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Dec. 27, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 27, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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That's right, Rush took Christmas week off.
No great surprise there.
So a few of us try to hold on the Ford and share with you some thoughts and give everybody a forum.
See, we had Mark Stein was here yesterday, I believe Eric Erickson did Tuesday's program.
Mark Stein will be back Monday and Tuesday, and Rush will be here with the beginning of the new year.
Will 2014 be better than 2013 or not?
See, the way I look at it is 2014 is going to be necessary to prove the point that we were making in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013, and the problems that we have in 2014 will be necessary in order to solve the greater problem.
Anyway, that's as I see it.
It's Friday on the Rush Limbar program, and Friday is just about all.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Here's my version of working line Friday.
I come in armed with a stack of stuff that I claim rivals any stack of stuff that Rush has ever come up with.
We've got a lot of good stuff here, and you get to call in and talk besides on pretty much anything that you want to talk about that most nerdly allows you to talk about.
That's how it works, and we've had great calls so far on today's program.
I'm gonna tell a s the story that you're about to hear makes someone look very bad.
That would be me.
I did the program on Monday, and I'm doing it again on Friday.
Now, why I'm doing Monday and Friday as opposed to Monday and Tuesday or Thursday and Friday would take longer to explain than either I have or you want to waste time on.
But I left Monday and I do the program from New York, and I left Monday to go back to Milwaukee and then go up and see my family for Christmas, and I came back yesterday on Thursday to do today's program.
So Monday I'm racing out of the studio, which I always do to try to get my flight to get back to Milwaukee.
And I unplug my laptop, which I use during the program, and pull the power cord out and throw the whole thing into my briefcase and race off to the airport.
I get to LaGuardia, preparing to take my laptop out of my bag and put into this little bin that you're running through the thing for the security, and I find there's no laptop in here.
It's back at EIB in New York.
I'm at the airport.
I call the staff, and members of the staff were still here.
I think that's largely because the members of the staff who were working on Monday were primarily you weren't still here.
Both thirdly was long.
I think Bose somehow was out of the studio before the program ended, even though I saw him in here.
Literally was in two places at once.
They and we arranged that I just picked the laptop up on Friday.
It wouldn't make any sense to waste money by FedExing it out and getting it to Milwaukee on Tuesday because I'd be traveling to see my family who are elsewhere, so I'd be getting it on Thursday, only have to grab the thing and take it back in the plane and come back to New York.
So the laptop is here with me.
I managed to put the power cord in the briefcase, but not the laptop.
Now that's something that only an idiot would do, but it gets worse.
I come back to New York where the laptop is going to be waiting for me.
I show up here in the studio.
I forgot the power cord.
That's back in Milwaukee.
Now, we've established something here.
I'm clearly a functioning idiot.
I need a minder to take care of the I'm guessing Rush is important enough that there are probably people that wouldn't allow that to happen for him because they'd make sure that his laptop would be in his briefcase or whatever.
Well, I'm not at that status.
He does it himself.
Okay, so we're establishing also that not only is he superior to me in all ways, he's not a moron like I am.
Yeah.
So there's a point, though, about this.
I realize with this moronic to the point of almost embarrassing behavior of not being able to take the two implements to the computer, the laptop and the power cord, and keep them together to do the most listened to radio program in America.
Then I clearly Acting like a total moron.
You know what the difference between liberals and conservatives is?
It's not that we are incapable of being wrong.
It's that we know when we are wrong.
They do things dumber than I just described, and they don't even realize how stupid it is.
Everyone makes mistakes.
I think the thing that differentiates differ differentiates intelligent people from people who aren't intelligent is to recognize that it was a mistake after you did it.
My little laptop thing is really just Obamacare.
It was a stupid thing compounded upon a stupid thing, compounded on a stupid thing.
I know it was stupid.
I'm not going to try to rationalize and claim that it wasn't my fault, or that somehow I figured they'd have a power cord here that would work with my laptop.
Or, well, you know, it made sense for me to leave the laptop here rather than trotting it back and forth because I'm going to be back in New York on Friday.
