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Nov. 1, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 1, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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And we're back folks.
It is a breath.
No, it's a breakneck pace.
I mean, I don't know where the time's going is the point.
I can't believe how fast that thing is going by here.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
That's right, already Friday, already two hours into this.
And I feel like it.
I mean, I'm wrung out, but I still can't believe time is zipping by.
Great to be with you.
Great to have you here.
Il Rushbo at 800 282-2882 and the email address ilrushbow at EIBnet.com.
I mentioned at the top of the program that can I share one other piece of news.
You know, sometimes I don't know what to tell you and what not to tell.
I just heard every day's sales are better than the previous day on Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
It's just, it's just astounding, folks.
And once again, I'm at a loss, excuse me, as to how to thoroughly or properly express all of our thanks and gratitude.
But I have to tell you, again, what I shared the first of the hour, first of the program, one of the reasons for writing the book is to take the values of this program to people that otherwise wouldn't hear the program.
Young people 10 to 13, not going to listen to AM radio or talk radio unless they're near their parents who are listening.
And like I said yesterday, you know, I'm, folks, I am proud to be an American.
I have no embarrassment, no shame, no guilt, none whatsoever.
I want everybody to be proud of this country.
I want everybody to love.
I'm not looking for nationalism.
I'm looking for genuine pride rooted in real understanding of how we came to be.
It is a miracle.
The United States is a blessed miracle.
The people of this country are blessed because we have inculcated in our founding documents the nature of our creation.
And that's why we're blessed.
We're born as free spirits.
We human beings are born yearning to be free.
We're not born to be in shackles.
We're not born to be living under tyrants.
And sadly, the United States is the exception in terms of the way most people have had to live in the world.
This is the place dreams do come true.
This is the place that dreams set the course for a future.
There are no limits.
Your imagination in this country should not be limited.
And way too many people in this country are being told by adults, no, you can't do that.
No, if you do do that, you shouldn't, because it's not fair.
If you do that, somebody else can't do it.
It isn't fair.
There's too much guilt.
There are too many lies being told about the founding of this country, why it came to be.
Too many people are being made to feel guilty that America is illegitimate.
Yes, it's a superpower, but that's because it's robbed other people and stolen from other people.
And this is bogus.
But it's being taught.
And as somebody, you know, I'm proud of my family, my parents.
I'm proud, fortunate.
I give thanks to God the way I was raised, for the family I have.
And I've always been one that wanted to share my passions.
And I've always wanted people, everybody, I don't care how old, young, whatever the race, sex, creed, sexual orientation, I wanted everybody to listen to this program.
That's how proud of it I am.
And so the writing of Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims is an effort to expand the universe of the program.
Share the pride, if you will.
And to now get mail from young people reading the book, I said in the first hour of the program, it's cute.
And I don't want to insult anybody by describing it as that, but it's cute to me.
And it's heartwarming at the same time because it seems like here in the first week that it's working.
So it has the aura of successful mission about it.
And then people read it, give feedback that they like it.
It's icing on the cake.
So I have here a, let's see.
Let's see the fan mail for you.
Isn't it just a sample fan mail?
Dear Mr. Rush, this is from someone named Schaefer.
Dear Mr. Rush, I really like how you animated your book and how you hide little things in some pictures, like in chapter two, where the horse is wearing shoes.
I like that.
By the way, I'm nine years old and I'm on chapter three of the book.
I got it yesterday.
I also think that Liberty, the talking time-traveling horse, I think that Liberty is humorous.
Please write more time-traveling horse books.
Sincerely, Schaefer.
And then there's a little P.S. Rush, I homeschool Schaefer.
Sitting and reading has never been his favorite thing, but he loves your book.
He eagerly reads it.
And I even use Liberty Reading Time as a reward.
Thank you.
And we can't wait for more.
Avid listener and fan since 1990, Cynthia, Schaefer's mom.
And they're all rolling in like this.
