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Dec. 13, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 13, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
It is Friday, and you know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Yes, revob open line Friday, which means let me go to the phones.
This is one of the greatest career risks ever taken by a major media figure.
And that is turning over the content portion of the program to lovable yet rank amateurs.
There are no other major media figures that would do this, but I happily do it each and every Friday.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800 282-2882 in the email address ill rushbow at eibnet.com.
Okay, the staff on the other side of the glass, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is uh perplexed.
We had a we had a caller uh in the last hour who was uh trying to make a point about what was he talking about the the the yeah prescription drug costs and uh and he he said he gave me an analogy he said like if if I just told you you know just head to your nearest automobile dealership, just pick anything out of the that you want on the lot.
And the staff was stunned that I knew what that meant.
Uh because I don't go to the lot.
Uh I and they know this.
I um I call a dealer and I have them bring me the car.
And if I don't like it, they take it back and they bring me another one.
And they were stunned to believe or to realize that I knew what going to the lot meant.
Yeah, what do you think I've lost touch in there?
You think I'm that out of touch that I don't know what go to the lot and take your pick means.
Well, now this is really weird.
This is really weird.
I've been running beta software on my iPhone 7.1.
I'm a registered developer.
They just released beta 2.
I just downloaded it, and now I got an activation error.
It says my phone is not registered as part of the developer program, but it is.
So now my primary phone's dead.
I can't use it.
But that's okay, because my two backup phones are just fine.
They're not running the beta software.
So I'm just judge, just to show you, just to illustrate that I'm not out of well, everybody's got three iPhones, right?
No, they're not on the same number.
Not even I have uh figured out.
But I do have to figure this out.
This is this is not this is crazy.
I mean, if it was not registered, I couldn't have had beta one on it.
When's the last time I went to the car lot?
Um, that's gonna be years ago, and it it was not no.
I take it back.
I went with Catherine to the car lot uh 18 months ago.
But they knew we were coming and they had a segregated area with a bunch of cars to choose from.
So but I went to the lot.
So I knew what it was, but what I also told the guy was I just called John Elway.
He owns that street with all those dealerships on it.
Or maybe he sold it to Wayne Heisinger.
I I forget, which I think he still has some dealerships out there.
Or maybe Peyton Manning owns them now, along with the pizza joints.
I don't know.
I'd call one of those two guys.
If I was in Denver and said, pick out whatever you want, uh those are the two guys I would call.
All right, folks, little change of pace here.
Forget the budget deal.
We spent two hours on the budget, we've spent All that stuff.
I've had I've had something here I've been holding from Forbes all week in the eventuality that I might find it useful to talk about.
And it's uh it's called The Thirteen Things That Mentally Strong People Avoid.
And they're right on the money.
And I want to go through those things.
But there are just a couple other little news items I want to get to first.
Are you aware of the racial controversy that has arisen on Megan Kelly's new show on Fox?
You're not aware of this.
On Wednesday night, Meghan Kelly said that Jesus Christ and Santa Claus are white.
deal with it.
And I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
Let's see.
What is this?
Well, it's probably Media Iight or some, I don't know the name of the website, but it's it's one of these media watchdog sites.
The uh headline, Megan Kelly will address White Santa controversy tonight on her show.
Friday evening on the Kelly file, Fox's Megan Kelly will address the controversy surrounding her Wednesday evening segment in which she declared that it is a verifiable fact, quote unquote, that Santa Claus is white.
The segment set off all kinds of reactions from outrage to mockery to eye rolls to scholarly analysis.
Now, she also included in her original declaration that Jesus Christ was white too, and deal with it.
Now, in fairness, what's happened to her is what happens.
It's in a lighthearted segment that she had some guests.
It was in the Kelly File segment of her show.
I didn't see it, but I read about it.
And it's like everything else, she's she said something that angers the left, and so they are focusing attention on it.
She's now a racist, sexist pig it, or what have you.
And so tonight.
Well, it says there's several media outlets noted how Megan Kelly was absent from the anchor desk last night.
But her absence was unrelated to the Santa segment.
A Fox spokesperson claims or confirms that she was just sick.
So it's tonight, 9 o'clock, that Megan Kelly will address the white Santa Claus controversy.
Is there a controversy over the fact that Rudolph's nose was red?
