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March 9, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 9, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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I'm here for one day because Russia's going to be back tomorrow.
In the first hour of today's program, I spent a fair amount of time talking about the whole Hillary.
I shouldn't have to set up an email thing.
And I made a comment that she's just out of sync with the entire world in which everybody now is tweeting and Facebooking.
Their every last thought.
I want to expand on that a moment here.
I was reading a story on the plane.
I'm in New York.
On the plane from Milwaukee to New York.
I was reading a story in The Economist about the remarkable growth of smartphones.
Some of these numbers are incredible.
This is from the Economist Magazine.
There are two billion people around the world using smartphones that have an internet connection and a touch screen or something similar as an interface.
By the end of the decade, that number looks set to double to just over four billion.
What's the global population right now?
Something like eight?
Half the people on the planet are going to have a smartphone.
That's the fastest growth of any commodity ever.
And what are we doing with them?
Well, some people are playing games, some people are on the internet, some people are emailing all the stuff that people are doing with their smartphones.
But one thing that we know for sure that they're doing is that they are using them to talk without speaking.
People have wondered whether or not Facebook, Twitter, other social media would eventually die off.
Right now they're bigger than ever.
There are more social media communications going on now than ever before.
You've got some people that are desperate to avoid any type of paper trail on anything that they have ever said or done, Hillary, and others that are making their entire world one giant paper trail.
Except it's not paper, it's in cyberspace and is going to linger out there and hang around forever.
In a moment I'm going to get to the Kurt Schilling story, which I think is really fascinating.
You have a lot of Americans who say that they are terrified of a government that's out there spying on them and monitoring them, and is the NSA going too far.
But the reality seems to be that the majority of us want the world to know what we're doing.
You go to the grocery store, well, let's tweet it, let's post it on Facebook.
Try to get somebody to pull their head away from Facebook.
People are on Facebook when they're driving.
They're tweeting when they're driving.
What this has done, the explosion of the smartphone, the explosion of social media, which the two things come together.
Facebook was big, but was never as big as it is now that there are smartphones.
Same thing with Twitter.
You don't have to lug a computer around in order to put out your tweet.
You can just do it on your phone.
It's as easy as texting.
What this has done is it has given everyone a voice.
That's mostly good, but partly bad and a little scary.
It wasn't that long ago, and when I say not that long ago, like 15 years, that the only people who had the community the ability to communicate to a broad audience was the mainstream media.
You had newspapers, you had television, you had radio, that was it.
Even in the early days of the web, there wasn't much opportunity for an individual to put their own stuff out there.
Now, everyone has an opinion, and every opinion can be heard.
There are no filters.
One of the first major breakthroughs was conservative talk radio.
We finally broke through and stopped that monopoly that the mainstream media had on everything.
Rush started a revolution.
Finally, alternative points of view were going to be heard.
Now Rush has a large infrastructure, EIB, what you're listening to me on right now.
But social media does at least allow anybody who wants to to get their stuff out there.
And there's a remarkable amount of just indiscriminate rantings.
Here's what I want to tee up.
I talked to friends of mine who have kids.
They say they are astonished by what kids put on Facebook.
Pictures of themselves smoking pot.
Incredibly blunt commentaries about other people.
People ripping their bosses.
They're putting this on Facebook, which anybody can read.
Well, only my Facebook friends can see it.
Yeah, right.
Or they're tweeting their thoughts.
Just thinking that all of this can be thrown out there without any consequence or ramification.
Hillary's terrified that somebody's going to see an email that she wrote.
You have people that are laying things out that will survive for 20, 30, 40, and 50 years.
Imagine what opposition research and politics is going to be in 15 years.
Go back and find every tweet, every post, every social media comment that anyone ever made.
Employers researching employees now, one of the first things they do is they go through their social media history.
Are there any red flags?
What is this person saying?
Oh my goodness, he can't have this.
Let me talk for a moment about the Kurt Schilling story.
This, depending on your perspective, is a great story.
Kurt Schilling's former baseball pitcher.
Spent most of his career with the Phillies.
He put out a tweet congratulating his daughter.
She's going to college, she's got a scholarship, and she's going to be pitching for a school softball team.
She was accepted to some university called Salve Regina University in Rhode Island.
And Kurt Schilling is proud of his daughter, Gabby, said she's going to be a pitcher on the softball team.
He tweeted that in his Twitter account.
Apparently a lot of people are following Kurt Schilling's Twitter account.
