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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 pick it up at number 11 when we get back to the sound bites and keep number 30.
In fact, do number 30 here right away.
It's Friday, folks.
Let's keep by rolling on.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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One more thing on this, two more things on this end of life business.
First, I want you to rehear 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 healthcare debate.
An audience member, Jane Sturm, a hand-picked audience, by the way.
Jane Sturm stood up.
She said, my mother is now over 105.
But at 100, when she was 100 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 remember, 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, 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 her mother could get a pacemaker.
She's got it.
We're in certain circumstances here where this woman has to go to the government, in this case the top dog, and get permission for a pacemaker.
Will Medicare, Medicare pay for this?
Stop and think about that.
I mean, you expect that to happen in Cuba or with the ChiComs or something, but it's a television show featuring the great unifying Barack Obama as this woman.
Are you going to let my mother live?
I don't know about you folks.
The last thing I ever, 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, Mike, my mother, she got it.
She was fine.
The specialists wouldn't give it to her.
But they took her will to live into account.
One specialist did, so 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.
That'd be a pretty subjective decision to be making.
I think we have to have rules that say that we are going to provide good quality care for all people.
End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we're going to 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 going to help.
Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking 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 going to factor that in.
We can't make judgments based on that.
Too subjective.
Take the pill.
Take the painkiller.
Take the painkiller instead of getting a pacemaker.
So that's why death panels, end-to-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.
We know they don't have the money.
We know they're going to have to ration.
We know how they're going to ration.
They're going to make, you talk about subjective judgments.
The judgment's going to be who is most worthwhile for us to invest the medical cost in.
Somebody's going to die next year, or somebody's going to take another 50 or 60 years to die.
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 had end-of-life discussions with family planning financial experts, 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 the 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 are the government because they're charged with reducing costs.
The government is the paying agent here in this case and in most of healthcare cases, this 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 going to decide.
Tell your doctor he gets reimbursed or not.
Not good.
Just not kosher.
And I just, this whole discussion, so I'm, I, the guy called the doctor, said he was offended.
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-to-life discussions with your patients, you're not getting paid.
I mean, A, it's blackmail.
And again, end-of-life discussions take place with lawyers and other family members.
You prepare a legal.
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-to-life discussions with a doctor when you're cogent and you're talking to somebody representing the paying agent, So the real thing that's going to kill everybody, this is what needs more properly to be stated, the real thing that's going to 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 ChiCons, 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, that's a governor.
When the president, when the Secretary of Health and Human Services, whenever 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 simple.
All right, brief timeout, my friends.
El Rush Ball Open Line Friday.
Back after this.
Okay, we have a cell call next from Oregon.
This is Justin.
And Justin, since you're on the 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.
Well, first of all, make a Ditto's Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
I wanted to say that last year, you know, you broke from your policy when we were going against this healthcare thing and said that you instructed us to try to stop this by calling our congresspeople and all that.
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 get that most conservative candidate that we can out there because this is a really critical 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 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, you know, you have to break the rule to not break the rule, but what's that saying where there's always an exception that proves the rule?
I think this is the exception.
Because I understand the policy, and I think it's a good policy, but I think this is the exception to that rule.
Well, you might have a point.
The reason, there have been many, I guess, the overriding reason for not endorsing during a primary is somebody's got to be able to earn it on their own.
I understand.
I understand that.
And I don't mean that in an ego sense.
No, no.
No, I don't mean it that way.
I just, you know, primary is good for ferreting out this stuff.
Find out where you are.
Find out how good the candidates really are and what they're made of.
And, you know, I don't, the problem with endorsing candidates is what do you do when they lose?
Then you've got to go to somebody else and you say, well, your credibility shot, your candidate lost.
You've got to say this is second best?
Well, I mean, no matter what happens, you're ending up with a McCain, and you're going to say that anyway.
We just can't afford to have another McCain sitting in that position.
No, that's true.