There wasn't, right?
So if you say that Santa Claus is white, Rudolph's nose is red, the only controversy would be Santa Claus is white.
Right.
You don't know what's controversial about that?
You don't know what's controversial about declaring Santa Claus's white deal with it.
Well, well, he's been white in your world, and he's been white in my okay, okay.
I have to say Snerdley's got a good point here.
From the beginning of time, and when Santa Claus entered the sphere of time, Santa Claus has always been white.
The Coca-Cola Santa Claus was white.
The Gillette Shaver Santa Claus was white.
Right.
The Life magazine.
That's I have to say that Snerdley has a valid point here that wherever you looked, Santa Claus was white in American history.
But what about in Africa?
Was Santa Claus white in Africa?
Do you know?
Was Santa Claus white in Africa?
No, no.
They had Santa Claus in parts of Africa.
They've all Santa Claus there.
What Santa Claus, uh let's say, Santa Claus is Santa Claus.
What about Tehran?
Santa Claus White in Tehran.
Well, they don't do Santa Claus now, maybe in Tehran, but did they ever do Santa Claus?
Now, Santa Claus, St. Nick, St. Nicoletti, uh, wasn't the Italian originally with German?
It was German.
Are you sure?
Well, whatever he was, he was.
Okay, so the St. Nicholas figure that gave us the modern incarnation of Santa Claus has always been white.
Okay, well, Megan Megan's going to address this tonight on her show.
It's a yeah, it's a it's a controversy.
It's a controversy.
Uh the Chickification of Mandela's sign language guy?
Ask him.
Do you know?
All right, now we're being told here by crack research staff that the original St. Nicholas is out of Turkey.
If that's oh no, I know St. Nicholas is a real saint.
I know all that.
If that's the case, then it might have been Semitic.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh uh.
Okay.
All right.
If you look at it that way, then there's no other conclusion you can draw, and that is Santa Claus always white.
The guy that lives in the North Pole in the sleigh with the reindeer that comes down people's chimneys and eats the cookies and milk that mom leaves has always been white.
There's no argument about that.
Loves cold weather.
Lives at the North Pole, which is melting, according to uh the the butler in the Downton Abbey.
Ice poles melt might have to cancel Christmas this year.
The Butler Downton Abbey.
His name is Jim Carter, plays Mr. Cassen, ran this PSA over there this week.
I'm not kidding.
There's a PSA in England put up by Greenpeace UK using the butler from Downton Abbey, who's a lovable character and figure in that show, as Santa Claus, claiming that they might have to cancel it because the ice is melting there, which it isn't.
Anyway, okay, so that's that.
Now the chicken of American sports continues.
I don't know if it's chickification, but there's something happening out there.
Major League Baseball is going to ban home plate collisions.
They're just they're going to ban home plate players must stop and shake hands before the runner attempts to tag and score.
You have to slide.
You cannot bowl over to catcher.
They've been doing doing that in Little League for a while, and if you don't slide, and instead you bowl over, try to run into or collide with a catcher, they call you out.
The purpose of the home plate collision is to dislodge the ball from the catcher.
There is no more famous home plate collision than Pete Rose in the all-star game, I think in 1972 in Cleveland.
A catcher was Ray Fossey.
Ray Fossey is an all-star game.
Game didn't count.
Rose didn't care.
He played 150% every game.
Ray Fossey was never the same after that hit.
And it was brutal.
And there were a couple of collisions in the World Series.
Cardinals and the Red Sox, and it was brutal.
And it made the fans, particularly the women fans, very uncomfortable.
Why are they running into each other like that?
Why does he have to do that?
Why can't he just slide?
And and Major League Baseball, uh, they're having their their annual winter meetings at Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
Major League Baseball plans to eliminate home plate collisions, possibly as soon as next season, but no later than 2015.
Sources told that ESPN that there is a strong desire for the rules committee to fast track the specific rule change in time for next season.
Under the rules, changes being discussed.
Catchers will not be allowed to block home plate.
Runners will not be permitted to target the catchers.
The question of whether or not the plate was blocked or the runner targeted the catcher will be reviewable by replay with an immediate remedy available to the umpires.
Catchers or runners who violate the new rules will be subject to disciplinary action.