Now, yesterday I mentioned that we are asking those of you to do intelligence recon for us.
As you travel across the fruited plain and you go out to your neighborhood mall or shopping area to find the book, if you encounter weird experiences, we want to know.
And we want you to tell us this at the 2FBT.com website.
You just visit the Rush Revere pane there.
You click on that and a whole new site opens up.
And it's, well, a new pane opens up, and it's Rush Revere.
And there's a yellow mailbox.
If you just click or tap on the yellow mailbox, you'll get an email form already filled out to Rush Revere.
And then you can address it to whoever you want, whatever character to us, and we get it.
And now we're getting intel reports.
We got some great recon.
Rush, I was listening to you yesterday about the Barnes Noble lady not wanting pictures taken in the store.
Well, I wanted the book anyway.
I was on my way to the DR and I stopped by a Barnes Noble in Winston-Salem on Haynes Mall Boulevard.
I was determined to get photos as well with my iPod.
So, first of all, I had to ask where the book was located when I got in the store.
And the man acted like he smelled something really bad.
He asked me twice what I had said.
And then he pointed me in the right direction.
So what this means, this guy goes in, trusted to buy the book, and the clerk goes, ew, you went, ew, what did you say?
Ew.
He finally pointed out where the book was.
And when I reached the cashier to pay for the book, different person, the cashier said, man, these things have been flying off the shelves today.
Every third sale has been this book.
And I said to her, I wish I had the money to buy a hundred of them and put them in the public schools of Forsyth County.
Thankfully, my five friends are being homeschooled in Virginia, and this will be one of their Christmas presents.
I was reading the book at work on break last night, and it's fantastic, Rush.
And it looks like you are paving the way for more adventures.
Well, if you are, I can't wait.
And God bless Vince Flynn and your wife for keeping at you about it.
I hated history in school.
I've learned more from your show the past 20 years than I ever learned in school.
Oh, almost forgot.
Your book was also on top of the teen bestseller aisle.
I got two shots off.
No one said a word to me, but I was elated.
The cashier seemed excited about the sales.
I love your show and enthusiasm more than words can express.
Keep doing what you're doing.
Jelaine from Walkertown, North Carolina.
And so our Intel recon efforts are working.
All of you are consider yourselves central intelligence agents for us.
And like some people, Costco, can't find the book.
Have to ask people where it is, even in Costco.
But it's there.
But I don't know.
I can imagine you go into the right place and say, I'm looking for Rush Revere and the great pilgrims of the clerk.
You act like it's dirty or smelly or something.
Keep at it.
Have fun with them.
Do not be rude.
Whatever you do, just have fun with it.
You know, offer to buy them a copy.
Don't really do it, but just offer to it, just to show them you have the generous characteristic.
So the mail from Young Readers is coming in.
And right now, I'd have to say, anecdotally, probably the most emails coming into Liberty, the talking horse.
And Liberty is a smart aleck.
It was fun, you know, writing the character of Liberty, the talking horse, because it's just, it's, you know, my brothers, it's like Mr. Ed, what did he say?
Mr. Ed meets William Bradford or something.
He had a great review of it, too.
So that's the update on Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrim's Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
And we are having a profound success with it this week.
And you all are just great.
Can't thank you enough for sharing your feedback with us.
But really, you know, I'm not around young people that much.
And so if I'm using the wrong word and describing them as cute, don't be offended by it.
It is to me.
I mean, here are these young nine and 10-year-olds writing me email as though they're adults, but they're not, and they're expressing how much they like it.
And it just, like I said, has the aura of success about it.
Because I really mean it.
I'm proud to be an American.
I'm proud of what I believe.
And I'm happy for people to learn that.
And hope maybe some of it rubs off.
It's what this program's always been about, creating the largest universe possible of informed, participating citizens.
If I had to be pigeonholed and give a definition of what the objective here is, you know, outside of the business requirements, I mean, you got to do those first, otherwise, nothing else happens.