I could make up all of those things and try to give you some sort of argument that it wasn't stupid.
Why?
What's the point?
Isn't intelligence cutting your losses?
Knowing that you've made an error, working your way through life and realizing that sometimes you thought something was going to work and it did not.
I think the country is gradually figuring that out about Obama.
But the way his approval rating dropped again, I think he's now around 39% of the disapprovals up to 54, which is a high and higher than where W. Bush was at this stage in his presidency.
All of it.
The deal with Iran.
I mentioned at the end of the last hour that Iran is going to continue to enrich uranium.
That's going to become apparent probably sometime next year.
Will Obama pull the rug under out from underneath his own deal and say it's done.
No, he's going to try to make it work.
He's not going to acknowledge that it was a mistake, that it was an error.
Liberals never admit their mistakes.
Look at the damage we did to urban education in America by persisting in forced school busing, which did nothing to improve the quality of education of black children.
It merely resulted in them being shuttled all over cities in a futile attempt to achieve racial balance, taking them out of the neighborhoods where their parents live, where their parents would have been available to take part in the school, be part of after school stuff, chased white children out of cities, out to the suburbs so that they wouldn't have to be bust into inner cities where their parents didn't want them to go.
This went on for decades.
You could tell two or three years in that it wasn't doing anything to achieve better education and it wasn't doing anything to improve racial relations in our country, but they persisted.
They couldn't acknowledge that they were wrong.
The Detroit Lions keep bringing back Jim Schwartz as their head coach.
Isn't that kind of the same thing?
Ah, he can't coach.
I want to talk about the UPS thing.
It depends on your perspective to decide whether or not this is a fiasco or what would a small fi Oh I know what a small fiasco is.
That'd be a glitch.
Was this a glitch?
A lot of these packages from online retailers, Amazon among them.
They didn't get delivered by Christmas, even though people ordered them and the thing said, do you want it by December 24th and get the two day or get the whatever?
Guaranteed, buy today and it's guaranteed for December.
Well, a lot of it didn't get there.
And there's all sorts of explanations we had offered for this.
I've got them in front of me.
This one's in the Wall Street Journal.
In the earliest hours of December 24th packages poured into United Parcel Services' main air hub in Louisville, Kentucky.
By the way, it's not Louisville.
It's Louisville, Louisville.
Do you know that?
You get a lot from me.
It's not worth much, but you get a lot when I did the show.
Employees responsible for sorting packages already deep into a one hundred one hundred hour week.
We're furiously getting them ready to be sent on to their destinations at airports around the country.
But dozens of other workers responsible for loading those packages into planes to be shipped out were left standing around idle because the unexpected glut of packages from last minute shoppers had swamped the company's air fleet.
The dearth of planes stranded a large volume of packages in Louisville in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Many of those that did make it out were shipped too late to make delivery trucks, pickup schedules, and were left sitting in warehouses not far from their destinations.
By sundown, UPS is forced to tell many Americans that the gifts they had ordered wouldn't arrive before Christmas is promised.
I just trying to visualize this distribution center in Louisville.
You got all these packages coming in.
They're coming in too fast.
They can't this is like I love Lucy.
This is like Lucy said Lucille ball of the conveyor belt and all the packages are coming and you can't get them out of time at Christmas is coming, and they're all falling off the thing, and then Ricky Ricardo, Lucy, you got some splaining to do.
I mean, that's what this was.
No, Amazon and UPS, there's there's refunds being offered, and they're gonna try to make it good and offer up all the goodwill.
Is it that big of a deal not to get a package on Christmas Day?
Snerdley, what do you think?
He claims no.
It's Christmas.
You've got your kid there, and he's expected to get his whatever we give them now.
His tablet.
Bo Snurdly says it'll get here.
He's got 33 other gifts.
You wanted to tell the whining kid to just shut up and stop his complaining, right?
Now, in the in the overall scheme of things, not getting your gift in time for Christmas.
It's not like you're living in South Sudan, where there's human carnage right now that nobody really knows what to do with.
