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July 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 1, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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By the way, Mike, we're up to audio soundbite number twelve.
I'm gonna skip all the stuff between what we just finished and pick up an error number twelve.
Hi, folks.
How are you?
We're doing fine and dandy here.
Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting network, the nation's most listened to radio talk show coming up on our twenty-third anniversary in one month.
And it's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open live.
Reviews expressed by the host of this program, documented to me almost always right, 99.6% of the time.
And nobody close.
It has taken years to get there.
It takes years to stay there.
It is years that we have.
By the way, did you see the other I had this story?
It's a couple of days ago.
John Lennon was a closet Reaganite.
Did you hear that?
John Lennon, shortly before he died, had told friends he had they had a the Come to Jesus meeting.
And and and the era that he had uh been in when he wrote the song, Imagine embarrassed him.
He actually loved Reagan.
He liked Reagan in 1980, even before Reagan had been elected and and uh uh began serving his term.
Can you imagine what Yoko Ono what that did to her when she figured that out when she heard that?
Oh man.
Yeah, tell you what, uh that folks, that you realize the shock waves that must have sent through the entire counterculture that's still out.
John Lennon uh, you know they don't believe it.
You know they're thinking somebody just made it up.
Uh John Lennon bought Harold Vanderbilt's uh former home, El Solano in 1980, shortly before his murder here in Palm Beach.
Did you know that, Snerdly?
Shortly before John Lennon was killed, he purchased a house on South County Road, El Solano.
Uh South County Road, that's that's um that's the estate section of Palm Beach.
Yes, sir, Rebob, John Lennon, Palm Beacher.
Oh, just to think about the reaction Yoko Ono had in the counterculture.
It's open line Friday, Potomac, Maryland.
Hi, Kathy, and glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Happy Independence Day, Rush.
Have a great time in Joplin.
Thank you very much.
My family and I recently traveled to Asia, and I couldn't wait to get back to tell you about two things.
The first is we listened to your mollifluous voice in the shadow of Chenannon Square in Beijing, because my husband would download the daily podcast, and we knew as long as we heard your broadcast, we still had a country to come back to.
So it was great.
There was something curious though, Rush.
Every few minutes the broadcast would stop.
And we were listening to it in the hotel room, and then we'd have to wait a few minutes and it would suddenly take off again.
My husband said, Well, I think it's because we had bad internet connectivity in the hotel.
But I said, I bet the party leaders were busy transcribing the program.
I uh wouldn't I wouldn't doubt it.
Uh you know, Chicom's do that.
Yeah.
I wouldn't I seriously, I don't I Oh, I know.
I wouldn't doubt it at all.
I'm I wouldn't predict it, but if if I if we learned that's happening, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
Yep.
Now, Rush, one more quick thing, because I know you have other callers.
In both Xi'an and Beijing, we saw T shirts for sale with Obama's face on them.
Now, these were not just any t-shirts.
They were the olive-colored army type t shirts, and the picture of Obama with the one with his chin turned up in the air, and he was wearing a Mao hat.
Oh, yes.
It was a hat with a single red star.
And I said to my husband, boy, I bet they didn't do that to Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton or even Richard Nixon, but they were there selling the Obama picture in the Mao hat in two places in the world.
Now, now were they doing were they honoring Obama?
Was it was this something they were doing in honor of him that he's one of them or was this Well I think the shop owners were very proud to be peddling these things.
And they they came up to us, oh, would you like to buy one?
And we just looked and said no, thank you.
And they may have thought they were ingratiating themselves with us by having a picture of our deer leader on their t-shirt.
But I will bet they don't really understand why it is that they're not.
Well no, I'm being told here, Kathy, that Obama Mao posters are supposed to be illegal over there, that the ChICOMs said they were going to put an end to the Obamao uh stuff.
Well, that's interesting because we saw these two t-shirts, as I said, one was in Xi'an and one in Beijing.
One in fact near the Great Wall, in a little tourist stop.
Right.
I wonder why the ChaiComs would would would would uh want to make the Obamao uh t-shirts illegal.
So you like that word by the way, Obama Obama.
Remember yet one of his one of his uh former uh what was her name, Anita Dunn.
