I'm preparing with all these other people tell a doctor what to do.
I don't need the negotiation with the doctor.
He's leaving him out of it.
You see, the scary thing about death panels is leaving the authority over treatment, end of life and otherwise, to the very people who have a conflict of interest.
And the people who have the conflict of interest to the government, because they're charged with reducing costs.
The government is the paying agent here in this case, and in most of health care cases, is the way we're headed, the government's the paying agent, even if it's your insurance company, the government's paying agent, and they're charged with reducing costs, and they're gonna decide tell your doctor he gets reimbursed or not.
Not good.
Just not kosher.
You know, and I I just this whole discussion.
So I'm I uh called the doctor said he was offended.
Well, not nobody was well, I'll speak for myself.
I was not criticizing doctors in discussing this attempt by the regime again to sneak this provision in that would basically tell doctors, you don't hold those end-of-life discussions with your patients, you're not getting paid.
I mean it a, it's blackmail, and again, um the end of life discussions take place with lawyers and other family members.
You prepare a legal doctor, you go to legalzoom.com or whatever.
Presumably at the time all this comes into play, you're not able to speak to a doctor.
So if you're having end-of-life discussions with a doctor when you're cogent, uh, and you're talking to somebody representing the paying agent.
So the real thing it's gonna kill everybody, this is what what needs more properly to be stated, the real thing it's gonna kill everybody is debt panels.
The government's debt panels, because the debt panels equal death panels, because we are in debt and we don't have the money, and the paying agent is bankrupt and printing money and borrowing it from the ChICOMs, the paying agent for senior citizens' health care.
And now they want doctors to start having discussions about, you know, when it's appropriate for you to just check out.
And we remember Colorado Governor Richard Lamb.
We know that liberals are liberals and Democrats are Democrats, and we remember this guy saying back in the 80s, 20 years ago, plus this guy said old people have a duty to die and get out of the way.
Well, when the pay that's a governor, well, when the president, when the when the Secretary of Health and Human Services, whatever the paying agent starts talking that way, old people have a duty to die, and then they assign doctors to have such conversations, or they don't get paid.
Red flags go up all over the place.
Pure and uh and simple.
All right, brief time out, my friends, L. Rush Ball, open line Friday, back after this.
Okay, we have a cell call next from uh from Oregon.
This is Justin.
And Justin, since you're on a cell phone, I need to tell you something.
You will not be able to hear me when you are speaking.
So try to stop every now and then so I can react to what you're saying.
Okay, that's perfect.
Uh well, first of all, make a ditto's rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
Uh, I wanted to say that last year, you know, you uh broke from your policy when we were going against this health care thing and said that we you instructed us to try to stop this by calling our uh Congresspeople and all that, and I and I understand your policy, and I also understand the fact that you broke that policy.
I think that it's really critical that in this next primary election that you break with policy again and kind of lead us to to get that most conservative candidate that we can out there because this is a a really critical uh time to be and an opportunity really to show the differences between Obama and what we really are standing for.
Yeah, there have been a number of people who have uh approached me in recent months to think about changing this policy of mine, which is to not endorse during primaries.
Well, I don't necessarily think it should be a change in policy, but uh uh you know, every you have to break the rule to not break the rule, but uh what's that what's that saying where there's always an exception that proves the rule?
I think this is the exception.
And I and I think it's a good policy, but I think this is the exception to that rule.
Well, you might have a point.
I've uh the reason there have been many, I guess the overriding reason for not endorsing during a primary is somebody's gotta be able to earn it on their own.
I understand.
I understand.
But I don't mean that in an ego sense.
I I don't no, I don't I don't mean in that way.
I I just you know primary is good for ferreting out this uh stuff.
Find out find out where you are, find out how good the candidates really are and and what they're made of.
And uh, you know, I I don't the problem with endorsing candidates is what do you do when they lose?
Now then you gotta go to somebody else, and you say, Well, your credit side, you're a candidate lost, you gotta say this is second best.
Well, I mean, no matter what happens, you're uh ending up with a McCain, and you're gonna say that anyway.