You've got one tribe killing another tribe, and I know it is not fair to compare our problems with the fact that the rest of the world has such terrible human suffering.
But people act as though not getting one or two Christmas gifts on time is just another terrible, terrible outrage.
We want as a country to be victims.
We're happy when we can claim that we're screwed.
I'll get over it.
Now I understand.
Let's suppose you've got a loved one and they're really expecting it.
You want to give it to them.
But maybe the most interesting thing about this is how this happened.
Amazon and UPS and Walmart was another big one that didn't get some of their stuff out in time.
By the way, it's only a small percentage of almost everything they shipped made it, but some things didn't.
These are not stupid companies.
They work very hard on their projections.
They have a good idea of how much stuff is going to come up on any given.
I've used FedEx and UPS forever.
I I can't think of the last time I sent something FedEx that it didn't get there the next day.
I mean, they do a very, very good job, these companies.
They have it figured out.
Yet they didn't have this figured out.
There were way more last minute online purchases than they had anticipated.
If they didn't see this coming, something's going on here.
Clearly we are moving more to an online purchasing society.
Ninety-four percent of all items are still purchased in retail stores.
Online commerce is up to about six percent.
But there was something that happened this year, and I my own guess is that it has to do with smartphones and tablets, that it has gotten so easy to simply click an order, especially when you're under the gun at the last minute, that people have just changed their habits, and it's going to have a pretty significant impact on these companies in the future.
And I suspect that come next year, you're going to see changes made, an economic opportunity that is going to occur because of the last minute rush of people to get out stuff and buy online.
It's open line Friday.
We're going to talk to you folks in just a moment here.
1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Belling in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
You notice that the global warming people haven't been talking lately.
Just seems like they're quieting down.
I live in Wisconsin.
This has been like one of the worst December I can remember.
I landed Monday night flying back from New York.
I'm telling you, it was like landing at the North Pole.
I mean, all I saw was snow blowing around outside.
it was white, it was like below zero.
I was in New York on Sunday.
It was 70 degrees.
They were ready to crank up the global warming thing, except it lasted for like six hours.
Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh program, Newport Beach, California.
Cheryl, it's your turn on the Rush Show with Mark Belling.
Hi, Mark.
Hope you had a great Christmas.
It's a little warmer where I live than where you're what is it right now?
I'll get I know it's been Yeah, I know it's been real nice in Southern California the last few days.
Yeah, it's real pretty.
Um, you know, I think there's a point you're missing with this UPS business.
Remember when Obama made this analogy, well, what Apple doesn't work, you know, this and that.
If we have become so they're gonna he's gonna use this UPS thing as an excuse.
Oh, look, UPS didn't work.
We've the mainstream media has dumbed down people that think, well, Obamacare doesn't work.
We shouldn't get mad when things don't work.
We shouldn't get mad when things don't work.
Well UPS is paid to do a job.
If they're if their logistics is off, that's one thing, but but they're certainly.
So you're saying that Obama is going to explain all of the flaws of Obamacare, saying, look, everything isn't perfect.
Even UPS didn't get some get some gifts there in time.
You know, there's a difference though, Cheryl.
UPS is delivering all that stuff today.
It all got there yesterday and today.
Obamacare is never going to work.
The website still doesn't work.
People are going to be losing their insurance next year.
You're gonna have fewer people insured than we started off with.
You it's not like UPS is going to take all those you know, a few thousand packages that are left and dump them in the Atlantic Ocean.
They are going to get delivered.
Right.
There's no nobody believes that Obamacare is ever going to be fixed.
I agree with you.
I agree with you there, but what I'm trying to say is we as a nation, because this is such a tremendous disaster in Obamacare, we we shouldn't accept that UPS didn't work.
If we're people that that think that Obamacare is so great, that we we accept oh, the website doesn't work, but that's because so many people liked it.
UPS didn't work because there were so many we shouldn't accept that and and just blow it off that it's okay.
We should have an expectation.
Uh uh Bo Snerdly points out that UPS delivered a hundred and thirty-five million packages.