I think it was Anita Dunn, some done.
Is it needed Yeah, what well yeah she she went to the National Cathedral and she's giving a lecture to some students and she admired Mao because Mao knew how to get things done.
Kathy, that's great.
Well, I can imagine what you it's uh you uh you're listening to the podcast of this program every day in your hotel in China, and the ChICOMs are jamming it.
That's what was going on.
Chicoms are jamming the signal, there's no question about it.
Because we listened to it in Hong Kong and Japan as well, and we didn't have those interruptions.
Yeah.
You know, Rush, I was fascinated watching the changes in the Chinese economy.
And what I did when I got back, I called up a friend at the Heritage Foundation, and I said, I'd like to s talk with one of your Chinese economists to understand more what's going on in the economy over there.
And sure enough, they got me to the right person.
So I just want to say again, Heritage is a great resource if you want to find out.
There you go.
Uh Kathy, thank you so much.
Thank you, Rush.
Have a great weekend.
You bet.
Let me correct myself.
Um I said Catherine Brinker.
I'm thinking of somebody else who um who wrote the book, The Miracle at Philadelphia.
It's scrolled off of the uh that's uh it's Catherine Brinker Bowen, and it's the miracle of Philadelphia.
It's about the Constitution.
Um Catherine Drinker Bowen, not Catherine Brinker.
Um But it the miracle in Philadelphia is the title of the book, Katherine Drinker Bowen.
Miracle of Philadelphia.
And and it really is uh timely, well worth your read.
Time to read it if you have it.
Here's Preston in San Antonio.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, given your great sense of humor, parodies, and impressions, I've been dying to ask.
Who were your biggest comedic influences?
Who are my biggest comedic influences?
One of my all-time favorite comedians was Professor Irwin Corey.
Oh, yes.
I loved Professor Irwin Corey.
Yeah, I was wondering if you were big on Laugh in Mad Magazine in your early years, what it might have been.
Yeah, I like Mad Magazine.
I loved Laugh In.
Uh I loved Impressionists.
Yes, exactly.
The rich littles of the world.
There we go.
Um but yeah, I I um I Byron Cohen.
I left my uh at at Nair and Cohen, Freddie Roman.
Um in in in New York, these some of these guys were just they're just the best.
Well, they sh they sure rubbed off on you very well, sir.
Well, I appreciate your asking me that.
Um because it's glad to hear it.
Great to be able to mention their names.
Thanks much.
Scott in Los Angeles, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, hello?
Yeah.
Oh, hang on a second.
Hey, Rush, um, I was listening to this guy call in a little while ago, and he was saying how they could just take and hire a bunch of firemen and send them down to to Arizona.
Right.
And it it's just amazing the the the lack of of knowledge that firemen just just creating jobs or putting firemen in in work.
It's not they don't generate any revenue.
There's no way to pay for them except for taking more taxpayer documents.
Yeah, but what was that the root of it?
We don't want to be careful here to uh denigrate firemen.
No, no, no.
No, absolutely.
They show up first on the scene.
They do a heck of a job.
Right.
But that to him was what job creation is the government sending somebody somewhere.
Right.
To do a job.
That's what job creation is to him.
Yes.
And that's the same thing when people talk about infrastructure.
Let's just build roads, make roads, not realizing that the roads don't generate revenue unless you make it a toll road.
There's no way to pay for any of the jobs, any of the trucks, any of the cement, any of the landscaping that makes these roads, infrastructure jobs are just overhead.
Yeah, that's true.
And and there's no rent and revenue generated from any of these jobs.
Now, again, not to upset teachers.
I love teachers, but it that's something else, too.
How do we generate revenue from the schools?
All of these government jobs are just overhead.
And the only way, like for my company, the only way for me to generate revenue is I have to sell the product I make.
I can make it, I can employ people, I can hire trucks, we can drive, we can do infrastructure, we can fix the roof, we can come up with new products, and we make the products and we sit there and stare at the phones.
And until the phone rings and we sell one of those those products that we make, no money comes in.
And then when somebody buys it, they're not going to pay me for 30 days.
So it's not until 30 days from the time that somebody buys my product.