We just can't afford to have another McCain sitting in that position.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
And you see, not you think with the tea party out there that we are going to have another McCain.
Well, you know, it's it's tough to know when that's gonna happen, but uh that's why it's so important during that primary section uh segment of the of the election.
Ferret out those people who are like that, and because once that part is over, we're really we're stuck with whoever we got.
And so our time to fight for it is is during the primary uh I believe me, I get it.
I uh I I understand you are uh basically saying that my involvement's crucial.
Uh and that you would like to uh see it become a little bit more active.
And it's always been uh just a policy of mine to stay out of primaries.
I have I have uh never endorsed.
Wait.
Yeah, I didn't.
I was gonna say that I endorsed Buchanan or did I just yeah, I did endorse Buchanan, but there was a reason for that.
In 1992, I endorsed Buchanan because we needed to have uh in the Republican uh primary, we needed to have conservatism as a part of that debate.
Um unlike today, that that's that we don't have that problem.
The problem today is identifying the genuine ones.
Uh and seeing them rise to the top.
But believe me, the Rhino caucus is still a huge out there in the Republican Party.
I mean, a Republican Party, it's kind of hidden right now because of the the new house being sworn in and the euphoria of the aftermath of the election.
But I guarantee you the Republican Party's got its own battles shaping up, and it's gonna be over the 2012 nominee, and it's gonna be over the same old arguments.
We want a centrist rhino-type Republicans, moderate uh it's not so much identified with the conservative social causes like abortion and that stuff, or we uh we're gonna go full-fledged conservatism in a in a nominee.
And we got plenty of Republicans who don't want to go full-fledged conservatism.
Just remember we had a whole lot of Republicans in 1975 and an eighty who didn't want any part of Ronald Reagan.
Well, he was a dunce, an idiot.
There is that template of conservatives that exists, and the people that buy into that are pretty much liberal.
Liberal Republicans often call a moderate, by the way, uh Republican rather than liberal.
But Justin, I appreciate the uh the input and the advice.
We move on to Tony in uh Orange Park, Florida.
You're next, and great to have you here.
All right, and thanks for taking McCall.
You bet.
I want to uh make a comment about Bill Gates wanting to reduce the uh military by seventy-eight billion dollars.
Uh I did tw I did over twenty-one years in the military.
I joined up in 72.
We had 325 ships.
Nixon gave us three three forty or three fifty.
Ronald Reagan came along and gave us six hundred and fifty ships and a half a million man army.
When I retired in ninety-four, every president since Reagan has reduced the military.
Right.
When I retired when I retired in ninety-four, we had three hundred and fifty ship Navy, which was six fifty was already paid for by the American taxpayers.
Right.
And now they want to reduce the forces by one hundred and seventy-five thousand in each marine and army.
Hey, you knew this was coming.
What what what do Democrats do?
I mean, legitimate budget cuts they go to the Pentagon.
I would say uh well, I I would agree with you.
If if we're gonna start cutting federal employees, let's leave soldiers alone.
I mean, they're what what we I'm sure we've got what is the number of uh military people being cut?
What did I see?
70 some odd thousand or something?
I I may whatever the number is, I'm sure we can find that in the civilian workforce all over this country easily.
Well, when you when you send 160,000 people overseas, and then you can tell the American people that our full our armed forces are fully deployed, something is wrong.
Right.
If we had the military that Reagan gave us 9-11 would have never happened.
Just depends on your perspective.
If you're the American left and a hundred and sixty thousand soldiers deployed is uh fully deployed, makes total sense to them.
It all depends on your perspective here.
And they and they happen they happen to be running that branch.
Well, we have three hundred million people in America.
And only they expect us to get by with less than two million in the forces.
I mean, something's wrong.
These people are these people are smoking some, but they won't let us smoke.
Well, look, I I'm totally on board with you.
I I understand entirely.
What was Gates, Robert Gates, defense secretary yesterday, uh, called for shrinking the Army Marine Corps by as many as forty-seven thousand troops.
Now, I know that they've got to go budget item uh by budget item by budget item.
But if the if they need to get rid of 47,000 bodies for budgetary reasons, I think you could probably find that.