That's true.
You think with the T party out there that we are going to have another McCain?
Well, you know, it's tough to know when that's going to happen.
That's why it's so important during that primary section, the segment of the election, ferret out those people who are like that.
Because once that part is over, we're really, we're stuck with whoever we got.
And so I'm to fight for it is during the primary.
I understand.
Believe me, I get it.
I understand.
You are basically saying that my involvement is crucial and that you would like to see it become a little bit more active.
And it's always been just a policy of mine to stay out of primaries.
I have never endorsed.
Wait.
Yeah, I did it.
I was going to say, did I endorse 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 in the Republican primary, we needed to have conservatism as a part of that debate.
Unlike today, we don't have that problem.
The problem today is identifying the genuine ones and seeing them rise to the top.
Believe me, the Rhino caucus is still huge out there in the Republican Party.
I mean, the Republican Party, it's kind of hidden right now because of 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 going to be over the 2012 nominee, and it's going to be over the same old arguments.
We want centrist rhino-type Republicans, moderate.
It's not so much identified with the conservative social causes like abortion and that stuff.
Or we're going to go full-fledged conservatism 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 in 1980 who didn't want to be 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, Republican rather than liberal.
But, Justin, I appreciate the input and the advice.
We move on to Tony in Orange Park, Florida.
You're next, and great to have you here.
All right, and thank you for taking the call.
You bet.
I want to make a comment about Phil Gates wanting to reduce the military by $78 billion.
I did over 21 years in the military.
I joined up in 72.
We had 325 ships.
Nixon gave us 340 or 350.
Ronald Reagan came along and gave us 650 ships and a half a million men Army.
When I retired in 94, every president since Reagan has reduced the military.
When I retired in 94, we had 350 ships Navy, which was 650, was already paid for by the American taxpayers.
Right.
And now they want to reduce the forces by 175,000 in each.
Marine and Army.
Hey, you knew this was coming.
What do Democrats do?
I mean, legitimate budget cuts, they go to the Pentagon.
I would say, well, I would agree with you.
If we're going to start cutting federal employees, let's leave soldiers alone.
I mean, I'm sure we've got, what is the number of military people being cut?
What did I see?
70-some-odd,000 or something?
Whatever the number is, I'm sure we can find that in the civilian workforce all over this country easily.
Well, when you send 160,000 people overseas, and then you can tell the American people that our armed forces are fully deployed, something is wrong.
Right.
Well, the military Reagan gave us 9-11 would have never happened.
Just depends on your perspective.
If you're the American left and 160,000 soldiers deployed is fully deployed, it makes total sense to them.
It all depends on your perspective here.
And they have to be running that branch.
Well, we have 300 million people in America.
And they expect us to get by with less than 2 million in the forces.
I mean, something's wrong.
These people are smoking some, but they won't let us smoke.
Well, look, I'm totally on board with you.
I understand entirely.
What was Gates?
Robert Gates, Defense Secretary, yesterday called for shrinking the Army Marine Corps by as many as, there it is, 47,000 troops.
Now, I know that they've got to go budget item by budget item by budget item.
But 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.
47,000 of them throughout the 50 states and not do a whole lot of damage out there.
Not as much damage as that degree of cut in manpower the U.S. military 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 happy birthday.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, Rush, the reason I call a couple comments.
You know, I've been following the health care 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 2,700 pages of BS on the American people that they said we had to have, which is absolutely ridiculous.
And you find out that the three, four points are something the Republicans were along with them on when they wanted to go bipartisan to begin with.
So it's absolutely sickening to listen to him talk about it now.
And the other item is the cost of that health care bill.
Paul Ryan was on Greta Van Sustran last night, and he probably gave the best and most articulate reasons for the cost of the health care bill versus what the Democrats are putting forth.
He made it very plain where the cost and the CBO estimates that the Democrats are giving us were way out of line.