If they pay you in 30 days.
If they buy it, and if they pay me in 30 days, do I start getting money to pay for the salaries, the project, the rent, the electricity, the insurance, and all the taxes and everything else?
I have to have that money from the product I made, or else we go out of business.
And all of these government jobs are just that.
You're really, you really are making a great point, but most people have no idea what does and what doesn't generate revenue, what does or does not add value.
There's a romanticism attached to rebuilding roads.
Yeah, let's rebuild a roads, infrastructure, let's rebuild a school.
Make work jobs.
Jobs, by the way, work that is supposed to have already been budgeted, work that should be done as scheduled maintenance.
Anytime you build a road or a house or whatever, scheduled maintenance should be part of the project built in to the cost.
You know, people have um over the course of this program, people have called here and complained to me about how much athletes make versus how little teachers make.
And they want to talk about the relative importance of the two vocations.
And I say, well, uh how many people pay to watch a teacher work?
Nobody pays.
In fact, you have to be forced into the room where the teacher is.
They have to make you go there, and then once you're in there, you are a prisoner.
You choose to go to uh an athletic arena, you pay to get in there or what have you.
The the the difference is revenue generation versus revenue expenditure in a capitalistic system.
If you want to start assigning moral value, you know, that's one thing.
But then you're going to have to have some tribunal set up to determine the the equal pay uh for equal work.
Who's going to decide what job is as important as another?
Well, there are people who want a government agency to do that based on their version of uh or view of morality.
You know, what's important and what isn't.
And some people are are profoundly offended that Alex Rodriguez makes what he makes.
Well, the dirty little secret is that Alex Rodriguez is generating far more than what he makes.
Same thing with uh with any star athlete.
So I've I've told people who uh have asked me, I said, you know, the the one of the most direct routes, if you want it, to a high income is commission sales.
You get yourself in the revenue stream of some corporate entity, business entity, and you make yourself responsible personally, directly responsible for a portion of the income that enterprise generates, and you're going to be compensated for it when you are directly responsible.
Commission sales offers one of the greatest opportunities.
Now there are pitfalls in it, and they've got rotten managers.
Everything's, you know, it's not magic.
But that's essentially what athletes are when you get down to brass tacks.
Lieutenant.
I'm going to...
Okay, Snerdley doesn't understand how it could be that a professional athlete is in commission sales.
Look at it this way.
It's and it's a stretch.
I mean, Alec Alex Rodriguez is paid, or any high-paying athlete is paid based on a number of things.
Leverage, what they can demand, uh, how much they generate, so forth and so on.
That is the key.
Now, Alex Rodriguez is not a salesman per se, but his high-level performance generates interest in the sale of tickets to the ballpark, to subscriptions to the Yankees cable network, to the sale of tickets in every ballpark the Yankees go to.
Rodriguez, because of all that he's become, he's he's a he's a uh gossip columns celebrity, he's a professional baseball player that happens to be pretty good.
There are a whole bunch of reasons why he attracts attention and why people are willing to part with money to be where he is, to watch him do what he does.
And in a sense, he's compensated for that.
In addition to he's not, he's not paid simply because he's good at what he does.
Being good at what he does generates a whole lot of revenue for a whole lot of people, and he's simply getting a percentage of it.
He's a percentage player, and you can argue that maybe he deserves even more.
Others would say, look what, 25 million dollars a year, nobody needs more than that.
That's not the question.
Who needs what is not the question.
You want to talk about fairness.
Who's generating all this revenue that all these people are making?
The people generating it should get a percentage of it.
This is why, folks, when you start talking about public sector employees, they're not generating anything.
Now, they are performing a service.
They are teaching, or they're doing whatever, but they're not generating revenues.
What the caller said is exactly right.
This is not to denigrate them.
And simply talking here about the differences in why and how certain people get paid.
My only point to you is in all of this, is not to be critical of anybody and what they do for a living.
I'm simply telling you, people ask me over the course of my life, uh what how do you earn a lot of money?
Commission sales is one of the fastest routes.
Now, I've been in commission sales, and what happens is it it nothing is magic.