And you probably find people making a lot more money than soldiers are making, incidentally.
Forty-seven thousand of them throughout the fifty states, uh, and not do a whole lot of damage out there.
Not as much damage as that degree of cut uh in manpower, the U.S. military would uh would pull off.
So I agree with you.
Jim, in Port Huron, Michigan.
Great to have you on open line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Happy New Year and uh happy birthday.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, Rush, uh the reason I call a couple comments.
You know, I've been following the uh health care uh debate and the new vote.
And what's interesting is that every time you see a Democrat talking about that health care program, they've got three, maybe four points that they can point to that made the health care program worthwhile.
Yet they pushed through twenty, seven hundred pages of BS on the American people that they they said we had to have, which is absolutely ridiculous.
And you find out that that three, four points or something uh Republicans were wrong with them on when they wanted to go bipartisan to begin with.
So it's absolutely setting to listen to them talk to uh talk about it now.
And the other item is the uh the cost of that health care bill.
Uh Paul Ryan on uh was on uh Greta Van Sustran Last night, and he probably gave the best uh best and most articulate reasons for the cost of the health care bill versus what the Democrats are putting forth.
Uh uh he made it very plain where the cost and uh and the CBO estimates that the Democrats are giving us were way out of line.
Uh the fact that they're not that they wanted to cut Medicare by a half a uh 500 billion, they want to cut Medicaid.
Uh it's absolutely ridiculous their stance on this, and I just hope the Republicans stand up and put pressure on the Senate to get rid of this uh crazy bill.
Oh, they will.
I mean, I've I uh uh the first time around it ain't gonna happen.
That's why they gotta keep go plugging at this.
They're gonna it's gonna it's gonna get it's it's not gonna pass the Senate first time around.
There's some Democrats that are gonna vote to repeal it in the House.
They announced today, I forget who these two, two of them I saw, maybe more.
Uh some Democrats in the House are going to vote to repeal it, and uh it's it's not gonna pass the Senate at first, but the more you do this, the more pressure you bring, the more the polling data shows that people want this repealed, the more the Democrats have to defend this, the better.
And that's why send a repeal bill up there every month if you have to.
MVP, with the eye out of people he's had all year, and he's carried his team to the playoffs, and they're gonna win the Super Bowl.
Peyton Manning for MVP.
Wait a minute, I didn't hear the first part of what you said because you're you are you picking the Colts?
Yes, I am.
I think Peyton Manning should be the MVP of the league.
No other quarterback has had to play with the amount of injured reserve players that they've had on the Colts this year.
They're still making it to the playoffs, and I pick them to win the Super Bowl.
All right.
Uh Peyton Manning for MVP winning the Super Bowl.
So you think they're gonna go you're gonna get through the New York Jets.
They're gonna kill the Jets.
Peyton Manning's the man.
All right.
There you have it.
That's Jim in Port Huron, Michigan, who's obviously given up on the Lions, and I guess the uh Colts are the nearest geographically good team.
And there you go.
We'll be back.
We'll continue after this.
Okay, we're back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Grab audio somebody number 13, Mike.
We don't have Paul Ryan from Greta last night.
We do have him yesterday afternoon uh Wall Street Journal Conversations with the talk to Paul Jigot.
And this is a uh this is a small sound right, but Ryan is pay attention to him.
Brilliant guy.
Budget matters, brilliant guy.
Jigot said some Democrats criticize you for backtracking on the promise, campaign promise, $100 billion deficit reduction.
Can you respond to that charge?
You're already backtracking.
Is that true?
If people think we're afraid of cutting $100 billion, they got another thing coming.
This is just the beginning.
Wait till we do our budget resolution, wait till we do our fiscal year 2012 spending bills.
We're gonna keep going.
That's the Paul Ryan that I know.
I met Paul Ryan.
I can't.
Paul Ryan was an intern at Empower America when Jack Kemp and uh Bill Bennett ran that shop in Washington.
I was up there.
Well, well, flew up there one one weekend to meet Bennett for a week into Revelry, and they took me by the office, and Paul Ryan was in there as an intern.
And I I he remembered meeting me.
He told me that's the first place that we met.