But that would be what it is.
And honesty and passion, truth, and all of that.
So, this feedback to me is actually priceless.
I got to take a brief time out.
We will continue here at the EIB Network at Open Line Friday, right after this.
Ha, here are you.
It's Rush Limbaugh Talent on loan from God.
Great to have you here, folks, in the EIB Network.
Have we go back to the phones to the Bay Area in California?
Anastasia is with us.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
First off, I want to talk about your new book, but I also have a second point I need your help with, if you'll indulge me.
I'm Rush Baby, and if your show isn't on, if it's on the radio and if the radio isn't turned on, I'll go on and turn it on.
I just started your new book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, and I think it's so great that you wrote a book that's geared toward young leaders.
With all the trash that the literary world is throwing at children these days, it's nice to have a good, wholesome book that teaches accurate history to the next generation.
You know, I am so, Anastasia.
How old are you, by the way?
13.
13 or 15, did you say?
13. 13.
You are so well spoken.
And when you, and when you, you describe it as wholesome, you flatter me beyond any way you can know.
I can't thank you enough.
I'm so happy that you like it.
You made my day.
I mean, so many issues affect young people.
Me and my mom lobbied against a lot of bills this year, and one of them was a bill that you may have heard of out here in California.
It's AB 1266, also known as the Bathroom Bill.
Our wonderful governor, Jerry Brown, just signed it into law.
What this bill does is if you're a boy in kindergarten through 12th grade and you perceive yourself to be a girl, you can use the girls' showers, the girls' bathroom, the girls' locker room, and be on the girls' sports teams.
Yeah, at the same time, Anastasia, I am aware of this.
It's typical of California.
I'm surprised there isn't more outrage about this because it's clear what the purpose of this bill is.
All you have to do, she's right, but all you have to do is think you might be a girl.
If you're a boy, you might be, and you can go wherever the girls are.
Bathrooms, play on their sports teams, and vice versa.
If you're a girl and you really think you're a guy, you were intended to be a guy, you should be, you can go where the guys are.
And it's probably.
No, it's like, has Jerry Brown in the California Assembly not that a high school boy?
I mean, luckily, there's a group out here in California, PrivacyForallStudents.com, and they started a referendum against AB 1266.
So everybody who's a citizen of California can go to that website and sign the petition.
Let me ask you, Anastasia, now you're 13.
I'd be fascinated to know if you have a theory.
You're listening to 13-year-old lobbying against legislation here on this.
I mean, this is unheard of.
This is, I mean, we're breaking new ground here, Anastasia.
You're amazing.
Now, I want to know, can you tell me, I mean, this seems ridiculous to you, right?
And it's loaded with potential problems also, right?
So why do you think Governor Brown and the Democrats there want this to be the law?
I don't know.
They're just crazy.
I mean, it's insane.
There's like no real reason that you would pass this.
There's so many flaws in it, and there's so much room for, you know, bad things to happen.
Well, there has to be a reason they did it.
Now, they may not be being honest about it, but there has to be a reason.
They think they're solving a problem, or they think they are paying back a donor constituency group by authorizing this.
But there's no problem segregating young boys and girls.
There's not a problem with that.
There's no problem being solved here.
But yet somebody thinks there is.
You obviously disagree with this.
Your parents obviously do.
So what are you going to do about it?
Well, there's a petition that these, the privacyforallstudents.com, they started a petition, a referendum against it.
So if any of you listeners who are citizens of California need to go on there and download one of those petition forms and sign it and get all their friends to sign it too, because we just really need to get this overturned.
What is it?
AB 1266, did you say?
Yes, AB 1266.
AB 1266.
That means in California, Assembly Bill 1266.
Yeah.
From what I've read, Anastasia, this bill is the result of demands made by gay homosexual donors to the Democrat Party out there.
They are desirous for this.
Because they would probably say they want to end discrimination.
But the thing is, all the petitions have to be turned in by November 6th.