Why?
I don't know.
But they did.
All of a sudden, after the posting, vile, vulgar comments kept coming and coming and coming about Schilling, about his daughter, about things that people would like to do sexually to his daughter.
Remarkable stuff.
Vicious.
Mean spirited.
Schilling said his daughter read some of them and she was crushed.
Kids overreact to postings on social media.
Schilling's daughter is 17 years old.
She reads people saying these things about her.
Here's Schilling thinking he can just throw this out there, and everybody's going to find, oh, isn't it wonderful?
Kurt's proud of his daughter.
His daughter's going to be a pitcher, his daughter's going to college.
But instead, the response is one vulgar comment after another after another after another.
From people using their Twitter handles.
This has happened to a lot of people.
The bullying that goes on in social media is overwhelming.
The thing of it is, Kurt Schilling did something that I haven't heard anybody do before.
He decided that he was going to get back at the people who posted these comments.
He said he wrote an essay about it.
57 drafts, in which he talked about the accountability of the things that people put out there on social media.
So he took some of the handles of people who posted the really offensive stuff, started Googling them.
And he said it was real easy in most cases to find out who it was that posted these things.
That their names are connected somewhere else on the web with their actual identity.
So he outed some of these people.
One of them who posted vulgar comments about his daughter is a guy named Adam Nagel.
He's a student at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey.
He's been suspended from school.
Another guy is a part-time ticket seller for the New York Yankees.
Kind of perfect.
They've canned him.
Schilling says he's got the other identities as well.
He's only named those few that had the most vulgar comments.
I don't know.
What do you think?
Did he do the wrong thing?
Did Kurt Schilling do the wrong thing by outing the people who posted those things?
They now have that following them around.
Schilling said, look, the people who I outed, you Google their name ten years from now, this is going to come up that they wrote this about my daughter 20 years from now, 30 years from now.
Did the people who made those posts ever consider the possibility that the whole world would know they did it?
Or did they just figure I'm going to take my shot?
Oh, Schilling's proud of his daughter, I'm going to make my crude comment, fire it away, and that'll be the end of it.
Does anybody who posts on social media consider that they can't ever take it back?
That they can't ever retract it.
You Google somebody if it's not a prominent person.
The only hits that are ever going to come up other than, you know, radars and tell you us they'll let you find the person's address.
Other than that, the only thing that's going to come out is a blog posting or a news story, something like that.
Try to get rid of that stuff.
Try to del try to change your Google profile.
Try to change what happens when your name is Google.
You can't.
Yet people are posting this stuff without thinking about it.
Somebody 24, 25, 26 years old has a chip on their shoulder.
Rips corporate America.
Rips women, rips a racial minority, makes a social media post.
You understand how unemployable that person's just made himself.
Does he understand it?
One of the takeaways that you're getting from the media on the Curt Schilling story was, this is the Twitter universe, or the Twitterverse, the social media world, coming into the real world.
Twitter is the real world.
People are putting all of this stuff out there and they think it's some sort of parallel universe.
Well, these are the things that I say on Twitter, these are the things I say on Facebook.
And then there's my actual life.
No, Twitter is your actual life.
It's real, it's there.
It's intersecting with the world.
When you have a job like mine, when you have a job like Rush's.
We're constantly sitting here.
You know, you try to throw these things out, you try to make a good point, you try to be humorous.
Are you gonna say something that people are gonna twist in their attempts to destroy you?
You're always on guard.
You're always on guard because we know that the vultures are out there looking for something that they can use to try to discredit you.
But people that are posting on Facebook aren't thinking about that.
They're trying to be clever.
Or they figure I have a forum, I'm gonna say what I believe.
But they may not be in a position to just throw that off and say it didn't really matter when somebody judges them on their basis of it.
So there's that.
Then there's the revolution that's going on in how people meet one another.
I was talking, can I both nerdly, can I tell the audience that you did not know what Tinder is?
I can.
He's proud of it.
I was talking to most thirdly in show prep for today's program.
And I said, I want to talk about Tinder.
What's that?
Tinder has millions of people who have signed up for it.
Didn't even exist a couple of years ago.
This is how people are meeting one another now.
If you don't know what Tinder is, it's gonna blow you away.
But it is here, it is the present, it is our reality.
And I don't know that it's very healthy.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush.
I think the combination of the internet and the smartphone is more revolutionary, more transformative than even television itself.