I've been in commission sales, and for example, in in radio, you work at sales at a radio station.
They give you a list.
There are a number of salespeople at the station, and they each have a list of clients that they are to service to try to sell.
Not every client on the list is an advertiser.
You go out and get them.
Now, many times, and you you'll have a lot of salesmen will know exactly what I'm talking about here, when they start earning a little bit more money than the station thinks they should, they have certain people on the list taken away from them, and the list is given to somebody else.
And it's it's always a challenge.
Nothing is magic.
There's always a lot of hard work involved in it.
But I just for me, it was it was real simple.
You know, I've this is a business radio where people get fired on a whim.
You know how many times I've been fired.
I've told you.
I wear it as a badge of honor.
Only one time, maybe twice, only one time was it for what anybody would think is a fireable offense.
Insubordination.
The other times it was just the vagaries of the business.
Format changes, radio station, what Chinese opera, they're going to automate.
There's no reason to hold on to disc jockeys and so forth.
After a while, I figured out, you know, this is this I need ratings insurance.
I need something that's going to keep me here because the ratings are even filled with vagaries.
Back in those days, 20, 30 years ago, the way ratings were taken, it was a basically a wild guess.
So I figured out if I can find a way, get myself personally involved in the revenue stream of that radio station, that business.
It's going to be harder.
It'd be ratings insurance.
And everybody at some point in their life has epiphanies where they learn things.
Lights go off, or somebody teaches them something that they didn't know.
Hopefully that helped in your whole life.
I learn something every day.
One of the reasons I'm fascinated by computers, folks, is one of the reasons I'm fascinated by high tech.
It's one of the things that keeps my mind as as active as it as I want it to be and current and hip and uh and what have you.
That's just something I want to happen and something I want to be the case.
And in the process, if you're open to what you're learning, uh doors open that you sometimes didn't even know existed, and then you have to have the courage to walk through the door.
If it indeed opens up to.
And that could be something no more complicated than to say, yeah, okay, I'll move from where I live to a new city where the opportunity is.
But I've always said that most people's limitations are self-imposed.
Most of the limitations are not placed on you by others, but rather on yourself.
Good and bad.
You may love where you live, and where you live might not have a whole lot of opportunity in the field that you love.
So those are circumstances and realities you have to deal with.
And it's ridiculous to feel bitter about it.
If what you love to do requires you to go to someplace else to do it, well, and you don't do it, you have just limited yourself.
It's nobody else's fault.
It's not the country's fault, it's not the system's fault.
It's really nobody's fault.
It's just a decision that you made.
Once people can overcome this notion of self-limitation, then the world opens up to you.
And your perspective on life changes, and anything becomes possible.
Anything within your dreaming and imagination becomes possible.
And we want people dreaming.
We want little kids dreaming.
We don't want school kids being corrupted with the notion that their very existence is destroying polar bears.
We don't want little kids to be raised with the idea that their existence is destroying the planet.
We don't, but this is what liberals do to people.
Liberal teachers do this.
Liberal parents do this.
Young people need to have the vistas of their dreams as wide open as possible.
There's nothing wrong with anybody thinking they can do anything.
How many times have you heard a highly successful people say, person say that throughout their life, everybody told them they couldn't do it.
It's common because it happens.
There are millions of people who tell you you can't do it.
They do it for a number of reasons.
Some are trying to be helpful, trying to keep you grounded in reality.
Some are bitter because they have failed.
I've always said if you have, if you want to succeed in radio, for example, don't go talk to failures.
Don't go talk to people who are bitter about it.
You know, find people who love it.
Find people who've succeeded at it.
Try to get hold of them, learn from them.
Whatever it is you want to do.
Find the people who've succeeded.
Find the people that have passion for it.
Find the people who love it.
See if you can absorb something from them.
But negativism is easy.
Bitterness is easy.
Comes naturally.
Nobody has ever had to write a book on how to think negatively.
But guys who write books on how to think positively have become multimillionaires.
It takes effort.
Takes discipline.
Particularly when you haven't had any experience yet that generates positiveness.
But if you stick with it, you will.
It's the great promise and the great offer of this country.
Why so many people are working so hard to preserve what this country's always been?