Uh I I and you know, in a two-day in a two to three day period may that actually was working, is his point.
I I I think this.
I think we become a society that assumes that everything is going to work.
We act as though we're terribly aggrieved when it doesn't, but we have set no standard at all for government.
We just assume that everything that government does is going to fail.
The thing that's funny about this story is the post office is bragging that they got all of their packages there.
But if it was a postal service problem, I don't think people would have been as surprised.
Even though the Postal Service is technically a private business, we wouldn't have been as surprised.
We just come to assume that government is going to be fouled up.
We come to assume that if you need government to fix a pothole in front of your house that it's going to take two to three weeks for anybody to show up.
We if Obamacare was something that we contracted entirely out to the private sector.
Let's suppose we used to have health insurance.
Everybody was getting health insurance through the government, and we instead switched it all out, and Obamacare was actually private health care, and all the insurance companies in America set up their own website without any federal involvement, and it did not work.
People would have been angrier.
They would have been madder at the private sector.
We set such a low bar for government that I actually think that's one of the reasons he's getting something of a pass on all of this.
I understand your point that we should demand that things work all the time.
I just think that what happened with UPS cannot be declared a failure.
It is a failure to the extent that they're taking a PR hit and they're going to have to spend some money to make to make it work.
But Obamacare is is part of part of the deal is that when you turn something over to government, it never is going to work.
It's always followed up.
Obamacare is the norm when it comes to government operation of anything.
There's a reason why the UPS story is news, and that is because it was unexpected.
Usually when you order something and they say it's going to be there for Christmas, it is there.
By the way, did you get all of your stuff?
Did you order anything online?
Yeah, I I had problems with UPS.
I know I knew it.
You got your But here's the other thing.
What didn't show up, Cheryl, what didn't show up.
Some gifts for my nieces.
Yeah.
Yeah, but they lived.
It's not like they didn't have.
But the last point I wanted to make, you hear to a lesser extent about FedEx having problems.
FedEx is not a union shop.
I just wanted to add that.
I yeah, I don't know if that's the problem.
UPS is saying that it would there were more gifts shipped at the last minute than they were expecting.
Part of the problem was also Amazon was off on their projections too.
They got a little bit more business than they were expecting.
I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a consequence for this.
What I am saying, though, is this that when you've got a problem like this in the private sector, they immediately fess up and acknowledge that there was a problem.
They say that we are going to try to do better, and I'm sure that they're going to be working as hard as they can to make sure that next Christmas that this does not happen.
Is there anyone who perceives that one year from now that Obamacare is going to be working any better than the mess that we're seeing now?
I think that answer is no.
Open line Friday, I'm Mark Bellingham for Rush.
Mark Stein's going to be in next week.
No Chris's bumper music probably from him, right?
This is a this is aberrational.
I also think it's aberrational that me, a guest host, was able to tell the staff I wanted to do something and they actually did it.
That was aberrational also.
I actually do get tremendous support here.
And I shouldn't sound unappreciative.
I am appreciative.
Think Russia's appreciative.
He never thanks you guys.
He's way tougher on you guys than I am, isn't he?
I mean, I hear I I'm a listener to the program.
I'm a fan the same as anyone else.
You just presume he appreciates you.
Uh let's go to the phones.
It's open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh program.
My name is Mark Belling.
Let's go to uh is it I think Brainerd, Minnesota.
Brainerd, that uh whatever.
Uh Paul, you're on the uh Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Go ahead, Paul.
Thanks, Mark, for thanks, Mark, for taking my call and happy new year to you.
Thank you.
Uh I just uh I I've just tuned in the last 15 or 20 minutes, and I've got a great story about my Amazon shipment.
Uh and I think I'm in the majority.
On Saturday evening, my uh wife let me know that she was unable to find a gift at the local stores.
And I got online and within about 20 minutes, I had the gift successfully ordered.
They promised delivery by December 24th, and I had it by two o'clock in the afternoon on the 23rd by UPS.