The two are made for one another.
I mentioned coming out of the uh going into the break, Tinder.
There's another one called Grindr, which is like the X-rated version of Kinder, and Tinder's kind of the X-rated version of Match.com.
You know, we've had these websites, online dating.
Match.com's a big one, eHarmony, a few others.
Then this app came around.
It's literally only two or three years old called Tinder.
I learned about it reading an article about two months ago in Forbes magazine.
This guy came up with an idea to use the ability of the GPS on your phone to create an instant social dating site.
Here's how Tinder works.
You post your photo and a short profile.
You have to do that.
And then your GPS sets you up so that you see every, let's suppose you're looking to meet women.
Your GPS will locate all of the other women that have posted Kinder profiles in your area, and now you get all of their pictures in their profiles.
You use your smartphone.
If you sweep to the right, that means you save it.
You sweep to the left, you've discarded.
Everybody that you sweep to the right, that person now knows that you okayed them.
They then can get back to you often instantly, and you hook up right then and there.
You can start chatting through whatever form you want, Facebook, Twitter, whatever, and could be texting.
You communicate right away.
Tinder has a mechanism that allows you to start talking right on their site to this person that you quote met.
Thirty million people are on it.
Take that back.
Thirty million people a day use it.
Thirty million a day.
And most people haven't even heard of it.
Here's another number.
The 30 million people a day who use it make about one billion swipes.
One billion swipes.
What it's perfect for, and you can decide whether or not you think this is good, the direction we're going, is for people who then positively hook up.
Somebody sweeps somebody to the right, that person finds out about it, they see their profile.
Okay, bing, contact one another.
Let's meet now, 30 minutes from now, here.
And they do.
It's used a lot for sex.
It's an immediate hookup application.
You don't have to go through the rig of a roll of anything.
There's no one-on-one contact.
You just agree to meet based entirely on seeing the photo and the short profile.
Grinder is the same thing, except they don't even make any pretext that this is about relationships.
Grindr is set up just for the purpose of hooking up to have sex right now.
These apps are huge.
In the past, to start a business and to get something out that the people would learn about, you'd have to spend a fortune in advertising.
Startup businesses are very, very hard.
You start a small company, you hope to grow, get a few more locations, hope to get a budget and go out and do advertising.
You can create an app right now, and by word of mouth, this stuff just spreads like wildfire.
Tinder is not yet public, but its potential value is in the billions and billions of dollars.
This stuff is so new that we can't even process it yet.
You run the risk of sounding incredibly dated when you're skeptical of this stuff, but I wonder where all of this is leading.
Is it healthy that more relationships are going to be started now by people who meet just for the purpose of having sex right now?
Is it healthy that people are choosing to meet one another just by looking at a picture on a phone?
Now you could say, well, it's certainly better than the way we've done it in the past.
Hope you bump into somebody at a bar, hope you see somebody at work.
This is creating at least a filter where there's not much risk.
The beautiful thing from the creators of Tinder's perspective is this eliminates rejection.
The person doesn't know that you swiped them to the left.
They only know if you swipe them to the right.
The only people that you're going to know about are people who expressed an interest in you because they swept your profile to the right.
Now I'm sure you got a lot of losers out there.
They're going to sweep everybody to the right and hope that somebody's willing to bite.
Some dork I know, nobody's interested in me.
I'll just shove them all over to the right and hope that somebody's going to grab onto me.
It's out there.
It's real.
It's extremely common, and these things are happening faster than most people are even aware of.
I want to get your reaction to all of it.
1800-282-2882 is the Rush Limbaugh phone number, and my name is Mark Belling.
We're talking about how social media and smartphones are changing everything in this world.
People posting things out there, trying to destroy other people's lives, not even conscious that it may be a self-destructive act.
The way that how we meet one another is radically changing.
By the way, I checked the uh history of Tinder.
Tinder was created less than three years ago by some college students.
And now, as I said, 30 million people use it every day.
Bro Snerdley's demanding to know exactly what grinder is.
Grinder, I I did have to Google that to make sure.
Grindr is mostly for gay men.
It's like Tinder only.
Let's just not have to mess with all the people that we're not interested in.
It's only gay men.
These are immediate sexual hookup apps that tens of millions of people are using.
I don't think, given how social media has grown, that it is an exaggeration to say that in our country, the United States, within two or three years, more people may meet others for the first time via Tinder than any other way.
I think that's possible.