Because this is the country where dreams come true.
People all over the world dream about coming here.
Because this is where dreams do come true.
And most dreams, not talking about fantasies here.
Most dreams are grounded in reality.
They can happen.
They don't happen overnight.
And when they happen, they may not last.
I once heard Oprah Winfrey say that she's not one of these people afraid of success.
And I, El Rushbow, knew exactly what she meant.
A person who is afraid of success is a person who has no confidence.
What are you smirking at in there now?
You upset with me crediting Oprah for some.
Now she was in an interview.
I think it was, it was on, it might have been with Larry King.
It was not her show, snurtly.
I was, I wasn't watching her show.
I'm not a traitor here.
In fact, I was, I was I was channel surfing.
I ran across Larry King.
The suspenders blinded me, frankly.
They froze my finger on the remote.
Out.
So I couldn't keep changing channels.
I heard Oprah say she's not the kind of person afraid of success.
Now the person is afraid of success is a person when success happens, says, ah, this isn't going to last.
I don't really deserve this.
This this, no, this shouldn't just.
And they talk themselves out of it.
Other people, when their dreams come true, when the hard work that they're putting in, when it results in whatever they've defined as success when it happens.
Other people, all right, I hear, and then they say there's more.
That's why.
Have you ever wondered why somebody's got a billion dollars doesn't just stop?
You have.
You have.
You've wondered why somebody's a billion dollars just doesn't stop.
Okay, well then fine.
There are people, this is this is why when you better be careful when you go to job interviews, somebody asks you how much money you want to earn.
If you give them number, you've just told them, or you're gonna stop working.
Be very careful, folks.
You go on a job interview and they say, How much do you want to earn?
Your answer better be as much as I can.
Because if you give them a number, they're gonna say, uh-oh, this clown's gonna stop working when that number hits.
That's the comfort level.
It's not that you need anymore.
That that whole word need, need not even a point.
Of course, a porcelain is a comfort, of course a billions comfortable.
I'm not talking about comfort.
That's my point.
I'm talking about ambition.
You know, I'm talking about self-worth, fulfilling one's sense of value and self-worth.
We happen in in certain ways to uh define that by money, other ways are used to define somebody's self-worth.
It varies from person to person, so forth, but I'm just asking you.
You know that there are people who make a billion that don't stop.
It's it's And it's not that it's not enough.
They've got more than they ever need.
Why does Warren Buffett keep doing it?
Why does Warren Buffett?
He's 80 somehow.
Why does he still do what he does at Berkshire Hatha?
Why does he do it?
Yeah, 38, 40 billion dollars.
He's out there saying he's going to give it all away when he dies to Bill Gates charity.
Why?
He loves it.
Pure and simple, he loves it.
And he wants to do more of it.
He happens to keep score.
His success is determined by Berkshire Hathaways value increase or not.
Whatever the value is, if it's $25 billion and he wants it to be $40 billion, fine.
That's what he shoots for.
Nothing wrong with it.
I gotta take a brief time out here.
The broadcast engineer is going to have another conniption fit.
Folks, I really think it's starting to collapse around Obama.
Cardinal Faster and Specialty Company, Cleveland-based manufacturer of screws and bolts for wind turbines, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday.
They're having trouble obtaining working capital financing from their primary lender Wells Fargo.
President Obama visited this company, which is in Bedford Heights near Cleveland in January 2009 before his inauguration.
He went in there to highlight this company, Green Energy, they're the future.
They filed for Chapter 11.
Everything is collapsing around Obama.
We hope that you have a wonderful Independence Day weekend at 4th of July.
And don't forget Landworth Park, Monday, Monday night in Joplin, to if by tea, delivered in a giant semi-trailer truck.
And I will be there.
Going to be part of the celebration with everybody Monday night in Joplin, Fourth of July.
Looking forward to it, and hope to see you there.
That's right, my friends, from tea to shining tea.
Two if by tea in a giant truckload refrigerated rolling into Joplin Landrith Park, big Fourth of July celebration, which kicks off at 3 o'clock on Monday in Joplin.
We'll be there around 8.
A couple of big country acts performing, big fireworks display.
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