Yeah, and I mean people who are complaining about what happened, I understand that buying a Christmas present and getting it there is a big deal.
I don't think we should be trashing the online retailers of America and the delivery services because they got overwhelmed and they screwed up.
This happens constantly in the regular airline business.
Stuff happens, they overbook the plane, some people are bumped, there are delays, there's bad weather, and things don't get there.
For for every one of the failure stories, there's probably a lot of it uh a lot of success stories.
The reason I brought it up in the first place is that I think it's interesting that this trend that we've been seeing toward people buying online is now becoming something of an avalanche that took even the shipping companies, UPS and to a lesser extent FedEx by surprise and took the biggest online retailer of all, Amazon by surprise as well.
I don't think – I think – I want to make one more point about this.
There are consequences for Amazon and FedEx.
They're giving gift certificates to people who didn't get gifts on time.
What are we going to get out of Obamacare?
Is there going to be a refund on that?
We're not going to get anything.
There's probably somebody over at Amazon who's got a lot of explaining to do to his bosses about how this happened, and probably somebody in logistics at UPS is called on the carpet as well.
Has Kathleen Sabillius ever been called on the carpet?
It is a pretty good metaphor.
We almost expect and presume Obamacare to be a disaster.
We are surprised when Amazon and UPS don't perform perfectly.
There's there's probably a lesson in all of that.
Thank you for the call, Paul.
I mentioned earlier Twitter.
I don't understand this.
And when I say I don't understand this, I'm not criticizing.
I don't understand it.
The stock of Twitter Will not stop going up.
It's gone up 182% since the IPO in November.
It's up 76% this month.
I don't know what the stock did today, but based on yesterday's close, the market capitalization of Twitter is now 40 billion dollars.
I was hoping somebody who owns stock in Twitter and is enthusiastic about it could explain this to me because Twitter is losing money.
It's not a profitable company.
For the quarter and the year, they are showing a loss.
I look at Twitter and I can't figure out how they're going to make any money.
The advertising they sell, it's almost impossible to even notice the ads that you see on Twitter.
Almost everybody who's using Twitter now is using it on the smartphone.
The ad that's in there is tiny.
Furthermore, the people that are on Twitter, all they do is scroll they're not going to slow down for an ad.
So what's the economic model that's going to lead this company to make money?
But investors keep buying the stock.
Now maybe they keep buying it because it keeps going up.
And an IPO that is up 182% in two months.
Again, I'm the idiot who didn't buy the stock.
I'm a little bit of a traditionalist.
I look at a company that's showing no profits and I'm figuring, well, maybe they need to show that they can make this company work.
They have lots of users.
They just aren't making more money than they're spending on those people.
The only thing that makes sense to me as to why Twitter would have value to anyone is if you just accept that what Twitter is is the NSA.
The thing that Twitter has that is of value is they have all of these tweets.
They know, because people are posting them, they know about everything that anyone of their users says.
And that probably has tremendous value to people who want to know who's into football or ice skating or anything else that an advertiser might sell.
It's the ultimate spy.
The NSA was running around grabbing all of these files and requesting all of these phone records.
By the way, a judge in New York today ruled that what the NSA was doing is legal.
So you have conflicting rulings from different federal judges in different jurisdictions.
This is going to go to the United States Supreme Court.
What Twitter is, is the NSA.
And what they are developing is a database on virtually everyone.
They can market that and share those profiles then with advertisers who may use it later on.
But the actual process of going on Twitter and tweeting is something that doesn't make anyone any money hardly ever.
What they are is one massive giant data mine in which people are literally turning themselves in by sharing all of this stuff.
That Twitter then has the ability to compile and sell.
I don't know if Twitter, like some of the other social networking, is tracking you when you are not on Twitter.
What I do know is that Twitter is filled with tweets.
And these tweets are often about things that develop a profile for an advertiser, and that's gotta be the reason that people see value in it.
Do you tweet?
When's the last time you saw an ad on your Twitter?
You haven't used it in a while.
I I don't tweet.
We have an account for my program.