Let's go to the phones and start talking about some of this stuff.
South Holland, Illinois, and Tom Tom, you're on EIB with Mark Belling.
Good morning, Mary.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
I think Kurt is absolutely correct in what he did.
Wish more people would do that, because if they did, it might change the face of the Twitters or other social media uh entities and uh out the people that decide that they want to, for whatever reason, unnecessarily attack people.
My mother used to say, and she was correct.
Let nothing come out of your mouth that you wouldn't be ashamed to see on the front pages of tomorrow's newspaper.
Yeah, the thing that's weird about social media is that people don't seem to connect that front page of the newspaper, negative attention with what with what they post.
They almost think it's something that they can put out there as if they're saying in private, whereas what they're actually doing it is advertising it to the rest of the world permanently, but they don't see it that way.
There are two types of people that are posting on Twitter.
Some just put out their actual name and they're not even attempting to hide who it is that they are, and there are others that will create some mysterious handle in which it may not be as easy to figure out what your identity was.
But Schilling said it wasn't hard at all.
He said he started going through these Twitter handles and Googling them, and instantly he was able to come up with the identities of almost everyone.
He said he contacted nine people initially, those that apologized for what they did.
He decided not to publicize those that didn't.
He went and posted their names on his blog, and he's put their identities out there, and very quickly there was a major ramification for them.
And I suspect they're probably shocked.
They're shocked that this shot that they took, this vulgar shot that they took, is actually coming back and haunting them in their actual life because they feel their real life is somehow different than whatever they put out in cyberspace, even though cyberspace now is our life.
You know what goes around and comes around, Kurt?
You've seen Gone with the Wind, correct?
Yeah.
You're a member in the library scene?
No.
No, I actually don't.
You're not really uh ashamed that you're uh are uh did a wrong deed.
You're just very ashamed that you got caught.
Yeah, well, and that and that's the thing that I think thanks for the call.
That's the thing that's being introduced right now with with regard to social media.
I talk to people who say their friends kids have on their Facebook profile a picture of them standing there with a joint in their hand.
Do they not think that's going to matter?
What?
Half the employers in America right now drug test?
What have you just done?
Well, I think it's cool to post that.
Nobody's ever really going to notice.
Everybody's checking you out on social media.
Everybody.
Part of the world is trying to live in privacy.
The other part is trying to advertise their entire life.
Let's go to uh Melbourne, Florida, and Saul.
Saul, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Yes, thank you very much, Mark, for your time.
Uh I'm responding in a couple different ways.
Uh the main thing is you're asking the public, why are these people doing this?
They want to do it.
They want to be heard.
It's why why do some people go out on these killing ranges and and kill other people?
Because they want to be in the media.
They don't care whether they go to jail or not.
That's the they don't care about the consequences.
People do want to get discovered.
I'm working on a television show right now.
I'm not allowed to give you my website, but I can read you something from it.
Well, I don't want I don't want you to read anything, but I want to thanks for the call.
I want to respond to your point.
He makes, I think, a good point.
People are trying to get attention.
I would if you go back and you watch some of the old TV shows from the 60s and the 70s that they had a live studio audience, like say the Ed Sullivan show, when they put the or even um what was Monty Hall's show out?
Let's make a deal.
When they would pan the audience, you'd see people kind of nervously pointing toward the monitors, saying, Oh, look, I'm on television, and they were nervous and they were kind of shy about it, and they're oh my goodness, I'm on television and they're nudging the person next to them.
Now, you go to a ball game, if the cameras turn on the crowd, people are knocking one another over in order to get on TV.
You would have thought that what with video being omnipresent, who hasn't been on television at least once with their face, everyone has, with video being omnipresent, with social media and everything else, and so many different ways for us to get attention that we wouldn't be as attention starved as we are.
But it's even more so.
Most people have a desperate need to be seen and to be heard.
That's not all bad.
A lot of people have a lot of interesting things to offer.
It's one of the reasons the talk radio exists.
You're giving voice to people who otherwise would not have been heard.
But much of what is being put out there is very counterproductive and it has a long-term ramification to it.
To Greenfield, Ohio, Todd, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program with me, Mark Belling.
Yes, thank you for taking my call.
Um, you're asking earlier if these kind of apps really have a hurtful effect on relationships.
And I would say it already has, just because of the fact that we're talking about relationships in the context of these apps.
Because we're talking about uh, you know, a real relationship takes time and effort, and here we're talking about a hookup.