Can't block the plate.
Can't target the catcher.
That is 1970, 1972.
Who's counting 72-70?
Close enough.
This is 2013.
For crying out loud, don't be a nitpicker.
Anyway.
This is a another traditional fundamental aspect of the game.
Next, they're going to require every batter to wear catcher's equipment to protect them against being hit by the ball.
Because you know those major league pitchers, they throw the ball pretty hard.
If you ever been hit by one, it can really hurt.
And so they may make everybody since they go up there with body armor on.
Right.
Look at let me let me let me clarify something.
I don't know that this is happening because women find it uncomfortable to watch.
I just made that up.
I really don't know.
I I don't think I just there don't know who's responsible.
There is a wassification taking place.
Well, I don't know that women don't have any say in this.
They're not I I it's just a it's just a cultural thing, snurdly.
And you know what it proves?
The fact that you can't deal with it.
You just proved that you can't handle change.
It's a changing country, and it's leaving you behind, and you can't deal with it, and it's your problem.
You need to get real.
Pete Rose, by the way, thinks this rule is full of it.
Okay, here's another question.
If it is controversial to say that Santa Claus is white, if Meghan Kelly is gonna have to do a show on this tonight because of the controversy, then we need more information.
Is Santa Claus straight?
Well, he's married to Mrs. Claus, that doesn't mean anything anymore.
It could have been, you know, a marriage of convenience, throw everybody off.
What if the kids knew that Santa Claus was gay?
Might have changed Christmas.
Santa Claus may be transgendered.
Do Santa Claus wish he was a woman?
I mean, not if it's if it's going to be controversial to state that Santa Claus is white, then we need to get to the bottom of this.
Now it looks like Meghan Kelly is gonna is gonna tackle this tonight, nine o'clock in the Fox News Channel.
Okay.
Well, who finds out?
Wade Wade, who finds out Jesus is a Jew.
Well, I know if you tell some people that, but but but that that's that's a whole nother show.
I don't even want to I don't even touch that.
I mean it's it's racy enough here.
Look, I'm in my own mess.
What?
Is the Easter bunny white?
Oh, no.
Well, it always has been white, but that it that may be just as controversial to say.
Anyway, we'll keep track of this.
Keep you posted.
Because after tonight, Santa Claus may not be white and may never have been.
Uh Here's Ray in Livermore, California.
Head back to the phones.
Hi, Ray.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
You really know how to get under their skin, Rush.
And you're going to do it again with this one.
Merry Christmas.
Thank you.
David Limbaugh, the entire YB staff.
I called about what you were talking about in the I think in the first hour.
Boehner going after the tea party.
And um I think we were told in 2011 by Harry Reed that the tea party is dead.
And now we're being told by Boehner that he's only one half of one third of government.
But help me out on this, Rush.
Isn't Boehner really just have one half of one third of a backbone?
Isn't that what we're really waiting put me in the middle of it here?
This is I have stayed away from this.
One half of one third of a backbone.
Rush, I'm I'm starting a fund for spinal transplants for members of Congress, and I'll have my webpage up soon.
And we'll take your donations so we can get some backbones to these Republicans in Washington, D.C. Well, I'll tell you there are some linguini spines there.
You're right about that.
You know, uh that that's um the Easter bunny's a gray area.
Uh Santa Claus uh apparently if you're on the apparently you've got to disagree with Megan Kelly.
That's I guess on the left.
What did I do with it?
I had it right here.
How can this possibly have gone away?
No, these 13 leadership things.
I just don't tell me I put them at the bottom.
I could not have put them at the bottom of the stack.
I did not put them at the bottom of the stack.
Couldn't I did?
How is that possible?
Thirteen things mentally strong people avoid.
And this is from Forbes back on December 10th.
So I've been holding this here for three days.
Oh, wait.
Wait, I gotta take.
I gotta take Sandy from South Bend in the end.
This is incredible.
The number of people calling here who have genealogical traces to major characters from the pilgrim days.
Uh and and our book at Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
This is Sandy in South Bend uh Indiana.
Hi, Sandy.
Great to have you.
Hi, Rush.
What a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Uh I uh I'm tickled pink that you wrote the book.
I uh purchased it, and I'm gonna pass it on down to my granddaughter as soon as I get it read.