And so there he was, intern for Kemp and Bennett, Power America, Forbes and all that.
Bam o and here he is now running the budget for the U.S. Republicans in the Congress saying a hundred billion, hell.
That's just the beginning.
Also, Gallup poll.
Jim Garrity at the campaign spot over at National Review online.
Uh 24% of Democrats want Obamacare repealed.
So don't believe all of this Rasmataz out there.
That all of a sudden there's this ground swell, you're gonna raise the deficit, you're gonna destroy the budget.
Nobody wants you can't start repealing 24% of Democrats.
What Obamacare repealed?
Gallup poll, the outrage over repealing Obamacare is phony, it's manufactured, and and it's it's looking, it's it's typical.
You can you can how many of you have heard just this just an illustration here?
How many of you have heard the name Jay Carney being bandied about as one of the potential replacements for uh Gibbs as the White House press secretary.
You haven't heard.
Well, Jay Carney used to be one of the top editors, writers at Time Magazine.
But the media is not biased.
In fact, AP has put out a story.
There's a new, there's a new word for bias in the AP style book now.
Well, it's not.
They don't call it a new word for bias.
I do.
The AP's put out this thing that says they're going to be better at journalism.
And what they're either going to improve is in the area of contextualism.
They're going to be better at context.
we Which, if you know how to translate this stuff, it simply means that's how that they're going to try to disguise.
The fact that they are part of the state-controlled media.
Just during the break, uh Dawn went in, and I went in to see Dawn and Brian.
When is your golf show start?
And I said, Tuesday night.
Reminds me, I did an interview yesterday afternoon after the program with a golf reporter for USA Today.
And I think he said it's going to run Tuesday.
The Haney Project, which stars Hank Haney and me, premieres Tuesday at 9 o'clock on the golf channel.
It's eight weeks.
Each show is a half hour, from 9 to 9.30.
And he was asking me really some some good questions about this show.
What was my objective in doing this show?
And what did I think of it?
You know, I couldn't talk about the the development of the show because that that uh that gives it all away.
But it's folks, it is a it's it it's reality TV.
I mean, just shot video video.
I mean, it must be a hundred hours that that's that's been shot, but it has been a blast.
And uh it it I went through a whole lot of uh changing emotions when this thing started because I thought I had not seen the previous two installments of the Haney Project.
The first one was with Charles Barclay.
Of course, the objective here is for Haney, who used to be Tigers coach, and he's uh he's a god in the in the golf world.
Everywhere I've been with this guy, all over the world shooting a show, he's a god.
And and I had not seen his first episode with Charles Barclay, I had not seen the second Haney project installment with Ray Romano.
I'd heard about them, and the objective is for a professional golf coach to take a rank amateur and try to turn them into much better golfers to improve their game.
Now, I had not seen any of the other episodes, and I had not met Hank Haney.
I just assumed that what was going to happen here was get some golf instruction and mix that together with elements to make a good television show, and voila.
Now, all of that happens, but I met somebody who is as committed what he does as I am to what I do.
And I don't run into that very much.
I I gotta be very honest with you.
And it was fascinating for me to run, I I'm usually the the most in everything I do.
I'm the most committed to to it, like in radio.
You're not gonna find anybody more committed to what I do than I do than I am.
And so I I've never in my entire life run into anybody as committed in any avenue of golf.
I'm at some PGA tours, now I'm not spent time at uh pros, I've not spent time with him practicing and all that, but uh he is singularly focused on teaching people the right way to play the game.
Debunked, I can't tell you how many myths.
One of the problems with amateurs is that every other amateur who can't play the game tries to tell you how to play the game.
And you end up with so many erroneous things, swing thought errors, things that are that are somebody will tell you what works for them, you try it, it might work once, but it you end up with 15,000 swing thoughts in your head, and you have paralysis and so forth.
So it took Haney a while to figure out what he was dealing with.
He had to drain my brain of everything I knew about golf, everything I thought about it, and basic 13 years, that's how long I've been playing, 13 years of everything I've been doing physically, and throw it out.
Although he didn't say that's what we're gonna do, it just ended up happening.