This isn't a relationship to begin with.
So it's already had an effect on the way we redefine and how we think about the word relationship to begin with.
That's correct.
The old way, in other words, the way for all of human beings until a few years ago was to somehow have to come into contact with another person, and then things would happen.
Sometimes they would happen fast, sometimes they would be longer, but you would meet someone and something would kick in.
We use the term chemistry, it can be attraction, it can be whatever it is.
You when uh when online dating came in, it changed it sort of, but it was still kind of the same thing because you would check someone out, and people who are on, you know, I uh you know, as a single guy, I know a lot of people who have told me about their experiences on sites like Match.com, something I've never done and can't imagine ever doing, but they would say, you know, we have to go back and forth, and there's a lot of emailing, and then maybe after a you know, sixteen or seventeen emails, you'd end up making a telephone conversation.
These apps are aimed at meeting that person now.
The way Tinder works is they take your Facebook profile, and everybody who's within, you can set one mile, three miles, whatever it is within you immediately comes up, and you simply decide whether or not you want to meet them.
If that person is signed up for Tinder, they immediately know that you just indicated that you're interested in meeting, and then they do meet, and it's your right for the purpose of hooking up.
Well, that is now the way that they've met.
How are relationships going to be changed permanently if the way you met someone was the 30 minutes after meeting that you go off and have sex?
I mean, it just changes the entire human dynamic.
You're not talking anymore about people having to go to bars, you're not talking about people meeting Friends in church.
You're not talking about at work.
None of those things.
Instead, let's just use our app, hook up and see what happens after that.
The whole dynamic, the whole process, permanently changed.
Thanks for the call.
I thought he was going to say something else about that.
I know that is what happens.
Long witted talk show host goes on and on and on and on, waits for the caller to respond, and the call in the talk show host has lulled the caller in to death.
No, it's a real thing.
I have a story about this.
I was at Can I name the name of the bar or not?
I can.
I was at Gulfstream Park, which is the racetrack between Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
They've got all these bars and nightlife places surrounding it, and I was This is in December.
Places called, I think the Yard House.
Anyway, I'm sitting at the bar eating dinner.
And there's a woman sitting next to me, and she keeps this place is huge, by the way.
She keeps looking up and looking up and looking up, and she's gansling around, and a guy walks in, and there's sort of the eye contact, and the guy comes over.
Are you yeah and you?
It's impossible for me not to overhear this because she's next to me.
They met on Tinder.
I heard the conversation.
She swiped him on her phone when she got in to the bar.
She sat down, she ordered a drink, he responded, he was there within 30 minutes.
These people were both in their forties.
So here's a woman.
She's interested in meeting someone that night, whether it's sexual or whether it's companionship or whether it's let's just see what happens.
Within 30 minutes, she met someone that she had never met before.
She didn't have to just take the pool of this large bar and restaurant that we're in.
She took the entire pool of the people who signed up for Tinder.
So they were talking to one another.
It then became the same kind of conversation.
And like I said, I'm just hearing this while I'm eating my chicken and rice dinner or whatever it was that I had.
They're having the kinds of conversations that usually people have when they meet in a bar.
Okay, what about this?
What about that?
But hanging over them was the reality that the only reason they both swiped one another is they thought they were good looking enough for you know what.
That's gonna be what?
10% of hookups?
Twenty?
Thirty?
And you can look down your nose at it, which I sort of am doing.
But maybe it is healthier than going into a bar and approaching somebody and talking like a dork.
Some people think that it's a way of being extremely proactive.
It does change the nature, though, of how we meet one another.
The number of things in our world in with that are going to be completely different because of smartphones, almost incalculable.
As I said, I was reading the story in The Economist.
They go into Tinder and Grinder, they come up with the numbers about how fast these things are growing.
They're growing because a lot of people think they're really cool, and a lot of people prefer to live their lives this way.
The other part of the topic that I've been throwing out here, the ramifications of social media posts.
I was talking to an employee, a guy who owns a fast food franchise in Milwaukee.
In fact, he emailed me.
This is about a year ago.
He said, we constantly go through the social media posts of our employees.
Always.
I check it out once a week.
Everybody who works for me.
And when I see red flags, I never tell the person that this is why.
You should wait two or three or four weeks to get rid of them.
I bet those employees never think about that.
And of course, I'm not going to tell you which fast food franchisee it is.
But the guy said, look, I don't need problems.