I have an account that I use for the sole purpose of reading the tweets of other people, but I haven't ever I can't think of the last time I saw an ad on there.
I can't think of the last time somebody sent me an ad on Twitter.
I get why I don't tweet, but I read other people's tweets.
I read in my horse racing partnership.
There's people in horse racing that are tweeting all the time.
They kind of have interesting things to say.
I'll be on that stuff and I'll be scrolling around.
Plus, Twitter sends me emails all the time.
You want to read this, this tweet, you might want to read that one.
The way I look at it in terms of my tweeting, I am struggling my entire career with each program to keep myself out of trouble for saying something stupid.
I do not need to increase the output of stuff that I'm putting out there.
Have you seen anyone who's ever tweeted where it didn't come back?
I take that back.
Many people have tweeted and there's never been a downside for them.
But when if somebody in the Last two years has gone under in scandal, isn't it always because of something that they've tweeted?
It's every other day.
Plus, isn't this enough?
If I get to do the Rush Limbaugh program with millions and millions and millions of listeners, do I really need to put out a tweet to the handful of goofs that want to follow what I have to say on Twitter?
Bo Snerdly says it's like political crack.
How many people would follow me if I actually put things out there?
Hundreds of thousands.
Everything I have to say, I'm spilling out here on the program.
There's nothing most there you think there's something more.
Okay, fine.
There's gonna be a big upset this weekend in the NFL.
Somebody's gonna be knocked out of the playoffs that no one anticipates it's gonna be shocking.
I haven't figured out who it is yet.
Could Atlanta be Carolina?
Everybody be shocked by that.
There's going to be an upset.
Somebody's going there's gonna be a giant surprise.
Somebody's gonna end up at the playoffs that I that isn't expected.
You know, if that occurred to me, maybe I'd put out that tweet.
Maybe I'd do that.
Who would really care?
Uh to the phones.
Fran and Wichita, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hi, Mark.
Hey, I think you're missing the vote on Obamacare.
Uh, because I don't believe Obama had a darn thing to do with uh with the Affordable Care Act that was written.
I think it was these cohorts.
But on top of that, the supposedly smart people that are in Congress are the ones that need to be held accountable because they voted for it without even reading it.
And then on top of that, I haven't heard anything about a special fund being set up or a special account being set up for the monies that are coming in from Obamacare.
And my hench is that Congress is going to rape those funds just like they raped the Social Security fund.
The problem is that those funds that are coming in aren't going to be sufficient.
You can't raid something that doesn't exist.
I I actually think just the opposite.
I think that there are going to be so few sign-ups of younger, healthy people that you're going to have really a program that ends up traumatically underfunded.
The people who are signing up for health insurance under the exchanges and the people that are going to that are uh now being added to Medicaid, they're going to become heavy users.
These are people who need insurance, who need health care.
That's why they've been willing to put up with the process of signing up for Obamacare.
It is younger people who are seeing these really expensive quotes, even for the bronze plan, and also younger people who have enough of an income that they aren't getting much of a subsidy.
The healthy people, they're going to stay out.
So I don't think that there's going to be this trough of funds that are out there.
I think that Obamacare is going to end up very, very short, that the insurers are going to ask for all sorts of relief because they're not making enough money, and Obamacare is going to add to the deficit, and they're going to have to look to raise even more taxes.
As for your point about the Congress, clearly, everybody who voted for this needs to be held accountable.
As for calling it Obamacare, if Barack Obama had not been elected president of the United States in 2008, we wouldn't have this.
Furthermore, it was created by his administration, by his people, the people he put in power to take his name off of it and not hold him accountable for this nightmare is not something that I'm willing to do.
If the thing had turned out to be a glorious success, you know who'd be taking all the credit for it.
Thank you for the call.
My name is Mark Belling.
It's Open Mind Friday on the Rush Limbaugh program.
I got this from Bo Snerdly.
New York City police say an armed iPhone thief was shot twice by police and died from chest wounds.
This occurred yesterday.