And I I'll I'll tell you this much.
The first, well, I don't know how they've cut it.
Even though I have final approval rights.
I've not seen the final versions.
Okay.
Don't misunderstand.
But I don't know.
The first episode was just the first two.
Full-fledged.
We're over in Hawaii.
We're uh, you know, team vodka going on having a great time by episode three, boot camp.
Uh go down to his ranch in Texas.
That's talking about yesterday, six hours with one club, no break.
The uh unionized golf channel camera crew took two breaks.
I didn't get a drop of water.
I mean, this is like this is like training camp for high school football in August.
This was in September.
This is after we had a couple episodes shot.
This should have been done first, but the way the schedules worked out, it didn't so it actually makes it more interesting this way.
Uh and there's one episode.
I'm about to flip my I get so mad in one of these episodes, but I bottle it up.
Because I'm hellbent.
I am I'm I'm not gonna lose my composure on camera, no matter how badly they're trying to goad me into doing it.
So I just uh I just retreat into myself and keep plugging away at it.
Uh and it it's uh the whole thing turned out to be a life lesson, and there's still two episodes to shoot.
The whole thing turned out to be a life lesson, tremendous learning experience.
Because it would have been, and I say this with all candor, I don't want anybody misunderstand High City.
It would have been easy for Hank Haney to size me up and figure out, all right, look, uh I've got this guy limbogged, he's this and that.
Let's just go easy here.
I don't want to, I don't want to be insulting, I don't want to do any of this.
He could go on the celebrity route and all that, and he totally threw that out.
I was a buck private.
Uh didn't matter.
He was singularly focused on analyzing everything about my game that was wrong and fixing it.
And he's this guy spent long emails to me, video analysis from sessions with him with commentary and stuff that had to take him hours to put together.
And obviously he did it because he is just obsessed with being the greatest teacher he can be and taking people that really don't know what they're doing and try to make something out of them, which was me.
And uh at the same time uh being true to his own uh uh uh purpose, which is to be great instructor.
And it it was it was there a couple episodes there weren't any laughs.
No, they may edit some in from previous shows to make it look like it, but there are a couple of shoots there weren't any.
It was dead serious, and it it um took it took me a while.
I finally had to say, okay, this is this is not just we're not just doing a fun television show here.
This is this is this dead serious.
So it's it is gonna be for me, I I haven't watched it all.
I've seen uh some of what they've sent me.
And oh I the Libs folks are gonna be shocked.
They're gonna be stunned.
There's a secret reason I did this.
I don't want to give away the secret reason, it won't be a secret.
Uh but there are a number of reasons I did this, and they've all panned out to be good.
They've all panned out to work out the exact way I intended them to.
Uh so it's it's been a uh a fun and worthwhile I can't see I gate y'all I can't answer that question.
I um if I start answering questions like that, then I kind of give away the progress of the uh of the show.
He just asked me, is the game better?
Um look, it my game, yeah, it is.
It yeah, it's that's a that's another upper, it has worked.
It's the first time lessons have worked with me ever.
The very only time lessons have worked with me.
I don't know if it worked, but well, I've heard it didn't work with Barkley, but I haven't I haven't seen any of those.
But it did work, but it's the first time that's the first time I've ever spent such time with an instructor.
I don't I'm not trying to impugn other instructors I've worked with, that you know, spent an hour with them here, two hours there.
This has been a hundred hours, and there's still fifty to go uh for for two more episodes, maybe not that many, but uh no, it's worked.
First time it's worked.
It's it's been a um there's one thing I would love to, it's gonna be episode four or five.
I would love to be able to tell you right now.
But I just I I I okay I will.
I just want I'll just give you a little tease.
I show up, and Tom Farrell, Philadelphia, big Eagles fan, probably upset that I've picked the Eagles to lose on Sunday.
Uh I meet him over in the Bahamas, beginning a shoot, and I look at him, I point my finger, and I say, We get off this boat, we're going to the range.
We're not going to cocktail party.
Screw the cocktail.
We're going to the range.
And have I got a surprise for you guys.
Ps that's that's all that's all I'm gonna tell you.