The fact that they wanted to cut Medicare by $500 billion, they wanted to cut Medicaid.
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 crazy bill.
Oh, they will.
I mean, the first time around, it ain't going to happen.
That's why they've got to keep plugging at this.
It's going to get, it's not going to pass the Senate first time around.
There are some Democrats that are going to vote to repeal it in the House.
They announced today, I forget who these two of them I saw, maybe more, some Democrats in the House are going to vote to repeal it.
And it's not going to 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 IR people he's had all year, and he's carried his team to the playoffs, and they're going to win the Super Bowl.
Peyton Manning for MVP.
Wait, wait, wait, I didn't hear the first part of what you said because 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.
Peyton Manning for MVP winning the Super Bowl.
So you think you're going to get through the New York Jets?
They're going to kill the Jets.
Eight and 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 cults 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, Wall Street Journal, Conversations with.
They talked to Paul Jugot.
And this is small soundbite, but Ryan is, pay attention to him.
Brilliant guy.
Budget matters.
Brilliant guy.
Gigo 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 until we do our budget resolution.
Wait till we do our fiscal year 2012 spending bills.
We're going to keep going.
That's the Paul Ryan that I know.
I met Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan was an intern at Empower America when Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett ran that shop in Washington.
I was up there.
Well, I flew up there one weekend to meet Bennett for a weekend of revelry, and they took me by the office.
And Paul Ryan was in there as an intern.
And 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.
Bamo.
And here he is now running the budget for the U.S. Republicans in the Congress saying $100 billion, hell.
That's just the beginning.
Also, Gallup poll.
Jim Garrity at the campaign spot over at National Review online.
24% of Democrats want Obamacare repealed.
So don't believe all of this razzmataz out there that all of a sudden this groundswell.
You're going to raise the deficit.
You're going to destroy the budget.
Nobody wants.
You can't start repeating.
24% of Democrats.
What Obamacare repealed.
Gallup poll.
The outrage over repealing Obamacare is phony.
It's manufactured.
And it's, look, it's typical.
How many of you have heard, just an illustration here.
How many of you have heard the name Jay Carney being bandied about as one of the potential replacements for 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 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 whether how they're going to improve is in the area of contextualism.
They're going to be better at context.
Which, if you know how to translate this stuff, it simply means that's how they're going to try to disguise the fact that they are part of the state-controlled media.
During the break, Dawn went in, and I went in to see Dawn and Brian.
When does 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 in 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 good questions about this show, my attitude going into it and so forth.
Why did I want to do it?
What was my objective in doing this show?
And what did I think of it?
I couldn't talk about the development of the show because that gives it all away.
But folks, it's reality TV.
I mean, just shot video.
I mean, it must be 100 hours that's been shot, but it has been a blast.
And I went through a whole lot of 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 Barkley.
Of course, the objective here is for Haney, who used to be Tigers coach, and he's a god in the golf world.
Everywhere I've been with this guy all over the world, shooting this show, he's a god.
And I had not seen his first episode with Charles Barkley.
I had not seen the second Haney Project install, but with Ray Romano.
I had heard about them.
And the objective is, 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've got to be very honest with you.
And it was fascinating for me to run.
I'm usually the most in everything I do.
I'm the most committed to it.
Like in radio, you're not going to find anybody more committed to what I do than I do, than I am.
And so I've never in my entire life run into anybody as committed in any avenue of golf.
And I met some PGA tourists.
Now, I've not spent time, pros, I've not spent time with him practicing and all that, but 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, somebody will tell you what works for them.
You try it.
It might work once.
But 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 going to do, it just ended up happening.
And 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.
It's 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, you know, Team Vodka going on, having a great time.
By episode three, boot camp, go down to his ranch in Texas.
That's what I was talking about yesterday.
Six hours with one club, no break.
The 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.
It actually makes it more interesting this way.
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 hell-bent I'm not going to lose my composure on camera, no matter how badly they're trying to goad me into doing it.