The altercation came after police on routine patrol were waved down by a 24-year-old man who said his iPhone and cash were stolen in the vestibule of a bank by a man in his forties.
Police said an officer shot the man twice in the chest after several officers closed in on him and the Bronx spotting a gun in his hand.
Police say they did recover a loaded.38 caliber handgun and the stolen iPhone from him.
I think he was stealing the 5S or the 5C.
The 5S is the...
I hope it wasn't the four.
They're giving those away almost for free now with the contract.
Hope he knew what he was doing.
To Andover, Kansas, Bob, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Thank you, Mark.
And I hope you had a blessed and merry Christmas and hope that the New Year is is better than this one was for you.
I had a very nice Christmas, and we hope that every year is going to be wonderful.
Yeah, I'm right.
It's Aerosmith.
No, I've never heard of Aerosmith.
Well the Beach Boys.
The Beach Boys are up there.
Brian Wilson was a genius.
And the treasure trove of music that they put out in the 60s and the early 70s was remarkable.
I Yeah, Rock and Rolls Rock and Roll stopped in the middle sixties.
No, it didn't.
No, it didn't.
Have you ever listened to you two?
See, here's the pro here's the problem with old goats like you and me, Bob.
We appreciate the 1960s.
We're not going to be able to do that.
I know.
Here the pro the problem with guys like us who keep listening to the exact same music that we listened to when we were when we are young is we become as closed-minded as the people out there on the left who presume that there's nothing good that ever could have been done.
I do think that the 60s and the 70s were the creative peak of rock and roll, but to pretend that Springsteen didn't exist and to pretend that some bands like the Rolling Stones didn't produce great things after that, or to ignore your s or ignore the opportunity to listen to Journey, that's as musically and culturally bigoted as people who say that they're never going to listen to country music because they think that it's too twangy.
Well, look what they've missed out on.
They're missing out right now on Carrie Underwood.
There's a lot of great stuff that are out there.
The reason I like Aero, by the way, you should know who how old are you, Bob?
Bob's still there?
I'm only 67.
Well, you know what?
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith's almost as old as you.
I think he's 64.
So they're not they're not as like young and newfangled as you may happen to think that they are.
They're just a great, great American rock and roll band who's stuck together with the original five members literally forever.
They put on a great show and their stuff's really good.
Um Aerosmith Beach Boys.
You guys have not come up with an alternative.
Chicago.
Oh man.
Once they started doing the ballads, Chicago Chicago.
The Jim Yeah, Jimmy Jimi Hendrix was truly creative.
He was outstanding.
There's no doubt about that.
Uh Jimi Hendricks, for better or for worse, didn't last very long.
He died.
Aerosmith mounted.
Cold blood.
Cold blood.
You don't mean cold play, cold blood.
You're a weirdo.
Uh, my name is Mark Belly.
I'm sitting in uh believe it or not, this is still the Rush Limbaugh program on the end.
Little Aerosmith to bring us out.
The end of the Christmas bumper music.
That's how we end the week.
Hope everybody had a great Christmas week, great Christmas season, and a great new year.
Mark Stein is going to be here at the beginning of the week, and at the beginning of the year, which is now very very soon.
Russia's going to be back.
We finally found out what it takes to get someone charged with the hate crime for taking part in the knockout game.
Conrad Barrett, Houston.
White guy sucker punched a black guy.
That's what makes it, I guess, a hate crime.
United States Tax Court rules against an MBA student seeking to deduct his business school tuition, claiming it was a legitimate business expense.
The tax court says just trying to get in business is not a legitimate business expense.
You actually have to be in business.
This is a good one.
You know that website for employees that McDonald's had that encourages you to be a good person and financial planning and all that stuff.
healthful living.
The Resource Center encouraged people not to eat a lot of fast food.
Don't eat cheeseburgers and fries all the time.
This was McDonald's telling their employees how to live more healthful lives.
I've got this one from today's Wall Street Journal.
McDonald's removes an employee website.
Somebody else has some explaining to do.
The difference between McDonald's and Obama is McDonald's knows when it's screwed up.
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