I haven't had a chance to yet.
But uh I am a tenth generation descendant of Captain Miles Standish.
That's just incredible.
We've had people call here that are related to William Bradford, John Howling.
Uh and now you haven't heard anybody from Miles Standish, and I thought it was time.
Well, you're it.
You are.
You're the first that's got any any genealogical trace to Miles Standish.
And and I want to tell you how they found out.
I had a couple cousins in the 70s that were doing the genealogy work, and they could not connect.
They they connected from Miles Standish up to a point, and from my grandfather, who was John Sidney Standish, down to a point, and they couldn't connect it, so they got in the car and they drove to Plymouth, Massachusetts, and asked people around there if they could give them some help.
And they were directed to an elderly lady that had a family quilt.
And the family quilt was little squares that had uh every baby's birth and deaths and everything, and by that quilt they were able to connect finally how we were related.
So uh I thought that was very interesting.
That is uh that's just short of amazing.
Right.
I I have a picture of it as all.
They uh took a picture and they photostatted it to all the cousins.
Well, that's good because I was gonna accuse you of lying.
So there's still quite a few boys that uh have the last name of Standish, so the name will be carried on.
I've got a couple of uncles that are still alive that are standishes.
Well, Miles Standish program today.
Miles Standish was crucial.
Miles Standish was a real man.
They all were back then.
But this is so so great.
Now, how many grandkids did you didn't say you how many?
How many do you have?
I just have two granddaughters.
Two granddaughters.
But you only have you only bought one book.
Yes, I I did.
Well, one of them is eight, which I figured she can read it.
She's reading a couple grades over what she's really in.
Uh she's in second grade, and uh then the other one's only three, so I didn't think she needed it yet, but maybe I should have bought her one.
Well, no, no.
I'll send you I'm gonna send you an ad an extra one so that they'll both have their own.
Oh, bless your heart.
A signed copy?
Yes.
Oh, that would be wonderful, right?
I would love that.
And uh also I'm gonna send you an audio version of the book so that even if they can't read it yet, you'll be able to play it for them.
Oh, that would be wonderful.
I'm sure they would enjoy that immensely.
Well, it's a it's a uh it's a different way of getting it.
You know, some some, especially young people love having a story told when they can't read, and this is uh you know, I did it, so it's really well done.
Right.
I love how you did the book too, that it looks like it's done on old parchment paper or something.
It just has the feel of being an old book.
So I I really like that how you presented it.
Well, I'll tell you what else I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna for your for your two granddaughters, I'm gonna send a couple of Ted T. Bears.
Oh, how from the two if by T gift Shop.
So that'll hold them over until we got some other stuff.
So I want you to hang on here, Sandy, and Mr. Snerdley will get your address.
Uh the uh give it make sure it's an address so we can use FedEx for so we can get it to you quickly next week, okay?
Oh, okay, sure.
I can do that.
Well, thank you very much for calling.
Well, thanks, Rash, for letting me talk.
No, it's my pleasure.
So a descendant of Miles Standish.
Yes.
Uh this has been a phenomenal experience, uh, writing this book and hearing from people.
Just d the fact that they're in the audience, that they're in this audience and they have genealogical connections with uh some of these great people that the book is written about.
That is a great feeling, I have to tell you.
Okay, now mentally strong people, the 13 things they avoid.
Now, here's how Forbes gets into them.
For all the time executives spend concerned about physical strength and health, when it comes down to it, mental strength can mean even more.
Particularly for entrepreneurs, numerous articles talk about critical characteristics of mental strength, tenacity, grit, optimism, unfailing ability.
As Forbes contributor David Williams says to fail up.
Do you know people that fail up?
I do.
My brother knows some.
He really irritates him.
You know people that fail up.
The Democrat leadership's a classic example of people that fail up.
That no matter what, everything ends up going well for them, no matter how bad they screw.
Some people just have that neck.
But we can also define mental strength by identifying the things mentally strong individuals do not do.
Over the weekend, writes the uh the this is who was uh the author is not mentioned.
Doesn't matter.
Over the weekend, I was impressed by this list, which was compiled by Amy Moran, M-O-R-I-N, psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker.
And she shared it in Life Hack, which is obviously a website.