So I I put myself on the line there.
I have to see how that worked out.
So anyway, it's been fun.
And the uh, as I say, it starts Tuesday night at nine, it's eight episodes of a half hour each.
And the uh interview with USA Today, which was pleasant.
You agreed, Dawn.
Don't it was a it was it was very pleasant.
So everything about this has been a fun exercise.
I gotta take a brief time out.
We'll come back.
Uh more of your phone calls on open line Friday, right after this.
Don't go away.
Somebody in the break asked me how the dogs are.
I said, Look, you've done golf, you've done football, you better go for the trifecta and uh totally tick off the issues only crowd, talking about the dogs.
All right, funny story about the dogs.
Um the dogs are at their school.
And I got Catherine's still away with her family.
Uh she stayed on vacation, but I got the dogs, and I got the dogs with me, and Catherine wanted to see and talk to the dogs.
So I got my iPhone out, it's got FaceTime.
You can make video phone calls.
And the the camera has two, uh the phone has two cameras.
So I put the camera uh that featured well, the the the featured the dogs.
I'm looking at the dogs, that camera, and I turned the phone around to Catherine's on that because the dogs could hear her voice.
I show her to the dogs on the phone.
I know the dogs can't actually see an image on the phone, they can hear her voice, and they were going nuts.
You know, Catherine's, hi Abby, hi Wellesley, and woof, woof, and they're running around going nuts and going crazy.
It's the funniest thing I wish I had a way to videotape that I'd put it on to try to figure out a way to do that.
I'd videotape it, I'd put it up on Facebook.
What?
Yeah, I did I I look at that's good.
I I did not expect the Haney project to be s as singularly focused on making my golf game better.
So I thought I I don't know why, but I I thought it was more of a lighthearted here's some lessons gonna do a fun TV show.
This was boot camp.
We're gonna improve your game.
Yeah, I was it was uh took me a couple episodes to adjust to it.
Folks, we've had a lot of positive feedback.
This is I get people have asked me about this since the first mention.
The esteem, hearing restoration method.
I've had more positive feedback and more interest with regard to this than I I can remember.
Now I met and spoke to uh an esteem implant recipient, and she told me, and let me quote her, hearing aids are just that, they're hearing aid, but with the steam, my doctor was able to treat my hearing loss.
Now I feel cured.
Now it's it's uh it's a hearing aid, but it's an implant, and it actually uses your eardrum.
It does not amplify noise to help you hear better.
It it it what it does is uses your ex your inner ear, your eardrum uh to make it better to have natural hearing works improved, and it the technology works.
Um Steam is a prosthetic inner ear stimulator.
It does not use a speaker, does not use a microphone, it eliminates the need for hearing aids.
It uses the natural eardrum.
And I it's not cheap.
It's cutting edge, it's not cheap, and I've mentioned this, and I can't tell you how many people think they're losing their hearing and want to hear about it.
So it's on voimedical.com, ENVOY Medical.com.
That's where you can learn about the esteem hearing restoration method.
You can call 800 518-7320.
Uh also make sure you check a list of side effects and benefits associated with this.
Um, and you can see it at their website.
Again, it is on voimedical.com or 800 518 7320 for the esteem hearing restoration method.
Uh it's and I finally some of my friends have had it done, and everybody that I've talked to sings the praises of this and didn't think something like this was possible.
So, here you have people ask me about it all the time.
Quick time out, come back, wrap it up after this.
Don't go away.
And I just got an email from Hutch, Ken Hutcherson in Seattle.
He uh, the Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson doing chapel for the Saints tonight.
Uh, pregame before the uh, you know, he says anything you want to pass on.
Tell them to enjoy it because they're gonna see the Steelers again before it's all over.
Seriously, he said you your picks are all wrong.
Well, you got half of them right.
He said the Ravens are not gonna lose, and the Eagles are not gonna lose.
So your picks, other than that, you're 50% right.
We'll see.
Wildcard weekend is tomorrow, and the NFL starts at 4:30 in the afternoon.
We'll be back here on Monday.
Can't wait, folks.
Uh, Saints do have a prayer.
The Hutch doing chapel.
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