So it's a really short time period, but we really need to get it overturned.
It's not a lot of time.
You're right.
Yeah.
Time is now.
How long have you been working on this?
Like a month or something?
I'm not exactly sure.
It's 90 days from when the bill is signed into law.
You have 90 days to overturn it to get enough signatures.
Well, I wish you the best.
You know, I love California.
I lived out there for almost four years, and I just, I loved it, but it's just too weird.
Yeah.
It's just parts of it are just too weird.
Look, Anastasia, what, do you have, did you by any chance get the audio copy of my book, or do you have just the hardcover?
No, I just have the hard cover.
Well, I want to send you an audio version.
I am so proud of the audio version of the book.
I did it.
I recorded it.
I am just, I'm so proud of this, too.
And I want as many people as possible to hear it because it adds a whole new dimension.
Even after you've read the book, listen to me, read it, doing the voices of characters and so forth.
And it's fun.
So if you'll hang on, Mr. Snerdley will get an address from you where we can FedEx it.
If possible, we'll have it delivered to you tomorrow.
Okay, thank you so much.
Well, no, thank you.
Thank you for your show, too.
Well, thank you, Anastasia, and your parents.
I'm so glad you got through.
I'm glad that you like the book.
You get a great review here.
And just by the kind of person you are reading it.
She called it wholesome.
Well, it is.
It absolutely is.
13-year-old Bay Area activist scrounging up signatures for a petition against AB 1266 in California.
And with that, an obscene profit timeout.
Back after this.
Here's Kathy of Melissa, Texas.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
It's great to talk to you.
I have a quick question.
I was just wondering who is going to pay for all the insurance claims for Obamacare?
Hmm.
Who is going to pay for all of the claims?
Well, here's the model.
This is not going to happen, but this was, or it is the model, what they intended was.
How old are you?
Do you mind my asking?
I'm 46.
Okay, you're outside the target demo for Obamacare.
The target demo for Obamacare is roughly 18 to 34.
They are hoping that within that demographic, you're going to have young, healthy people who are going to sign up because the law says they must.
Their premiums are going to be full price.
They're going to be full price, but they, because they are healthy, will not be making many claims.
Therefore, they will end up paying the bill for the poor and the elderly who will be making a bunch of claims.
The theory is that young, healthy people will sign up because they have to, but after they're buying their insurance, they won't use it because they're healthy.
Whereas the elderly and the sick use it a lot because they're not healthy.
Well, the problem is that demographic can't find work.
There aren't any jobs anymore.
90 million Americans are out of work.
And so now, in the absence of that, until Obama gets the government in total control, it will be insurance companies who will be paying the claims.
So if the insurance companies go away and then it's just Obamacare, who's to say that the government is going to pay these claims?
Right, which means your neighbors, taxpayers, because the government doesn't have any money until they take it from somebody.
So in turn, we're paying for our own health care and then we're paying for our own claims.
Yeah, and others, because some will be given subsidies.
Some who cannot afford what they're going to charge because they don't have the money will be given subsidies and your money will be used for that too.
Amazing.
You're going to pay for it.
There's no other way around it.
I mean, you can say the insurance company, but where do they get their money?
Right, from our we're all going to be paying for this.
It isn't free.
It isn't $2,500 premium cheaper.
We're all going to be paying for it.
And it's so unnecessary.
We're taking something that just needed to be tweaked.
I mean, really, we're doing this because, what, $15 million, $20 million, whatever it was, didn't have insurance?
Don't get me started on this again.
I just get livid.
The whole premise of this thing was false, phony.
They're running around.
It's just unfair.
It's just not right.
The richest country in the world, and whatever number they used, it changed.
30 million people don't have health insurance.
That's immoral.
That's just not.
Okay, fine.
Well, let's come up with a plan that insures them.
Well, no, we have to reform the whole system.
No, we don't.
Yes, we do.
Because they're going to reform the whole system.