And it impressed me enough that I would like to share her list here along with my thoughts on how each of these items is particularly applicable to entrepreneurs.
Now, I'm not gonna read all that.
I'm just gonna touch on the 13 things.
And again, they are compiled by Amy Moran, psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker.
The 13 things mentally tough, strong people avoid.
Number one, I I don't know if they're in any order, but I'll share them with you in the order in which they are published.
Number one, they do not waste time feeling sorry for themselves.
You do not see mentally strong people feeling sorry for their circumstances or dwelling on the way they have been mistreated.
They have learned to take responsibility for their actions and outcomes, and they have an inherent understanding of the fact that frequently life isn't fair, and they don't get bogged down in the unfairness of life.
Let me tell you something.
If these things are not in order, that that is a great one to be at number one.
I can't tell you.
That one dovetails with not giving people the power to offend you.
But you I think mentally tough people realize that they're not like most people, and it and to get all worried about being offended or gosh, this isn't fair.
It's just it's it's it's beneath people that don't have time for something like that.
Just the reality of life is that most people are not considerate.
Most people are doing nothing but thinking about themselves all the time.
And so it's that that's really, I think, of a key element of toughness.
Number two, mentally tough people do not give away their power.
And that is part and parcel of not being offended all the time.
Mentally strong people avoid giving others the power to make them feel inferior or bad.
Put up some boundaries and don't let that stuff affect you, especially if it isn't true.
You know, this is the thing.
One of the things that if I could wave a magic wand and change people, it would be don't worry about what people think of you, particularly people that don't know you.
People that don't know you, it doesn't matter what they think.
You and what you think of yourself is what matters.
And if somebody thinks things about you that aren't true, forget it.
Nothing you can do about it.
And it's a total waste of time to try to change that.
Number three, mentally strong people do not waste energy on things they cannot control.
Mentally strong people don't complain much about bad traffic, lost luggage, other people, they don't experience road rage.
You don't know what's going on in that car that may be driving erratically and running red lights.
Number four, mentally tough people do not worry about pleasing others.
There it is again.
That's a variation of not worrying about what other people think of you.
The thing is, you can't please other people.
Well, it's everybody else's responsibility to be happy.
Somebody's happiness is not your job.
Somebody being content and happy is not your responsibility.
And if you let somebody throw that off on you, you're gonna be miserable.
If you let, if you're in a relationship, in a romantic relationship, marriage, anywhere at work or whatever, and if you let somebody make you responsible for their happiness, your goose is cooked.
A, you're dealing with somebody that can't be happy anyway, and number two, you can't do it.
Happiness is an internal thing.
Contentment is an internal thing, and it results from the pursuit of it.
It doesn't just happen.
Number six, mentally tough people do not fear taking calculated risks.
Number seven, Mentally tough people do not dwell on the past.
Number eight, mentally tough people do not make the same mistakes over and over again.
Number nine, mentally tough people do not resent other people's success.
That's a toughie because human nature is such that I mean somebody that fails up, you're gonna resent them.
That's a tough one.
Number 10.
Mentally tough people do not give up after failure.
Number 11, mentally tough people do not fear time alone.
Mentally strong people enjoy and even treasure the time they have alone.
They use their downtime to reflect, to plan to be productive.
Most importantly, they don't depend on others to shore up their happiness and their moods.
They can be happy with others and they can be happy alone.
Number 12, mentally tough people do not think the world owes them anything.
And number 13, mentally tough people do not expect immediate results.
Mentally tough people do not expect immediate results.
Now I'm sure that Coco will find this story in Forbes.
I uh had it here since December the 10th.
And it's written by Cheryl Snap Connor, SNAPP Connor, frequent speaker and author on reputation and thought leadership.
And she's got a newsletter you can subscribe to, but that's who the author of this piece is.
So Coco find it, put it up there.
I heartily, as a really mentally tough guy, endorse.
What is so funny?
Are you disputing my assertion that I'm a mentally tough guy?
Okay.
Okay, I endorse all of these.
There's no question.
We'll be back.
Folks, that's it.
We are sadly out of busy broadcast time for today.
But uh we'll be back.
Unlike some, I, your host will be here next week, revved up and ready to go.
Hope you have a great weekend, folks.
Thanks so much for being with us.
Sit tight.
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