So I just retreat into myself.
I keep plugging away at it.
And it's 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 to misunderstand how I say, it would have been easy for Hank Haney to size me up and figure out, all right, look, I've got this guy limb bogged, 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.
It didn't matter.
He was singularly focused on analyzing everything about my game that was wrong and fixing it.
And 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 at the same time, being true to his own purpose, which is to be great instructor.
And it was their 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 took me a while.
I finally had to say, okay, we're not just doing a fun television show here.
This is dead serious.
So it is going to be, for me, I haven't watched it all.
I've seen some of what they've sent me.
And the Libs folks are going to be shocked.
They're going to 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.
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.
So it's been a fun and worthwhile.
Well, I can't answer that question.
If I start answering questions like that, then I kind of give away the progress of the show.
He just asked me, is the game better?
Look, my game.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, 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.
Well, I've heard it didn't work with Barkley, but I haven't seen any of those.
But it did work.
It's the first time.
Now, it's the first time I've ever spent such time with an instructor.
I'm not trying to impugn other instructors I've worked with.
You know, spend an hour with them here, two hours there.
This has been 100 hours, and there's still 50 to go for two more episodes.
Maybe not that many, but no, it's worked.
First time it's worked.
It's been a, there's one thing I would let's gonna be episode four or five.
I would love to be able to tell you right now, but I just, 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.
I meet him over in the Bahamas, beginning a shoot, and I look at him, I point my finger, and I said, we get off this boat, we're going to the range, we're not going to cocktail parties, screw the cocktail, we're going to the range.
And have I got a surprise for you guys?
That's all I'm going to tell you.
So I put myself on the line there.
I have to see how that worked out.
So anyway, it's been fun.
And as I say, it starts Tuesday night at 9.
It's eight episodes of a half hour each.
And the interview with USA Today, which was pleasant.
You agreed, Dawn.
It was very pleasant.
So everything about this has been a fun exercise.
I got to take a brief time out.
We'll come back.
And more of your phone calls at 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 totally tick off the issues only.
I'm talking about the dogs.
All right.
Funny story about the dogs.
Over vacation, the dogs are at their school.
And Catherine's still away with her family.
She stayed on vacation, but I got the dogs.
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 camera has two, the phone has two cameras.
So I put the camera that featured, well, featured the dogs.
I'm looking at the dogs, that camera.
And I turned the phone around that Catherine's on there 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.
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.
Look at that.
I did not expect the Haney Project to be as singularly focused on making my golf game better.
I don't know why, but 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, 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 ESTEA hearing restoration method.
I've had more positive feedback and more interest with regard to this than I can remember.
Now, I met and spoke to an Esteem implant recipient, and she told me, and let me quote her, hearing aids are just that.
They're a hearing aid, but with ESTEAM, my doctor was able to treat my hearing loss.
Now I feel cured.
Now, 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.
What it does is uses your inner ear, your eardrum to make it better to have natural hearing works improved.
And the technology works.
Esteem 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 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 envoymedical.com, E-N-V-O-Y-Medical.com.
And that's where you can learn about the ESTEAM hearing restoration method.
You can call 800-518-7320.
Also, make sure you check a list of side effects and benefits associated with this.
And you can see it at their website.
Again, it is envoymedical.com or 800-518-7320 for the ESTEAM hearing restoration method.
It's, and I find 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, people ask me about it all the time.
Quick time out.
Come back, wrap it up after this.
Don't go away.
Well, I just got an email from Hutch, Ken Hutcherson in Seattle.
The Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson doing chapel for the Saints tonight, pregame before the, you know, he says, anything you want to pass on?
Tell them to enjoy it because they're going to see the Steelers again before it's all over.
Seriously, he said your picks are all wrong.
Well, you got half of them right.
He said the Ravens are not going to lose, and the Eagles are not going to 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.
Saints do have a prayer.
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