I don't need sexual harassment.
I don't need somebody who may make a racist comment in the workplace.
I don't need somebody who's disruptive, and I certainly don't need somebody who thinks that my business is miserable, yet people post all these things.
The employer right now is already reading them.
Do the people who are making these posts even imagine the thought process in which you go on Facebook and rip your boss.
You may as well walk right up to the boss and rip him to his face.
But the people who make that Facebook post don't think of it that way.
They think they're doing it in some sort of fake world, but instead of being the fake world, it's as real a world as we could possibly have, and you can't ever take it back.
And unlike conversations in which the only people who know what you say are the people who are listening.
If you're doing on social media, it is out there for the entire world to be able to retrieve forever, unless you're Hillary, who has probably gotten rid of her emails already.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
The uh story in the It's the current edition of The Economist, then yeah, February 28th to March 6th is on the cover, I guess that'd be last week's.
Long story about smartphones.
The remarkable penetration into the globe.
Half the people in the world will have one by 2020 if the current trends continue.
These apps that are created for the smartphone allow you to do things that never in the world would have been possible before, radicalizing our world.
Anyone who wants to make a comment on anything right now can Facebook or tweet it by grabbing their phone, which is always in your pocket, or you in the case of some people always in their hand, and it's instantly out there.
Instead of waiting forever and ever and ever, hoping to meet Mr. Wright or Ms. Wright, you can go on Tinder, use your Facebook profile, make a bunch of swipes and hope somebody's willing to swipe you back, and the next thing you know, since it's a geography-based app, and if you live in a large metropolitan area, 30 minutes an hour max, you meet that person.
They always say, What's the next big big thing?
This is transformative.
And I don't know that we've fully grasped any of it yet.
You you have companies that no one's ever heard of that suddenly are worth billions of dollars.
Salt Lake City, Aaron, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Well, hey, uh I I completely agree with what you're saying.
There are a lot of uh unintended consequences of social media that we don't know and that we haven't explored, but to keep it specific with Tinder, uh, in particular, my brother, he's a second grade teacher, and he doesn't have the opportunity to get out.
I work at a bank.
I can I met my fiance at the bank.
He works with second graders all day long and with women all day long.
Some people may think that's a good thing, but for him, at the end of the day, he's worn out and he doesn't feel like going to a bar, and he doesn't feel like going, you know, he doesn't feel like going to a club.
So for him, uh, we actually signed him up for Tinder, and he was so angry with us, he was so mad because my brother's gregarious, he's handsome, he's talkative, but he's a little bit shy when he first meets someone.
So Tinder was a great opportunity for him to be able to meet women.
So has he embraced it?
Yeah, he has.
And and we didn't know.
We thought he was gonna blow it off, but what he ended up doing, we found out he was posting pictures.
So he's so he's met people.
I don't want you to out your brother completely here, but is he using it mostly to hook up, or is he using it to meet someone to date and develop relationships?
That's a great question.
He he's not that guy.
I mean, he he's the guy that wants to meet, develop a relationship.
He's a little bit older, he's in his early 30s.
How many people would you say he actually physically and so he wants he wants companionship?
Aaron, Aaron, uh, how many people would you say that he's physically met in person off of Tinder so far?
That he's told me zero because he wouldn't tell me anything anymore.
But I think he's had a couple dates as a result of it, and where it goes, he controls that.
But you're not going to be able to do that.
Well, there is the user does ultimately have control.
You are right about that.
Thanks for the call, Aaron.
My name is Mark Belling, I'm sitting in for Rush.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh today.
Rush will be back tomorrow.
So far on today's program, I've taken two themes, and I think they actually, in a weird way, are sort of related.
In the first hour of the program, we spoke about Hillary Clinton never setting up the email account, now going through the long process of evasion, denying, deleting the normal Clinton scandal, which in six months will lead to her saying the questions have been answered, this is old news.
Why do you keep bringing it up?
In other words, a woman trying to keep anyone from finding out anything that she's actually doing.
In the meantime, the rest of our society is embracing smartphones, which allows us to live our lives in as public a way imaginable.
Right to the point of meeting one another.
You publicly lay yourself out there that I'm interested.
That's what Tinder is.
Someone responds to that instantly, and you hook up your relationship.
There's probably a digital footprint somewhere, even of that.
Hillary, first of all, isn't living her life the same way that anybody else is living that.
And with regard to the smartphones, we are changing the way we are living.
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