And now, apparently, everybody liked their plan.
Now we're learning.
Everybody liked their plan.
They liked their doctor.
So much so that Obama had to lie to him and tell him, you get to keep it as part of his reform, which tells me there wasn't this massive unhappiness with healthcare in America.
If the president lies, as he has big time, if the primary look at me, folks, pay close attention to this.
If the primary sales point, primary selling point to get you to support this was you get to keep your plan and your doctor, what does that say?
It means you were satisfied.
That was the big selling point.
You get to keep your doctor if you like it.
If you keep your plan if you like it.
Well, then what was wrong?
Why the hell do we have to turn everything upside down?
If you get to keep what you liked, what was wrong?
And now you were lied to.
You don't get to keep your plan.
You can't because it's not going to be offered.
Because the insurance companies now have mandates according to Obamacare.
They cannot offer you the plan that you had that you liked.
And the same thing with your doctor.
So now we're reforming health care to improve it and make it better for everybody.
And instead, everybody is livid because they don't get to keep what they want.
My only point, if it was, if the number one selling point was you like what you have, you can keep it, then what was wrong with it?
I just.
I'm about to explode here again, folks.
I got to take a timeout.
Yeah, getting excited here.
I got two iPads to upgrade and a new laptop to upgrade when I get home.
That ought to take about six hours, a couple of F-bombs along the way, but it'll get done.
Anyway, back to the phones.
Here's Becky in Arin, Utah.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thank you.
Good.
It's just an honor to talk to you.
I appreciate that.
Same here.
I've been trying all morning to get through, and I finally did because I read your, up to chapter four in your new book, Rush Revere and the Brave Children.
And I'm 60 years old, and I bought it first when you first advertised it.
So I bought it early before it even came out for my grandchildren.
Yes.
I said, oh, my grandchildren will love this.
And my oldest is only five.
But I thought, well, I'll read it.
So I'll read it to them no matter what.
So I got it, and I said, well, I'll just read it to see if it's at their level.
And I love it.
It's at my level.
I love it.
And I wouldn't lie about that like some people lie, you know.
No, I understand.
That's really so great.
It was interesting to you.
I mean, you're 60.
You know the story.
You probably know the truth.
I do, but you know what?
I didn't know William Bradford came from Holland.
That was quite interesting and how they met in England.
And I can feel your love for your country.
I can feel your love for your country through the book.
I just, I love it how nice you are to freedom, the little girl, and Liberty is just a doll.
That little horse is just great.
And it's just super.
I love it.
This is overwhelming.
You're making my day here because this is, if I might admit that this is exactly the kind of thing we were hoping for, is that parents, grandparents would enjoy reading it to even kids younger than it's intended for.
I mean, it's written for 10 to 13.
Like, I had some email from people at a seven-year-old said I couldn't read it.
It was just above the seven-year-old's reading level.
But he was able to listen to the audio version and liked it because the parents were able to read it to him or play the audio version.
This is exactly what was intended.
You're just, you're making my day.
In fact, I want to send you an audio version of the book, Becky.
Do you have one?
Last night I was reading it and you had to use your English accent.
And I was just wondering in your audio if you use your English accent too.
A couple of times.
Okay.
That would be fun.
A couple of times.
Yes.
There are various different voice inflections for the characters, including the horse.
But you can hear it for yourself if you just hang on.
And we'll get an address.
If it's a good FedEx address, we can get it out today so that you'll have it tomorrow.
The great thing, folks, the truth, the truth is universal.
The truth is at everyone's level.
That's good.
So I appreciate that very much.
That's it, my friends.
Don't forget, as you're out shopping this weekend, if you come across anything you think we need to know anywhere about your experience trying to buy Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, you are our central inspection agents.
You just go to 2fbit.com and report to us by clicking on the yellow mailbox.
And the YouTube interview that I did for Simon and Schuster is at rushlimbaugh.com.
So we're covered.
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